School Announcements, April 17

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The announcements are early with a vengeance today to make up for their total lack on Friday.

"Good morning, everyone, and I hope you had a happy Easter. In the interest of health and sanitation, please make sure to retrieve any and all weetiny Easter eggs you may find lying around before the weather warms up. As soon as possible would be best, as there is a vague possibility that a small handful of them might hatch into weetiny dinosaurs, in which case please report them to Doctor Oliver promptly."

"Ay-yi-yi, Zordon, that's not funny!"

"Shhh, Alpha. The following teenagers with attitude will report to the Command Center at some point today: Walter Dornez. Finally, this morning's video feeds indicate that the skeleton from the science wing has gotten loose and is now walking around in search of clothes and cigarettes. Please keep your dorm room doors locked, and bear in mind that this skeleton's original owner did succumb to lung cancer. And this concludes your obligatory Power Rangers PSA for the week. Thank you."

( OOC: note and credit )

Creature Languages, 4/17, Period 4

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There is candy and soda for the students, as well as herbal tea.

Dream waits for the students to assemble, then begins his lecture.

"Hello. Today we begin our study of the last animal language we will discuss this semester. It is one that may be perhaps closer to your own tongues than many of the others we have studied -- that of simians, especially monkeys."

Dream cues up a videotaped lecture in the DVD player. "This speaker makes the unfortunately common error of conflating monekys with apes, but it is still a reasonable discussion of the similarities and differences between the uses made of languages by simians, and those by man."

"I also have a handout containing a touch more information about monkeys, and a second handout about squirrel monkeys specifically, such as our own Mr. Nielson."

"Ask questions, should you have them."

Shop Class

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Sam was standing in the front of the room, her hands in the pockets of her jeans. "Um, hey, guys. So, Mac isn't back yet." She shrugged. "So, you're stuck with me for at least one more class. So sorry, please send any complaints to the administration."

She adjusted a few dials on the equipment, setting up the familiar junkyard. "So, today's project--use the materials you find here to make something that will make it easier for you to study for finals, or that you will give someone else to make it easier for them to study."

Speech Comm

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401--5th period

Your websites will be done Wednesday. Start inputing your data and code today, and oyu'll probably have to do some of it outside of class. Next week we'll finish up the majot concepts of information design, persuasion and power. Questions?

(no subject)

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Heppy Mundey stoodents! Ve're-a neereeng zee ind it seems. Boot reelly, yuoo cun cume-a tu my huoose-a und I'll meke-a yuoo sume-a fuud. I lufe-a tu cuuk. It is my leeffe-a.

Tudey's Menoo Is:

-Shreemp

-Creb Cekes

-French Freees

-Ice-a Creem

US History (Monday, April 19, 7th period)

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Josh was in a much better mood today. Too bad the subject of class was Prohibition and the Great Depression, huh?

"In 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, banning the sale of alcohol in the United States, was ratified." He raised an eyebrow. "Yeah. That didn't work. The law only banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of the stuff--not the possession or consumption--so Americans got creative. They made their own, they invented the speakeasy--a place where you had to convince the bouncer that you weren't a dry agent to get in--they had prescriptions written for the medicinal consumption of whiskey."

Josh paced around the room. "Heck, even the politicians who had voted for Prohibition had booze around: the President of the United States at the time, Warren G. Harding, kept the White House fully stocked. And because this law was so easy to get around, people began to lose their respect for all laws--not a great result. The 18th Amendment was repealed with the 21st Amendment in 1933. This example from history might be serve as a warning to current politicians about trying to legislate morality - " he shrugged, " - but that would require thinking, so probably not."

He looked down at his notes. "Now, onto the Great Depression. It was great, if depressing." He looked around the room. "Okay, that wasn't helpful, was it? People are still trying to figure out exactly what caused the Great Depression, or made it last so long, but most people at the time blamed the stock market crash beginning on Black Thursday, October 24 and continuing through Black Tuesday, October 29 for the initial recession, then go on to blame a decrease in international trade and a drought across the Midwest for prolonging it."

Josh ran a hand through his hair. "The point is, it was long, it was terrible, it was world-wide. In 1933, more than a quarter of the entire workforce in the United States was out of work--that this was the year Prohibition was repealed? Not such a coincidence. The government flailed for a good few years trying to come up with a way to stop the depression and finally came up with the New Deal through the general greatness that was Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

Josh went on to discuss the implications of the New Deal, pausing for gushing anecdotes on the coolness of FDR, before finally dismissing the class. "For those of you wondering, your final exam will be next Wednesday, April 26. Start flailing now, avoid the rush."

Quantum Physics, Period 5, April 17th

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"Sorry about missing class last Wednesday, docs, but there was this carrot so big you wouldn't believe it...! Oh, wait, you don't believe it? Probably a good move."

"Anyways, today we're talking about Isaac Newton and his first law." Bugs flipped the board (which was, for the record, a white board attached to the wall, but we're in a class that had been renamed "Cartoon Physics, so just go with it) over, revealing the following:

An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

"Usually, I call that unbalanced force 'Elmer' or 'Sam'," Bugs joked, spinning his index finger by his head in the international sign for "crazy." "In cartoons, this still applies. The only question is, when does an unbalanced force occur?"

( The answer. )

Library, Monday, April 17

[chasingangela]

After getting the message from Parker, Angela rushed to the library, coffee and cinnamon-raisin bagel in hand.

She settled in behind the collections desk with beverage, baked good, and the All-Music Guide open on her borrowed laptop. She still had five birthday presents to buy...

The library is open.

After 401

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CJ darted into her office to get some work taken care of for class when the phone rang. Without taking her eyes from the screen, she reached out to pick up the receiver...and picked up the whole phone.

She shook it.

She sat it down and pulled.

Then pulled harder.

The phone rang on and on until it finally went to her voice mail which she couldn't retrieve because some sneaky Connecticut ninja person had superglued her phone.

It wasn't Charlie. He wasn't around.

Echoing through the halls of the Humanities wing and then through the school, CJ's voice came at top volume as she stalked the halls.

"JOSHUA LYMAN!"

Paleontology, April 17th, 7th period

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On the table at the front of the room are several fossils.

"Today's assignment?" Tommy says. "Well... I've desperately been needing to do inventory for a while now. So I'm enlisting you guys to help me out. Sounds like fun, huh?"

Tactics of War, Monday, 6 - 8 PM FHT

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Any students arriving at the tactics classroom should find the following message on the door:

4/17: Tactics of War is being hosted at Admiral Harrington's residence, 28 Sphinx Street, between 6 PM and 8 PM. Please direct any questions or concerns to me.

See each of you this evening,
Admiral Harrington

Sociology Courses | April 17, 2006

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Sociology of Violence (2nd Period) / Sociology of the Paranormal (6th Period)

The lab is organized so that each student has a private work station at which to take his or her final. The final contains three sections - multiple choice on vocabulary, fill-in-the-blanks on history and concepts, and a short essay. It's of moderate difficulty, and there are no trick questions.

The exam is timed to be completed in one class period. Grissom also explains that extra time will be allowed with permission, but that students may not exit and re-enter the classroom once the test begins (allowances of course would be made for things like vomiting and evilweebunny attack.)

Any student not able to complete the exam today will be assigned a 10 page, researched and properly cited paper in lieu of a test, to be completed by the end of term. It should be submitted to a TA (Bel, Veronica, Cally, Lyta, or Paige) in a handwavey kind of manner so a grade can be received for their coursework and that so no one is punished for RL hiatus or brainfart.


[OOC: Give me two grades - exam grade, and final grade...
( ooc cont. )

Anthropology, 5th Period

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"Okay, guys. The Indian Caste system. Talk to me."

Jenny's Classes

[romanywitch]

A sign is up on Jenny's classroom:

"Classes are cancelled for today. Go to the library and work on your papers."