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Sociology Courses | January 23, 2006

Sociology of Violence: 2nd Period

Grissom is standing at the front of the class, feeding a few tarantulas who are perched on his desk in their terrariums. They've been officially banned from his apartment and office, and will now live in the lab. Poor ~~T-Boz, Left Eye, and Chili~~ spiders.

"Welcome, everyone. After doing all that reading this weekend, you should be familiar now with the material.

So, instead of lecturing you, today we will participate in a project.

Using the full resources of the Humanities wing (the AV/computer lab, Grissom's creepy stuff, the science materials, etc.), I'd like you to design some sort of Anti-Violence message for the campus.

You will not be graded on this, so feel free to be experimental. At the end of class, share ~~describe, link, whatever~~ what you have done with the class.

Sociology of the Paranormal: 6th Period

"Please turn in your homework."

Grissom then lectures on the Sokal Affair as his students probably nod off, and lets them go without assigning any homework.

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Hand in your homework.

"Dr. Grissom, I had a...difficult weekend. Can I have an extension for my homework?" Bel asks hopefully. "I know I'm not setting a good example as a TA and I really want to do the project, but I had, um, a difficult weekend."

"Of course, Bel. That's not a problem. Is everything okay?"

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Marty turns in his transcribed homework. (http://oatmanspatient.livejournal.com/38521.html)

He tries to pay attention to the lecture but eventually falls asleep on his desk.

If you listen closely you might hear him mutter "Two dollars...".

Our assignment was to interview someone from Fandom about a paranormal experience they have encountered. We needed to determine the who, what, where, and when, as well as ask them three additional questions.

I spoke to a student who asked to not be identified by name. They reported having an encounter with another student who was dead, and yet somehow not. That student was at the bookstore buying books on ghosts to "maximize their afterlife experience" just last week.

In addition, I asked my source if there was there any way to tell that the student they ran into was or had been dead from the way they behaved. My source replied, ""Other than them wanting to be better at being dead? No."

I also asked if they happened to know how the student had died, but my source did not and reported not having even been aware that said student was/had been dead until this incident.

As my last question I asked if my source had ever seen someone who was dead or a ghost before. They replied that they had and talked about having performed a seance and having actually been able to contact a spirit.

(From here (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/409373.html), but source has requested to remain anonymous.)

Angela passes in an interview with Rory Gilmore and then sits back to listen to the lecture.

"Thank you, Angela," Grissom says, scanning her essay as he winces a little at Rory's tale.

"Needed a change of pace?" he asks, mentioning her hair.

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Cordy hands in an interview ~~which totally didn't happen omg~~ with Tino, the bartender at Caritas.

The interview starts out focused on paranormal activity occuring around the karaoke club, but strays off-topic a number of times, while he and Cordy are obviously watching people sing and be silly and drunken. The content of the interview is passable, but not exactly concise or a piece of outstanding journalism. She also may have been drinking while the interview was being conducted. Mayyyybe.

Piper hands in an interview with Weevil about running into his dead ex ~~which the mun totally did not rp with, uh, herself~~. The content of the interview is mediocre at best. It was a really weird weekend.

[ooc: I really was going to do this sometime over the weekend and then completely forgot. Woe!]

"Huh, I thought Lilly was dating that nice ball fellow," Grissom says with a bit of confusion.

"Apparently, she enjoys insects as well though," he says with a grin. "I wonder what kind of weevil she dated. I'm partial to the red palm weevil myself. Fascinating species."

Walter turns in a transcription of his interview with Pippi (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/544646.html?thread=25589382#t25589382).

"A working crystal ball?" Grissom marvels. "That I would like to see," he says honestly. "Thank you Walter, good work."

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Jake hands in his interview with Tony, a taxi driver from the mainland. It has more doodles than actual writing, and Tony doesn't come off as a wildly open minded fellow.

Grissom turns the interview upside-down, looking at a particular doddle with real interest.

"Oh, yes, good essay, thanks Jake."

Thanks to Cam's talk of bakeries, Jaye went this morning to Jeff, the God of Biscuits, where she interviewed the NPC clerk. Whose name? Not Jeff. Maybe a demigod.

It's a very interesting report from Not-Jeff, who has been hit with water balloons and is convinced that the activity is paranormal, as he's never actually seen the culprit. He thinks it's a ghost.

"Prankster ghosts?" Grissom asks, looking over Jaye's work. "That's interesting, although I am sure the truth is far more ~~ninja~~ pedestrian."

Phoebe hands in her homework

Lyta hands in a brief, but well-written interview, done when she wasn't cowering in a dark corner.

[Okay, so...Lyta inherited my migraines. I've got a friend who suspects the headaches preparing us for the next rung on the evolutionary ladder, so why not? Apologies for not providing something of real substance...]

Shep turns in a neatly summarized paper on his his interview with Maia (http://wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com/11536.html).

He then puts his head down and prays for it to explode soon so as to get it over with.

Mac hands in her interview with Syd. (http://spy-to-be.livejournal.com/3005.html?thread=23229#t23229) ~~which is kinda mixed with some 'omg! You threw a twinkie at me?' stuff. Heh~~.

Broots handed in an interview he did with Alanna. ~~Which I just might rp with myself because I am a nut~~. It's not very well written, but it does have some interesting points. Broots is apparently a bit afraid of Alanna. He also complained about her cursing and 'violance is the answer' mindframe. He might have been hidding in a corner during the interview.

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Jessica hands in a summary of an over-the-phone interview she did with her sister, Mary. In it Jessica explains how the two talked about such things as Mary's second husband's ability to make himself invisable, how he was once abducted by aliens, and how for some time Mary lived with an alien, a replacement of her second husband that looked at sounded just like him, but was, in fact, not him. Jessica writes these things down very matter-of-factly, but unfortunately most of it is rather incoherent.

Stark ~~who in no way forgot to do this, omg~~ hands in an interview with someone from the NPC Pizza Shop. It may have been done rather hastily during the lunch hour today, and the paper may be pepperoni scented. It seems that pizza shop employees are used to seeing weird things, especially in Fandom.

Raven looks very embarrassed. "Um, can I get an extension on this to Wednesday?"

(IC request for OOC reasons. :blush: :mumble: )

Phoebe hands in a report on why Myth #10: Believers in the paranormal are thinking in primitive, childish, misguided and uninformed ways she disagrees quite strongly with Myth #10. It may involve cursing. It also may include the sentence:

"I was attacked by three demons and an Angel helped me fight a war in my mind to keep me from dying! That is in no way primitive."

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