The Student Press Law Center reports Friday that as many as 6,000 copies of this Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, have gone missing - that issue contained news and photographs of the NCAA national championship that the UNC Tar Heels won in men's basketball the night before. The newspaper, which is distributed at no cost to the reader, has shown up in various places for sale - like eBay - but how to tell which of those copies were acquired legitimately, even by students, is the question.

Seems a bit shady to be selling mass quantities of a free paper for its collectible value, though I'm sure the rules of capitalism would be claimed by any of the culprits. As someone who only has three (yellowing) copies of the one above-the-fold story I had during my college career, I can definitely feel for the students who didn't get a copy of the paper.