Criminal Justice, Class 13

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[OOC: Rory will post grades through the first test in the comments at her leisure. The inspiration for the evaluations come from a bunny-related incident at the zoo. CJ couldn't keep her monologue internal. Not her fault. :) Mun's head is freaking killing him as he's typing this up. Don't expect anything too elaborate today. Class Info Link.]

*Tick is sitting at his desk. He has a strange look on his face. If you glance at the desktop, you would see a completed Rubik's Cube and might recognize a sense of victory in Tick's gaze. If you looked more closely, you might be able to tell that he has been pondering something just a little more than is probably good for him. Possibly something that makes him question his Destiny at this school. It doesn't look like he's mopey about it, though, just pondery. Yes, "pondery."*

Hello, students! Today Rory will be putting up a grade sheet. These are the grades of students that made it to the test, and them alone.

And because it's only fair that if you get a status report, I should get one as well, I went ahead and whipped up a teacher evaluation. Please get these in by Friday, chums. They're anonymous to Tick, but not his mun, so be honest!

Now to today's topic.

( Class 13 )

Morning Announcements

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"Good morning, students. Here are your announcements for October 25th, 2005.

* Congratulations to M. Parker, the new Academic Affairs Officer in Student Council.

* Locker 327 is dealing hands of Texas Hold 'Em. It is reported that it is holding all the good cards, though.

* Parents' Weekend is coming up. Please make sure that all appropriate arrangements have been made ahead of time for your parent/guardian.

Thank you, and have a safe, tobacco-free day."

Science Club - After Classes 10/25

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Lisa opens the labs with Jonathan. They each have brought their badly mangled, but pieced back together battle bots from last week if anyone dares to challenge them. Lisa also added a hammer of doom to her bot. Just sayin'

"Hey everyone, I know we met on Thursday last week, but with Parents Weekend coming up I thought we should move the meeting for Tuesday and see how it goes this week. Thanks for making it."

She sets up an additional lab station with a new experiment for anyone who wasn't too into the bots last week, just in case.

The meeting is open to new members as well, who want to play battle bots with me and JC-diz-ogg zomg! so fun! impress their parents with an academic extra-curricular this weekend.

Shop Class #3

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac is sitting in his chair as the students file in.

"I hope you remembered your homework today, because that's the only way you are going to pass today's assignment."

[OOC: You were to come up with a method of making a smokescreen. Please post your responses in my comment(s) below]</small]

Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

( 201--Speech )

*****************************************

( 301--Friendship )

Library Open 10/25

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Methos unlocks the library and settles behind the counter. "And the reaction to Special Collections reopening is... apathy," he mutters to himself.

There's a stack of books that need to be cataloged then stickered with "Dangerous" stickers as needed. Methos sits down and begins reading the texts to identify them and catalog them. Methos sips his morning coffee from this mug (minions are encouraged to fill said mug).

[OOC: We are actually going to put together a list of what has already been cataloged in Special Collections, based largely but not entirely off the Invisible Library. If you need a specific book (or a book that has specific information), please let the library staff know and we'll pull it out of a plot hole see if it is in the uncataloged stack.]

Ash's Art Appreciations, Studio Session #10

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*Ash is nowhere to be seen in the classroom, however, there is a basket of disposable cameras sitting on his desk, and instructions written on the chalkboard*

"Sorry knuckleheads, urgent business. Take photos. At the next lecture, please turn in the one photo you consider 'Art'. Thank you."

Biology

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Greetings, everyone. Please stack your reports next to the roll sheet. Help yourselves to the snack, God knows I won't eat them all.

Today, we will begin discussing human endocrinology.

The essence of multicellularity is the coordinated interaction of the various kinds of cells that make up the body. Cells communicate with each other by chemical signals.

Three kinds of chemical signaling can be distinguished:

autocrine - the cell signals itself through a chemical that it synthesizes and then responds to. Autocrine signaling can occur solely within the cytoplasm of the cell or by a secreted chemical interacting with receptors on the surface of the same cell

paracrine - chemical signals that diffuse into the area and interact with receptors on nearby cells.
Examples are:
The release of cytokines that cause an inflammatory response in the area.
The release of neurotransmitters at synapses in the nervous system.

endocrine - the chemicals are secreted into the blood and carried by blood and tissue fluids to the cells they act upon.

Journalism Class - Tuesday October 25

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This morning, all the newsfeeds are off, for a change, and Spider appears to have made a concerted effort to get rid of the amphibians that have been haunting his desk and the dark corners of the classroom. The cat looks very round and roly-poly and self-satisfied and is lurking sleepily beneath the cappucino machine in the back of the classroom in the newspaper section, so perhaps it was she who did the cleanup.

Spider is leaning against his desk, arms folded and, for a wonder, not smoking.

"Good morning, class. Today we are going to have a guest. I'd like you all to be polite and respectful to Professor Dream in thanks for his agreeing to spend time with us and aid the class with today's exercise. I'd also like to welcome any of Professor Dream's students who are with us here today. Please try to keep any chatter for after class, as the exercise is one of human observation."

Spreading his hands, he continued. "Professor Dream is going to share with us all an event. You will be given a short time to think about what you saw and then each of you will be required to write a short piece on what happened. Please include any observations, no matter how apparently inconsequential, and turn in your papers before discussing the exercise amongst yourselves. This is vitally important as tomorrow's exercise will be for the class to go over all the descriptions in an attempt to piece together the most accurate picture of what was witnessed."

Spider smiled broadly. "This exercise has a very specific point, so please concentrate on your own impressions, however vague or uncertain. And now, I should like to turn the class over to Professor Dream."

Languages Classes 10/25

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Good morning.

First, two announcements: There will be no class on Thursday. Use the time as you wish, and have a pleasant weekend. I may have family visiting myself. Also, I will be in Professor Jerusalem's journalism class today, discussing perceptions and reality. I hope to see some of you there.

Languages of Europe: I am told this class may make some of you hungry. We are going to study the Spanish vocabulary for food. As homework for Tuesday, find and translate a recipe for something you like to eat.

Cat: Miss Kiki and Jiji were kind enough to be special guests last Thursday. Please remain in human form today and discuss what you learned from Jiji.

Next Tuesday, we will have a visit from Professor Jerusalem's cat. Some of you may find her appearance rather startling, but it should not change the essence of her language.

Open Sociology Lab 10/25

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Grissom opens the lab a little late, which is unlike him. He's got a bottle of water and looks a little sick.

Some of his students seem to be interested in toxicology, so he puts up a presentation on using an immunoassay (biochem testing) - making a wide variety of materials and equipment available for simple tests, including this interesting test case for the students to perform if they wish.

He also has a display of these examples.

(no subject)

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I vuoold leeke-a tu unnuoonce-a zee veenners frum yesterdey's cuntest!
( Druuum Rull Pleeze )

Cungrets yuoo tvu! Schneetzel und myselff ere-a pruood.


Tudey's loonch is:

-Hut Chuculete-a

-Cuukeees

-Toorkey

-Meshed Putetues

((I know, it's quick today. But there's snow! Weee!))

Cookery course is still open.

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

There is a note on the door of the professor's classroom/kitchen.

Cookery Course Seasonal Skills Today, a special session on cutting, carving and scooping.

The professor's construction platform wheezes to a halt outside the window of his room. The professor steps from the platform, through the window and onto the countertop. He leaps nimbly from there to the floor. The frogs are nowhere to be seen -- play has yet to commence for the day.

He reaches through the window and drags a large cardboard box from the platform through onto the counter. He presses a couple of buttons on the remote, and the platform recedes into the distance once more.

He collects a handful of knives, in a variety of sizes, including one which is curved and scooped -- almost like a spoon with a blade. He sets these down on the table. From a cupboard somewhere, he produces a small box of candles.

He drags the cardboard box to the edge of the counter and then eases it down onto the floor, after which he slides it across the room towards the table. He opens the top of the box, and produces a pumpkin, about a foot across. The box is easily large enough to contain a dozen more. He wrinkles his nose in distaste.

Just so long as no-one makes me eat any pie made from this thing. Or soup.

He selects a pointed knife, of medium size, and taps the blade speculatively against his teeth as he studies the surface of the pumpkin.

Study Hall -- Tuesday, October 25th

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Sarah sits at the front desk occasionally glaring at the notebook and stack of papers at the far edge of the desktop. Instead of the constant scribbling she's been doing for days, she's got a deck of cards and is shuffling them over and over again out of boredom. She's horribly tempted to go out and play Texas Hold 'em with Locker 327, but she doesn't trust the fucking thing enough. Or, you know, at all.

Independent Study Meeting

[swerval_zero]

*over the loudspeaker* Attention, please? The Independent Study group will be meeting outside Locker 327 after classes end. We will not be playing Texas Hold 'Em. Thank you.

( The Meeting )

Introduction to Western Literature, Lesson One

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Tuesday, October 24, 1:00PM FST

[Professor Chaucer is sitting on the instructor's desk, which has been pushed back against the wall. Once everyone is seated, he addresses the class.]

( Welcome to Introduction to Western Literature )

Celtic Studies classes for Tuesday

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Camulus is looking thoughtful this morning, and all traces of his earlier pissiness and chocolate addiction seem to have dissapated. The moose head is looking almost rakish this morning. A poster advertising the La na Gaidhlig on October 29th is hanging on the wall, including information on a Gaelic play, a ceilidh, and a milling frolic. All in Gaelic, of course.

"Feasgar math, class." He sighs. "There are only two students left in my Gaelic class. As such, I will no longer be holding regular classes, but will offer Gaelic tutorial to any interested students. This is open to any students in the school, not only my current student roster.

"That said, on to Arthurian Traditions.

"Last week Ivanova was kind enough to share her own experience with the living Arthurian legend and I asked you to think of some other instances where Arthur has been literally or figuratively resurrected to deal with crisis. For today's class I'd like you to share these stories and we can discuss them. I'd also like to hear your suggestions for a class display for Parents Weekend." He glares around at the class. "I want to hear everyone participate. Potter, Halliwell, Scissorhands, Adama, Belthazor. The only one of you to actually consistently show up is Angelus."

[[Saturday really is Gaelic Day, so I will be atttending a play, a ceilidh, and a milling frolic. I had hoped to do something with my Gaelic class and realised that I had no students.]]

Office Hours - Tuesday 25.10

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Charlie's alternating between solving sudoku puzzles and finishing up the lesson planning for tomorrow. The door is open though, for anyone that might want to visit or is just bored.

Open Lab -- Biology, Geology, Physics

[equalsmcsquared.livejournal.com]

*Any students who require tutoring, making up assignments, or taking missed examinations can do so now.*

*Sara is seated at her desk, grading papers.*

Flight Club meeting (after Comparative Religions class)

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Anakin stood outside the Flight Club shed and waited for the rest of the club to arrive. When they had, he cleared his throat and used the Force to amplify his voice over the chatter of the crowd.

"Today we're going to get to fly Senator Amidala's Baby." He smiled. "Some of us will be actually breaking atmosphere and flying the real thing. I'll be taking the first four students with real-time space flight experience who come up to me over to where the Baby's docked outside of town. The rest of you will get the try it in the flight sim, which has been programmed with the specs for a Naboo Royal Starship. It flies a lot differently than the Starfighter we tried last week--there's more mass to it, so it has a slower reaction time. There also aren't any weapons on the Baby, as it's a diplomatic vessel rather than a combat-equipped one."

He gestured at Cally. "Cally, one of our resident mechanical geniuses, is going to be manning the flight sim today. Try not to push all of the buttons and jam it up when you're flying it--it'll make both of us cranky."

He looked down at his notes. "For Parents' Weekend I've let the Student Council know that the flight sim will be open so you can show off your skills to anyone who might be coming. They'll also be welcomed to try it."

He folded up his paper. "That's it for now, unless you have any questions. Oh--I'm putting out a piece of paper for suggestions of aircraft programs to include in the sim--I don't want to keep using crafts that only I'm familiar with--it's not fair to the rest of you. Thanks!"

[OOC: Let me set up some anal-retentive comment threads before you come play.

ETA: All set up. Yay!]

Greco-Roman Archaeology

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"Okay, class, we're continuing with our pre-Roman cultures.

Today, we're looking at the city of Cerveteri, which was originally known as Caere. It was on a defensible site, above a coastal plain. The first evidence of settlement of the site come from finds of urns at two areas (Cava della Pozzolana and Sorbo) from the 8th and 9th centuries BC. Trade with the Greeks at Etrusco became increasingly common in the middle of the 8th century BC with standardised urns and pottery common in graves of the time. The town became Etruria's main trading centre during the 7th century BC, as well as increasing trade with other Greek colonies in Southern Italy and Sicily, and with the Corinthians. Locally manufactured products began to imitate imported Greek pottery.

Burials of the time became increasingly grand and jewelry and other products were of particularly fine manufacture, illustrating the continuing good fortunes of the city. At the height of its prosperity in the 6th century BC, the people of Caere (with the Carthaginians emerged debateably victorious from clashes with the Phocaean Greeks. Following the "Battle of the Sardinian Sea", captured prisoners were stoned to death in the city, apparently resulting in a plague. In recompense, athletic contests were held every year in the city to honour the dead who were later buried.

Following this historical violent outburst by the people of the city, trade once again flourished through the 5th century BC, partly in spite of the difficulties affecting Etruria during the period. Arguably, this is due to the paricularly good relations with Rome, a traditional ally.

In 253 BC, Caere allied to the Tarquinii lost a war with Rome and with it some of its territory, including the coastal area and ports so important for trade. With this loss, the area lost its wealth and power completely by the first century AD.


Now, homework. I want you to either pick Magna Graecia or the Latins, which are the two other pre-Roman civilizations. I'll chose one from each option to give a brief report to the class on Thursday, so we can go on and actually get to the beginning of the Roman civilization. Any questions?

Introduction to Political Science

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Today's topic is: Sovereignty.

What is your definition of it? Can you please give me some examples? How about examples of compromised sovereignty?

*looks over the class expectantly*

Comparitive Religions

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Some people say that Judaism is the Mother of all religion.
Some people say that it is an antiquated form of a discounted and senseless religion.

What do you know of this faith, and what are your own opinions?

*is sitting by the window today, in a long white robe, smoking his pipe*

Band Practice - Recruiting Attempt (join now, get a free Twinkie!)

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Band Practice Notice

A letter is delivered to each of the Band Practice students because Ted still hasn't figured out email.


"Okay Band Practice dudes. For now we'll try to recruit more people to the class. I've asked our TA dudette Lane to put up some flyers in the dorms. Ask your friends. Tell them I'll give them Twinkies. All they have to do is show up, practice and eat junk food.

Because some people have left, we're down to two bands - Pool of Leaves and Burning Record. If we get enough new people by next week, the third band can stay open. If not, we'll have to close down Blissfully Ignorant and Paige and Lindsey will have to go to one of the other bands.

Start recruiting dudes!

Professor Ted 'Theodore' Logan"


[OOC: That's an open invitation to any students wanting another class. It's easy. You show up, you learn how to play an instrument if you don't already know and you practice music with your band and talk and eat junk food. Easy credits people! Drop me a voicemail to join. Classes are from 2pm onwards on Thursdays (chronofluid, but the room is open for classes as of 2pm in-character time).]

Human geography #2

[notjustacabbie.livejournal.com]

There's a piece of string attached to the door handle. It took Keith days to find his way to the classroom last time so he's taken precautions.

'Today will discuss population demographics and specifically census studies.'

In human populations, biological, social, spatial, ecological and economic aspects of existence are inextricably linked, demanding a holistic approach to their study. Human populations can be studied using theoretical frameworks and methodologies from different traditional disciplines.

Read up on the approaches taken to conducting censuses here.

You should be able to understand the following:
( Data sources )

( Discussion/Homework )

Intro to Business

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Lorelai is sitting on her desk, drinking a cup of coffee.

"Since you all did so well on your quizzes, I'm giving you the night off. Grab a stack of handouts and read them before next week's class."

On the desk beside her are the graded quizes and a stack of papers.

"Oh, and don't forget to sign in for extra credit!"



[ooc: oops - mun got so excited about new canon that she forgot to post class!]

East Asian History - #19

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East Asian History
Tuesday 6:00-8:00 pm

There is a note on the door for East Asian History.

“One discussion question to have prepared for our meeting on Thursday.”

The Shang (c. 1750-1100 BCE) is an early dynasty (succession of rulers of same line of descent) marked by impressive bronze technology and the beginning of China's distinctive writing system. Name several elements found in Shang civilization that remain important throughout Chinese history.

"Please bear with me until we get into the rhythm of separate question posting and inclass discussion."

History of the Ancient World - #12

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History of the Ancient World
Tuesday 12:30-3:30 pm

Seimei comes in and gestures to the scroll displaying their discussion question for the week.

Discuss the political, economic, and social institutions characteristic of the governmental forms of the Aztecs.

“I would also like to discuss the possibility of dropping the class to meeting once a week to cover two discussion questions posted in the early part of the week and due in the latter.” He tapped his fan against his chin.

“Meaning - on next Monday I will simply post two discussion questions for you to have prepared for our meetings once a week on Thursdays. What is your opinion?”

(ooc: My apologies for posting so late. Real life has a way of intersecting.

Linguistics

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel is slightly distracted, as he gives his lecture on Ancient Egyptian's relationship to other languages

"There's no homework tonight," he says at the end, with a smile.