Re: [Pen-l] Brilliant: [All UofO Students] URGENT: GRADES HURT, END THE PAIN, TOMORROW

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

a few years ago, I had a student stagger into one of my classes
looking extremely hungover and possibly still drunk. He staggered out
before class ended, after having turned bright green.

2009/3/17 Perelman, Michael <MPerelman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I always wanted to have my own university.  I would surround it with barbed
> wire & guards with signs reading “No one under 25 allowed.”  Young people
> would want to attend my school.
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> I would have a high admission fee, but send out diplomas with acceptances.
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> We used to have a drinking festival in Chico.  The town & school shut it
> down.  The festivities moved to St. Patrick’s day.  The school moved Spring
> break to include St. Patrick’s day to keep the students away at the time.
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> During the Drinking Festival, known as Pioneer Days – which helped Chico to
> earn its spot as the country’s No. 1 party school, I would get a very small
> group of students in my classes.  It was a wonderful experience.  Everyone
> there was interested in learning & not afraid to show it.   The rest of the
> year, classes are largely a form of advanced day care, even though many of
> the students are great people & I can get through to some of them.   It is
> that the university environment is deadening, compared to what it might be.
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> Michael Perelman
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> Economics Department
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> California State University
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> Chico, CA
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> 95929
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Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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