Oi-vey. This reporter should have received lower grades in his science classes (emphasis mine):

OVER the span of his college career, Andrew Lipovsky has taken summer courses at Pace and Columbia in New York, spent three semesters at Northeastern here, and then transferred across town to Boston University last year. While he has majored in business, he has incidentally performed a kind of science experiment, in which he has been the control and those four universities the variables.

The actual topic of the article (grade inflation/deflation) is a whole 'nother big topic I'm not ready to tackle right now.