Weird, Boing Boing says it's a hoax... then says maybe not:

Update: It's an April Fool's Day hoax. Shannon sez, "the student doesn't exist, that school is a Christian school (that doesn't teach a course on Hinduism), and it's hosted on a comedy troupe's site that's trying to promote it's new show, and their webmaster is spamming blogs with their story under a variety of fake names."

Update 2: The people who posted this deny that it's a hoax, deny the spamming. You decide.