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Drusilla is reading over last week's essays and growing increasingly angry. She glares at Cameron, then scribbles on an essay, then glares at Cameron again.

"Murder," she snaps, after everyone has signed in. "What drives one to murder another? Ignore petty questions of self-defense or euthanasia. This isn't an ethical debate. What causes one person to murder another? Is it insanity?"

"We're going to work on class projects. Joint class projects. This counts as your midterm grade." Drusilla looks irritated at the thought of handing out projects. "You're going to develop psychological experiments to be run on your fellow students." She thinks for a minute. "You should probably have their permission first, so do a permission slip. And don't hurt the little boys and girls ~~irreversibly~~. Don't run the experiment, though. That comes later, after your midterms have been approved ~~and the player gets OOC permission from the mods for you to do them~~."

She looks around. "Pair up. Cameron, you get to be partnered with whoever's left over, or if someone is out today. Then each of you discuss what you'd like to do, and write a 100 word proposal for your experiment. We'll talk about experimental design another time." Drusilla's smile was malicious. "And at that time, we'll introduce you all to ~~hell~~ statistical analysis."

Drusilla looks angry. "Cameron Mitchell. Vala Mal Doran. See me after class. Separately."

"Anyone who has missed a class essay needs to make it up or I'll start giving detentions for missed homework. This includes excused absences. If you'd rather not go back and look up what was missed, come and see me and we'll work out a special project for you to do to make up your grade."

Sawyer: C+ (failure to hand in essay, good participation)
Paige Matthews: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Bagoas: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Medusa: D- (failure to participate in discussion, did not hand in make up assignment)
Draco Malfoy: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Callisto: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Faith Lehane: A (good participation, ~~good understanding of the word yo,~~ well thought out essay)
Jessica Atreides: B+ (good participation, good essay)
Broots: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Teacher's Note: Multiple personalities? You obviously don't understand. (The A and has been stricken out and replaced with a C.)
Mystique: B+ (excellent essay, failure to add to discussion)
Jonathan ~~suck up~~ Crane: A (good participation, well thought out essay even if he didn't get the point)
Samuel Anders: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Wednesday Addams: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Jack Harkness: D- (failure to hand in essay, minimal participation)

Excused Absences (11/6/05):
Vala Mal Doran
Jack O'Neill
Oz

Unexcused Absences - Detention
Julian Sark - Is He A Cat Again?

OOC: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but things were insane, and I'm still driving my husband to and from the train station. That ends today, thank God. We can slow-play this as necessary.

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As usual, the sign-in sheet is on Professor Drusilla's desk. She doesn't look very happy today.

Discuss how you feel about murder here. Professor Drusilla listens to you all attentively.

Pair up, discuss your project, and decide what you're going to work on here.

Turn in your 100 word experiment proposal here. ~~Extra credit if your idea is very, very evil.~~

Come see Professor Drusilla about making up your work or doing a special project for make up (or extra credit).

Professor Drusilla doesn't look very happy.

Professor Drusilla still doesn't look very happy.

He made his bed, now he's got to sleep in it. Cameron tries not to look nervous as he approaches Drusilla.

"You wanted to speak to me, ma'am?" He tries to sound cheerful.

Jack attempts to be invisible as he signs in.

Jack looks around for someone to pair up with. He's still attempting to not be noticed by Dru.

Jack looks at the grade on his paper and groans. He's got to do some extra credit.

He glances at Dru, and tries to figure out a way to talk to her that doesn't involve talking to her. Sadly, even he is not that creative.

Figuring that CJ will exorcize him if necessary, he approaches the teacher. "Professor? I need to discuss extra credit."

Paige signs in trying not to look as worried as she is

"Professor I think I'm missing a piece of homework, the assigment following the week when ~~everyone went batshit crazy~~ we had to participate in class, it was about mental disorders I believe."

Paige walks towards Jack, "erm wanna partner? I promise Sawyer won't kill you and I've had an idea," she says

"I'm fond of not dying. What's your idea?"

"The effect of fear on memory, I'm thinking we'd have two groups, both have to learn say a list of words then repeat them to us, one group just does it, the other group gets told that for every word they miss out bthe receive some sort of pain or punishment." she grins, "I thought it was something the professor might like the sound of."

Anders signs in and quickly ducks toward a seat near the back of the room.

Anders looks around for someone to work with. Meantime, he fidgets and folds over the corners of all the pages in his notebook.

"Considering that I practically forget my own name whenever she looks at me... yeah, that sounds fantastic. But I don't know if I'm comfortable with threatening to hurt someone. Maybe if we scared them? Like get a big set of cymbals and crashed them together right before they were going to start reciting the list?

"And yeah, I imagine the professor would love it."

"Well we'd not actually do it, ee'd just make them think we were, so it would be anticipation of what was to come if they forget, so we could make the hypothesis that although the fear would make they want to get words right, the worrying caused by it would actually make them remember less, but if you're not comfortable with doing that then yeah your idea works too. I don't mind either way."

"Let's start developing it and see how it goes. I'm just a bit freaked on the subject of hurting people since I tried to kill Professor Cregg, you know?"

Suggested proposal:

Hypothesis: Fear negatively affects memory

Experiment: Two groups. Both groups are given a list of words to memorize for a set amount of time. The list is then taken away. One group (the control group) is asked to recite as many of the words on the list that they remember. The other group is asked the same thing, but is told that for every word missed (either forgotten or misremembered), they will suffer a punishment (to be devised later).

Faith signs in.

Faith looks around the room for a partner she can stand. And who is willing to do a totally fun experiment.

Paige bites her lip looking worried, "what I had no idea! Sorry, I guess we can work out details you'll be comfortable with out of class yeah?"

She looks over the proposal and smiles at him, "yeah that looks good to me!"

Duce approaches Drusilla and acknowledges, "We didn't do the last essay, Professor. We considered it a cheap shot at you while you weren't there. We would prefer not to do that essay at all, and if you're amenable, would like to take a special project instead."

(ooc: Player is running out for several hours but will be back tonight and on all weekend except Sat. evening due to HP movie goodness.)

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Abnormal Psychology (11-18-05)

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DISCUSSION: MURDER

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