No Mas Cell Phones!

Oprah Winfrey confiscated the high tech cell phones she’d issued to all the students at her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa after finding out only half of them passed their final exams. The phones, issued after a sex abuse scandal rocked the school last year, had loads of features and access to a cell phone chat service called MXit. A parent of one student told local South African newspaper Cape Argus, "They were all handpicked by Oprah Winfrey to attend her great school. It must have been so disappointing for her to see that only half of the girls passed the last quarter - all because they are spending so much time on that dreadful MXit."