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From: ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:32:14 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

On the subject of Strangest Professors, the ENTIRE chemistry dept. at GWC 
(Golden West college, Huntington Beach, CA), has to fit it quite nicely.

One of the stories the profs let us lab aides in on HAS to be made public...

Profesor X was teaching the "Intro to Chem" class one semester, and decided 
that he was NOT going to accept cheating in his class.  The problem was that
the class was a lecture hall with room for 300-450 students at a single time.
Pretty damned hard to catch folks cheating.  Soooo, he brought in his wife 
(VERY pregnant, and an actress in one of the local acting groups) and one of her
friends (also an actor) for the placement test that they have on the first day of 
class.  He had tem sit WAAAY in the back, and act just like they were students.  

Halfway through the test, he goes storming up one of the aisles, and all the way 
up to the nether reaches of the lecture hall.  (And he was STORMING!)  All the 
poor students are trying to be discreet about watching what he's doing.  He gets
next to the aisle his wife is sitting in, and SCREAMS "HEY YOU!  LADY IN THE RED
SHIRT!   I SAW THAT!"  And all eyes in the room turn towards his wife.  He then
begins to berate her for cheating, and having the gall to cheat in his class, and
on the Placement test too!"  Mrs. X (Who remember, is an actress), starts to cry.
Then he starts screaming at her to "GET THE HELL OUT OF MY CLASSROOM, AND NEVER
COME BACK!"

At this point, everyone in the room is watching her, and then she stands up to
walk out of the room, and EVERYONE realizes that he's screaming at some poor
lady who's six or seven months pregnant!   Prof X. then starts to rant at the
man sitting next to her (the friend) for "LETTING HER CHEAT", and that he
should "GET THE HELL OUT too!"

So now, on the first day of class, this crazy prof has thrown TWO students out
of his class, Without any mercy, and one of them was PREGNANT!

Needless to say, he didn't have any cheating problems that whole semester.


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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:2205 rec.skydiving:2286
From: shawn@ut-emx.uucp (Shawn Boyd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:33:12 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas

In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
>In <1992Sep12.210707.25004@news.columbia.edu> kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu 
 (Kenneth R Aron) writes:
>
>
>>	I don't mean to be a spoilsport by injecting a dose of
>>reality, but it's quite possible to survive a seven-story drop.
>
>All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
>way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
>from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
>
>--
>John Hawkinson
>jhawk@panix.com

 John,
 
 You've got to be kidding.  Why at the end of bungee cord, of course -- pre-
 ferably one that's considerably shorter than the drop.  If a bungee cord 
 isn't handy, try aiming for the nearest soft spot, spread eagle, and fall
 flat on your belly, face down.  I know some people (myself for one) whose
 general appearance might actually be enhanced by such an excercize.

 Seriously though...

 There is a story which I read on the inner jacket of a publication whose 
 name will go unmentioned about a woman who rode a streamer down and lived
 by aiming for a pond.  As it turned out, it was a sewage settling pond, 
 which added a good deal of humor to the story, given the fact that she lived
 and was essentially uninjured, except perhaps for her pride, and perhaps some
 minor temporary trauma to her olfactory organs.  So John, there's another way 
 to do it... jump in a sewage pond.

 Said publication has long since been discarded (new girl friend found it and 
 threw it out).  This was in a series of ad's for Timex watches.  Can anyone 
 substantiate this one for me?  This was in last December's, uh... "issue."

 I am also reminded of an interesting exercize you might try if you find 
 yourself going in.  This appeared some time ago annecdotally posted as a true 
 story here in this newsgroup.  I am paraphrasing from memory...

 (Wuffo) student: What if your parachute doesn't open?
 Instructor: I cut away and pull my reserve.
 Student: What if that doesn't work?     
          [Was this student by any chance a blonde? --SB]
 Instructor: I start to untie my shoelaces...
 Student: What does that do?
 Instructor: Nothing really, but it helps pass the time.

 Again, I'll have to ask for help on crediting that one.  I'm sure one of 
 the regular posters out there was closer to this one than I.  It rates up
 there with "breathing in freefall" in the FAQ.

 I guess that's about all I can offer on parachuteless jumping except that I'd 
 recommend starting off fixed objects at relatively low (very low) altitudes.

 Shawn Boyd
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 5 Sep 1992 04:51:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth Hanschka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) says:

>
>     I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
>studied very hard for it for about a week.  It was very difficult 
>and no one finished early.  As everyone was leaving, they observed
>the professor walk toward the steps and toss all the tests into the
>air.  He then pointed at the tests that landed on the top step and 
>proclaimed loudly "These are the A's".
>
>     Has anybody else had run-in's with these weirdo's from
>another dimension, or is the University of North Dakota got
>the monopoly on them?

I don't believe it, almost.  You have actually seen the famed Stairwell
Grading Method in use.  It's a legend at some schools, with its many
variations.  The classic version has the teacher standing at the top of
the stairwell, and dropping the papers.  The heaviest ones get the As.
I first heard about this from a Linguistics professor in Mississippi, by
the way.  So no, the grading formula has been around for a long, long time.
And no, you don't have the monopoly on weirdos - those are everywhere; I think
they're freeware.

[if I started listing all the weird profs I've run into, we'd be here for the
next month....]
R.M.H.

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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 7 Sep 92 15:10:47 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <1992Sep04.131142.10277@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
> 
>      I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
> studied very hard for it for about a week.  It was very difficult 
> and no one finished early.  As everyone was leaving, they observed
> the professor walk toward the steps and toss all the tests into the
> air.  He then pointed at the tests that landed on the top step and 
> proclaimed loudly "These are the A's".
> 
>      Has anybody else had run-in's with these weirdo's from
> another dimension, or is the University of North Dakota got
> the monopoly on them?
> 
> Jared "The only way I ever got an A" Dahl

I had Prof. Crossley for Introduction to COmputer Science at Monash University
here in OZ. He could not stand still to more than about 5 seconds. It was like
watching a tennis match.



Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:2181 rec.skydiving:2230
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:13:38 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:

>All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
>way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
>from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?

Short distances onto soft surfaces.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Stupid Cafeteria Tricks
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:35:09 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

During my sophomore year, Wilkerson Hall, our cafeteria, began
serving soft-serve ice cream.  The mistake they made was allowing
us to take it out of the cafeteria.  It was not uncommon to see
ice cream strewn up and down the tunnels to the dorms.  My roomies
and I performed some impact tests on a few dozen ice cream cones
by dropping them out of our windows onto a sidewalk.  We later 
decided that sugar cones were superior to regular cones because 
they exploded on impact.

My roommate also found it particularly funny to put peanut butter
and jelly on his bread before he put it in the toaster.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
From: polly@iastate.edu ()
Subject: Re: Symbols
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:47:20 GMT

We have a legend here at Iowa State about the Zodiac Symbol in the 
Memorial Union.  BAsically if you walk over it, you'll experience bad 
luck.  I've been over it couple times and nothing has ever happened to me

Paula 
polly@iastate.edu


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: kevin@netcom.com (Kevin Fong)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop--Acceleration of G, minus wind resistance
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 16:48:56 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:

>Here's a problem for anyone who's interested.

>How many stories high would one have to fall from before it didn't matter
>if you fell from any greater height? In other words, when to the Acceleration
>of Gravity and the wind resistance at a particular speed balance each other
>out?

>I suppose it would matter how much area your particular body exposes to 
>be resisted. So let's say, for the size and density of the average human 
>body.

According to a skydiving book I have, someone falling in the typical
freefall spread position will reach terminal velocity in approximately
12 seconds, after falling about 1485 feet.

-- 
Kevin Y. Fong              kevin@netcom.com
Los Angeles, CA
From: thrushea@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:52:57 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1992Sep04.131142.10277@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
> 
>      I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
> studied very hard for it for about a week.  It was very difficult 
> and no one finished early.  As everyone was leaving, they observed
> the professor walk toward the steps and toss all the tests into the
> air.  He then pointed at the tests that landed on the top step and 
> proclaimed loudly "These are the A's".
> 
>      Has anybody else had run-in's with these weirdo's from
> another dimension, or is the University of North Dakota got
> the monopoly on them?
> 
> Jared "The only way I ever got an A" Dahl

That's the oldest rumor in the books - the claim that profs graded
that way was rampant when *I* was in college in 1965.  If your
friend actually saw the prof do that, it's because the prof was
pulling friend's leg. Sounds like something I might do to my
students - except I'd expect them to get the joke.

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> | Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
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From: bets@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Beth Schwindt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: a survey for a class I'm in...
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:06:19 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

The following is a survey of Urban Legends on campus crime for a paper in a
class called American Folklore and Literature.

I appreciate any and all responses.

Beth

____________________________________________________________________________

Survey of Urban Legends on College Campuses

1)  What story/legend do you hear most often about crime on your campus?



2)  Who is most likely to tell these stories?


4)  Do you tell these stories?  If so, to whom?




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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 11:36:17 GMT

<HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Being a student at Penn State, we were amused by the policy that states
>that if your roomate commits suicide, you will automatically receive a 4.0
>GPA for the semester.


Thats an urban legend in a nearby news group !!!
You tell them its true that you have a suicide grading policy at Penn State ???



leon

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Subject: Re: Suicide 4.0? and Elevator Surfing
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:34:58 GMT

Looking thru the Miss. state handbook.. that is the case if your
roomate commits suicide, you get 4.0

chuck

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From: dunker@octel.com (Mike Dunker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:49:50 GMT
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.

In article <186v71INN1bu@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>It has been a very persistent rumor at U.C. Berkeley, that about 10 years
>(20?) ago, a frosh boy fell off a 7th-floor porch on Unit II's Ehrman
>Hall.  He fell onto the roof of a VW buggy in a TOTALLY intoxicated state,
>so that all his muscles were relaxed, so he walked away from the fall with
>only a few bruises.
>
>    Not surprisingly, Ehrman Hall is also where the University (surreptitiously)
>puts all the most rowdy students.
>
>

This actually happened.  It happened during the '85-'86 school year.  I
believe he was on the drug Ecstasy and fell (jumped?) out the window.  A couple
of my good friends lived across from him on 7th floor Ehrman, but I can't
remember his name.

What I heard at the time (but can't substantiate) is that the parking lot
was fairly empty, so he was lucky to "find" a car to land on.  I also heard
that his injuries were very minor (a broken rib or something).  I am also
pretty sure he did NOT walk away though...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
From: eap@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eric Perozziello)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:01:41 GMT

In article <PRATTA.92Sep13130323@marcus.rpi.edu> pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
>>
>>   All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
>>   way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
>>   from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
>>
>>   --
>>   John Hawkinson
>>   jhawk@panix.com
>
>Falling is the easy part. Landing is the problem. From what I have heard, the
>record jump without a parachute was over deep(?) snow, which broke the fall
>wothout causing serious injury. I imagine this would have to be done in a place
>where the snow is not very wet, and is not packed together so it will form a 
>crater and not fall in on the person.
>


A pilot in WW2 streamered into the ocean from 18,000 ft and lived.
From: Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:42:51 GMT
 <1992Sep04.130449.9178@rchland.ibm.com>  
 <1992Sep9.191406.26037@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <1992Sep9.191406.26037@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Hall.Moore@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore) writes:

> He
> survived without any permanant damage, but definitey disproved the `if you
> are relaxed, you'll be all right' myth.  Granted, he did fall on to a 
> concrete sidewalk.

There's a good deal of truth to the relaxation theory, although you'd
be silly to think that it would necessarily save you in a fall from a
window.  The truth is much more apparent in drunk-driving statistics,
which show that drunk drivers tend to get less badly injured (note: 
less badly injured - NOT uninjured) in driving accidents than their
sober victims. For statistic mongers, I apologize that I don't have any
on hand, but I have this info both from nurses who gave a presentation
on drinking and driving from my old school, and my father who is a
doctor at the emergency room of a large hospital.

And now back to the funny stories... =)

Jane Deering
fury.eyes@dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: Is there a PDP-11 (or 8, or...) Emulator?
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 11:31:00 GMT
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.

In <7264@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>Eh?
>	switch(codeword) {
>	case 0:
>	    ...
>	case 4095:
>	    ...
>	}

Will be a table lookup on many compilers. You might even code
this directly:

	psw = (func[codeword])();

Kristian
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.computers:13966 comp.unix.misc:3662
From: lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re:  The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 13:55:54 EDT
Organization: LORC Enterprises

liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
>         #include <stdio.h>
>         #include <stdlib.h>
> 
>         main()
>         {
>             puts("Hello World!");
>             return(0);
>         }
>    O.K. then, the above code put onto some machines say... RS/6000, some
> IBM PC or clone therof, Amiga, NCR Tower, Unisys 1100/2200, U6000, some
> CP/M machine, really anything with a K&R C or ANSI C compiler. Compile it
> and it will run. Please show us the code to do this on the above list of
> machines in assembler.

Ok, nit-pick mode <ON>

Firstly, the above code will break on Apollo Domain and Tandy 6000 (RS-6000,
yes??:-) :-)) because there is no stdlib.h on either.  A great number of
BSD systems also don't have a stdlib.h.  Leave out the #include <stdlib.h> if
you want a portability showcase, puts() don't need it. If puts() does need
it for some implementations of the C library, then use printf, which, on
nearly all implementations of the C library, doesn't.

This just shows the first effect of what I'm getting ready to say.  Or, in
other words, even the simplest program can be non-portable.

Nit-pick mode <OFF>

Flame mode <ON>

What am I getting ready to flame?  Operating system implementors, who decide
that it is a good Idea to combine a standard (HAH!) header file in with another
standard header file.  In the Tandy 6000's case, the stuff that would normally
be in stdlib.h (miscellaneous stuff, usually) is spread out amongst several
header files such as misc.h, sys/types.h, and others.  The C language is not
at fault at all, it is the implementors who refuse to see that they are causing
problems by being different....

Point of Flak (TM): There are no standards. C may be the most portable language
currently in existence, but it is still a pain in the butt to port C code
amongst 3 or four disparate platforms because of this sort of shenanigan that
the OS implemetor's pulled in either the header files or the libraries.  It
is not C's fault that it is badly implemented. Note this one fact: I *like* C!

Flame <OFF>, Steam Vented, Unwinding stack.

Why am I so pointed on this? Because I write code and port code between several
disparate platforms, including a 3B1, a T6K (Tandy 6000), a PDP 11/23, and
Apollo DN3500's.  So, I have System V Unix, System III Xenix, RSTS/E, and
Apollo Domain (which can be either SysVR3 *OR* 4.3BSD, depending upon the
state of the SYSTYPE environment variable.).  No bloody wonder I'm short-fused
today....

>  Liam Greenwood ------ liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz ------ Wanganui, N.Z.

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From: luke@modus.sublink.ORG (Luciano Mannucci)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: uNIX on tired iron FAQ
Date: 7 Sep 92 09:31:15 GMT
Organization: Modus srl, Milano - Italy

in article <1992Sep4.133517.13039@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, LOGIN@cbnewse.cb.att.com says:
> What about the Tandy 6000 and Microsoft/Tandy XENIX. It would run on 768K
> of memory.

My Tandy TRS80 model 16B *is running* on 512 Kb of memory.

luke.
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