Dead Professors and Tuition Refunds

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4 total messages Started by unknown Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:14

#1153

Author: unknown
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:14

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A friend of mine was taking at philosophy class at Purdue--something about
the philosophy of religion and how it related to successful living--only to
open the newspaper one morning and find the professor had thrown himself
under a semi on I-65.  Guess his living wasn't too successful.

The class was taught by TA's for the rest of the semester (this was about two
weeks in) and she didn't get a refund or anything like that.

Christine ;-)

Re: Dead Professors and Tuition Refunds

#1155

Author: Adam Levin
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:39

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In a similar vein, recently a guy at Simon's Rock of Bard College went
on a shooting spree the week before final, killing two. They sent the 
entire school home the next day! I wish I knew what happened there,
because if it was good, I can think of a few people here who can surely
be sacrificed for the greater good (insert smiley here for the humor 
impaired.) 

Adam "Hey, I know the president of Brandeis' Riflery Club!" Levin

Re: Dead Professors and Tuition Refunds

#1157

Author: David Iverson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:54

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Strangely enough, a friend of mine told me a totally unsolicited Professor
Suicide story this morning.  Basically, a professor of his (many years ago)
had looked like shit all the way through the semester, really bored, heavy
on the coffee for morning classes and beer in hand for evening exams.  When
my friend got to the punchline about the guy committing suicide I just
blurted out, "So what was the University's Policy?!?"  But he said that it
was at the end of the semester and the guy had already written the final
exam.  Drat!

-David "morbid SOB ain't I"  Iverson


--
diverson@phys.ksu.edu

Re: Dead Professors and Tuition Refunds

#1162

Author: Dave Schaumann
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:45

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In article <C1ABJI.1L5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, durrant@mentor (unknown) writes:
>A friend of mine was taking at philosophy class at Purdue--something about
>the philosophy of religion and how it related to successful living--only to
>open the newspaper one morning and find the professor had thrown himself
>under a semi on I-65.  Guess his living wasn't too successful.
>
>The class was taught by TA's for the rest of the semester (this was about two
>weeks in) and she didn't get a refund or anything like that.

When I took an advanced calculus course, a few weeks into the semester,
the Prof busted up his ankle quite severely roller skating(!)

Anyway, for quite a few weeks, while he was recuperating enough so
that he could get around, we had some substitute guy.  I don't know
if he was a ta or what, but pretty much he rambled on for the whole
time on (to us, anyway) obscure and not terribly interesting properties
of the exponent function.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that was
his area of research...

Much to everyone's relief, when the regular Prof returned, he told
us we didn't need to know anything about that stuff.

-- 
Dave Schaumann			dave@cs.arizona.edu

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