Lack of funds for trip bugs professor

VIDEO Correspondent Bridget Smith reports on why a professor is being covered with cockroaches in a coffin. Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Our Lady of the Lake University professor Carey Guffey is going to creepy lengths to raise money for the college's Sigma Zeta Scientific Honor Society to travel to its national convention.

So far, Guffey has raised $400 -- that's one dollar for each of the 400 roaches he's had tossed on him as he lies in a coffin.

Watch affiliate KENS reporter Bridget Smith's report.

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