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From: peterd@polari.com
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:36:45 GMT

Segment falut core dumpred] we try again]

I wish to say that not all the bad proffs are
ESL types.  I had one who was living proof that
the US of A was fully capable of producing a
world class Gold plated Jack Ass with OAk leaf Clusters.

The college Iwas attending was a small one and the CS
department faculty was in number 6, with some of them
doing grad work at the Real Uniiversity Down The Road.

Daveo was made acting Dept chair for the year on the
grounds that if he wasn't, he hold his breath until
he turned blue.  In the short time that he 'ran' it he
nearly killed the program. Truely this man's arrogance
was only exceeded by his incompetence.  But enough - here's
my story.

I was retakeing the data base class from him (again, but
couldn't be helped) and the assignment was to develope
object diagrams for a DB program that tracked fleet usage
according to which senirity leves got to drive what
make of car, and keep track of the servicing of the vehicles.
Well, those of us who knew from autos knew also that to the 
motor pool, a car is parts with a service history.  Daveo
is browbeating one of the women students, attempting to
get her to admit that she's wrong (bad move boyo) and
pulls out The Big PutDown Quyestion "Have you ever been 
a Mechanic?" (Implications that she, being only a girl,
wouldn't Really Understand this Technical stuff.)  She,
however blew him away by saying "No, I was only a Mechanic's
Helper."  The stunned look on hius face was priceless,
I literally was biting my knuckles to keep from laughing
at the poor fool.

Oh well, some day I'll relate how he told her and her teammate
to 'knock off the project, you're making the other students
feel bad' [read that as "I haven't a clue as to what you're
doing and it makes ME look bad."] {Bozhimoi}

chus
pyotr
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 11:20:43 MST
From: <AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....

Probably the worst prof I have had in recent memory was Prof. C.H. Liu, from
whom I took Chemistry for Engineers.  Unlike many professors of foreign
extraction, you could actually understand what he said.  Unfortunately, his
writing on the board was completely incomprehensible.  In order to take notes
from it, you were forced to use a complex process involving spoken context
clues, word length, and patterns of ascenders (d,b,l,etc) and descenders (p,
g,j,etc).  Fun.  What was worse was his question-answering style.  I remember
during the first week of class a guy raised his hand, was recognized, and
asked a question.  The professor looked at him for a few seconds, said "Okay,
moving on..." and proceeded to do just that.  Just ignored the question.  I
stopped showing up to lecture.  I later heard from a guy in my recitation
(the faults of Prof. Liu being a very popular conversation topic) that when
he would answer a question about something he had said, he would do it by
repeating verbatim what he had said the first time.  No explanation, no
annotation.  And to top it off, the consensus was that his test questions
had nothing at all to do with what was emphasized in class.  And it showed.
After the second test, grades were posted.  Out of the 106 people who hadn't
dropped, my 58.6% placed me 33rd.  He had set 55% as passing: TWO-THIRDS of
the class was failing.  Bad.  Even on the final: my 100 out of 200 was 20
points above the class average.  Very scary dude.  Unfortunately, he is tenured

and, until a policy change this semester, not subject to student evaluation.
Oh well.

David Hungerford AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET  My opinions are mine.
From: grs01153@stat.appstate.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Flame topics
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:33:27 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University

AMEN!!!!!!

(to whoever said that flamewars about frat boys being degenerates are not
enlightening the masses--we already KNOW that!!)

just kidding guys...if that hurt, just remember what my grandma always said


"The truth only hurts if it ought to...."

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From: tim@ais.org (Tim Tyler)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Organization: UMCC
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 06:15:28 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.170927.12262@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>And what of those people who don't have cordless phones but happen to
>be talking to people who do?  Regardless of the legality of it, it's
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  the actual
legality of a matter is ALL an attorney should care about.

>extremely unethical to intentionally eavesdrop on someone's conversation
>when they reasonably believe that it's private.
  
   As I believe someone else attempted to point out to you, the courts
(Supreme Court) determined several years ago that cordless phone users have
no reasonable expectation of privacy.  Besides that, if you preach ethics,
you'll never make a good lawyer!

>-- 
>Ted Frank          + "Question whether attorney's filing claim for 'stud fee'
>1307 E 60 St, #109 +  as countersuit to paternity action was improperly
>U o' C Law Skool   +  motivated required remand."  Headnote 9, Committee on
>Chi, IL 60637      +  Legal Ethics of WVa State Bar v Douglas, 370 SE2d 325.


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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:37:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.191256.1@stat.appstate.edu> grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes:
>What is the most unusual pet you have known of or kept in a college setting (ie
>dorm, apartment, office, steam tunnel, whatever...)???

I once lived in a suite with Steve "B.F. Chewbacca" Hatch.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: re:fraternities
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:25:30 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Apr3.015939.9975@news.iastate.edu>, mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker) writes:
> In article <1992Apr1.204828.4724@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>> [previous junk deleted]
>>be elitist, It's guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and in the 
>>American constitution. You may say we are sexist; we are. On the other hand,
>>so are sororities, and many women's groups. Once again we have the right to 
>>exclude whoever we want.....[more junk deleted]
> 
> 	This is not true.  I read almost a year ago in TIME that frats
> had been challenged on this matter -- they lost. [Or something
> happened to make them do what the next paragraph says.]
> 
What was that something? In which edition of Time? What was the name of the
article? I could say the same thing, except state that the greeks won, but
without proper references, I'm going to have a hard time making myself heard.

> 	If you were in tune with your own greek system you would know
> that some frats and sororities have removed the all male/female rules
> and that they have had limited cases of women joining frats.

Not on my campus, nor on any other I have heard of, nor has it been mentioned in
any Greek publication I have ever heard of.
> 
> 	On another note, why have the frats gotten rid of the Little
> Sister programs?  Because from what I heard, too may little sis's were
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        
> getting raped by their big bro's.

If you'd bothered to read my last posting ( or if it had gone through your 
thick skull), you'd have noticed that one of the main points of the post was 
that YOU CAN'T USE RUMOURS AS EVIDENCE! THEY CAN BVE MADE UP BY ANYONE, AT
ANY TIME ABOUT ANYTHING!
> 

> 	Remove alt.folklore.college from the heading.
> 
If you are going to flame me on this group, I'm going to reply on this group.
I started this thread on this group, I'll finish it on this group. If you want
yo conduct this email, fine, but don't expect me to stand by quietly while you
flame me whenever you want. It isn't going to happen.
Mike
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From: opie@nmt.edu (Craig Copelin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: CHINCHILLAS!!!
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:34:50 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

In article <odsr=jq00awUA1Y1F=@andrew.cmu.edu> cm0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig Arno Mrusek) writes:
>
>	Yep, a good friend of mine my freshman year had a chinchilla.  Everyone
>agreed that it was definitely one of the most unusual pets they were
>likely to encounter.  It was cute as hell,  and a real blast to play
>with.
>
>							-Craig

   A girlfriennd of mine had one in her room.  Coolest pet in the dorm.
and super smart too.  The Ra's even liked it.

-Craig

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From: riffraff@eldalonde.endor.cs.psu.edu (Edward M Howard)
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:10:51 GMT

	Gad Dafni.  The name strikes fear into the hearts of all CmpSc
students here.... Gad is a big Israeli guy, with a very thick accent.
Gad seems to speak PDP-11 assembly with much greater fluency than 
english.  The man can glance at four pages of code, and within a minute
understand what you were trying to do, and tell you exactly what corrections
need to be made.  However, after half an hour of rambling, he still cannot
explain why his code works and yours doesn't.  You end up spending a pretty
sizable hunk of time going back and forth between the two printouts, until
you've worked it out for yourself. 

	Gad's inability to make himself understood was generally annoying,
but occasionally amusing.  My personal favorite was the quote I put in
my sig...  frequently when discussing debugging, Gad would say something
to the effect of "Weeelllllll (yes, there were about a dozen L's in
there when he said it...), if your programme runs in to difficulties,
just take a dump."  I don't think Gad ever did figure out while people 
chuckled at this....


--
Ed Howard				-"If your program doesn't,
riffraff@endor.cs.psu.edu		-work just take a dump."
EMH105@psuvm.psu.edu			-Lord Dafni
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From: kaszeta@pacific.cps.msu.edu (Richard W Kaszeta)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:57:08 GMT
Reply-To: kaszeta@pacific.cps.msu.edu (Richard W Kaszeta)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: kaszeta@pacific.cps.msu.edu

Here at Michigan State University, we have both types of buildings- the
older ones named after dead people and the newer ones named after department.
The old buildings are where it gets bad. There is Chittenden Hall,
which on the building itself says "Entomology" and houses some of the
Econ department...
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,soc.women
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:19:12 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Apr12.171608.13444@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> In article <1992Apr12.122345.4988@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes
> (in response to the argument that men are much more dangerous to women
>  than women to men):
>>Wrong. Women may not have the upper body strength, but they can do plenty of
>>damage to a man's life. Go watch Fatal Attraction if you don't believe me.
> 
> Why is it that frat-boys complain about people (who don't even mention the
> movie) using stereotypes from "Animal House," and then pose a bogus argument
> like this?
> -- 
What in the name of the Lord does this argument have to do with Animal house?
Further, I didn't say that women used this tactic, I simply stated a way in 
which a woman could (if she chose) damage a man's life

let's try some word association...
Amimal house...
Ted Frank...
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From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr7.202909.1@stat.appstate.edu>, grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes...
>A NEW QUESTION!!!   A NEW QUESTION!!
> 
> 
>Tell us about your profs..best, worst, weirdest.

	Still can remember a course in Atomic Physics which everyone referred
	to as "Atomic English"

	o Prof gave a 10 minute quiz first thing every day.

	o Day 1 I got 1/3 off for not leaving a blank line between the
	  title of the day and the start of text.

	o Day 2 I got 1/3 off for not centering title properly.

	o Few days later I got 1/3 off for using a ";" when I should have
	  used  ":".

	o Toward the end of the class, question came up describing a re-
	  searcher doing radio-carbon dating and losing some of the sample,
	  and asked, "will this make the sample seem older or younger?"
	  Nobody knew answer, everybody flipped a coin, then bs'd their
	  way thru it. Later analysis showed that scores had absolutely
	  no dependancy on weather you guessed right or wrong.

+---_      Frank R. Borger - Physicist     Internet:  Frank@rover.uchicago.edu
|__|_)  Michael Reese  - Univ. of Chicago  Phone : 312-791-8075 fax : 567-7455
|  | \ _  Center for Radiation Therapy
|     |_)   2929 South Ellis Avenue        Bachelor; A man who never made the
      |_)   Chicago, Illinois 60616        same mistake once!
From: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Having fun with the campus tour-groups
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:13:41 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: Univ. of Florida, Psychology Dept.

commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
>"...I made it a point when approaching a tour group to suddenly switch 
>the conversation and say something, as we were passing the group, 
>about rats in the cafeteria or roaches in the rooms."

One of the favorite tour locations at UF is the Plaza of the Americas. The
tour leader usually makes some remark like, "This is where all the hippies/
freaks/deadhead/radical types hang out." The radicals et al. usually let
these remarks slide, but not always.

A friend of mine had some posters of Malcolm X printed up, and was handing
them out to whomever would take one, when he noticed a tour group headed
towards the plaza.  (This was in 1986, before X's current surge in popularity)
I joined the group, and my friend jumped up on a bench where the group
stopped.  "It's Malcolm X's birthday today, so while your tour-guide tells
you about the plaza here, I'm going to hand out these posters....anybody
want one?"  "Sure," I said, "I'd like one!"  I reached out and took a 
poster.  There was some unhappy grumbling from some of the parents, but
most of the high-school kids took one. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is
where little Sam and Suzie are going to spend the next four years of their
lives.... 

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From: rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Randy M. Rohrer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam tunnels
Keywords: lies lies lies
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:30:56 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond


	"Tunneling" (as it is called) was a very
popular sport at Penn State in the early '80s.
I can only assume that it is still popular.
While I can not attest to being a veteran tunneler,
many of my friends were. They had the whole campus
mapped out. There were even ways of getting into
buildings from the steam tunnels (read dorms of the 
opposite sex!). They were chased by campus police on
many a night and eventually caught. 

Rumor has it that Joe Paterno grows linebackers by
administering waters of the underground blue/white 
spring that can only be reached via the steam tunnels.

Are there any current or former PSU tunnelers out there?

Randy Rohrer
PSU '83

(About that underground spring.... I made that up....
 but maybe, just maybe.......                        )


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From: michael@pilikia.pegasus.com (Michael Yokoyama)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Ho'onanea means WHAT??
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:12:14 GMT
Organization: Pilikia, Honolulu

Only two blocks away from the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, there is
a street whose name in Hawaiian means "relaxation after sex".....  Next time
you visit Honolulu, look for it on the "ewa" side of UH, running perpendicular
between Metcalf and Dole Streets.
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: still more practical jokes
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:57:30 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sorry about the typos in the last 2 posts. My editor is going haywire, and it 
is almost impossible for me to catch 'em all ;-)
M
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: disaacs@aaron.carleton.ca (Dave Isaacs)
Subject: Re: Prof.'s accent blunders documented
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:35:16 GMT

A handout for a computer assignment once instructed the students to:

  "tranfer the files to your hard dic"

Whoops!


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From: michaely@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Michael Yokoyama)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re:  Prof's accents
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:32:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr17.173256.994
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Perhaps the worst Professors' accent I've heard of was a JAPANESE one.  (No,
this is not a Japan-bashing post).

First of all you have to remember that the Japanese syllabery only has five
vowels ending with AH, EE, OO, EH, OH.

Well this one professor at Earlham College was a visiting professor from Japan.
He had a strong Japanese accent which prevented him from pronouncing the word
"can't" properly.  Instead, for the vowel sound of eeh, he kept on
unconsciously pronouncing it "AH" just like in Japanese.  "I cAHn't explain",
"I cAHn't do that", etc.  So every time he said "can't" with his prononciation
the girls in his Art class would titter.....

This is a true story.....
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From: dcw@cs.columbia.edu (David Chaim Worenklein)
Subject: Re: ZBT Registration Scandal at CUNY...
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:50:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.013136.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Aaron Dickey) writes:
>...Besides, even Zionist Bank & Trust couldn't afford to buy their
>grades  here.

I've never heard of Zionist Bank & Trust. Where is its main branch?

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From: mdbomber@w6yx (Matt Bartley)
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:15:45 GMT

kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>	I saw the silly ol' quarter-mile thing today.  A friend at MIT
>told me he's been told it's the longest *straight* corridor in the
>world.  Somehow, I doubt this.  Anyone got facts?  Anyone got a
>definition of "straight"?  Anyone got a longer corridor I should visit
>wearing Rollerblades?

>	Aren't LINACs much longer?  They're certainly corridors if
>you're an electron.  In fact, at the speed of light, they'd seem
>infinitely long!

The linear accellerator here at Stanford is in a cluster of buildings that
form an impressive 2 mile long corridor.  I've never been able to get into
one end of it and look all the way down, but I've been in the center of it.
It's plenty impressive there.

As stated before, as far as the particles being accellerated in there are
concerned, it is short, not infinitely long.

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From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: still more practical jokes
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:13:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Apr12.171342.13083
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1992Apr8.212456.4429@math.ufl.edu> PRODUCER%oak.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:

	[Fraternity stuff deleted]

Can you say subject line?
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