From the Independent
A student is set to be disciplined by her university after she was crowned “Britain’s Most Uptight Student” by a dating website – even though it is now reported that her "claim to fame" had been made up as a joke.
Elina Desaine, a Latvian-born student at Exeter University, won £500 in cash for her favorite charity and a year’s supply of communion wafers for her supposedly puritan habits – which, it was claimed, included keeping a “friendship list” of her “little old ladies” and praying with “up to three men a week”.
But now Desaine is being punished because her win “may cause reputational damage to the university”, according to a spokesperson for the University of Exeter.
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