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gennimom
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« Reply #720 on: March 20, 2007, 12:43:05 PM »

Could be true. A sheriff's deputy came looking for my husband to testify once. They needed him that day. Unfortunately for them he was out of town. They came to ask me and other members of his family where he was.
Whoa, not to hijack this thread, but gennimom, you could start a thread telling us about this incident. It could be a wonderful place to post about our students' il/legal lives as well.
:)

Sorry, I started a reply to this one last night but got interrupted.
Nothing so interesting. We'd had a break-in in a series of them, and they supposedly needed my husband to testify against the bad guys. They got convicted anyway. I guess the fact that they were caught red-handed with our stuff (which we had the serial numbers for) was sufficient evidence against them. It did cause interesting questions from my students though since the deputy came looking for me in the school cafeteria. :)
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« Reply #721 on: March 20, 2007, 01:02:07 PM »

How about....

"I missed the exam because I **unexpectedly** got called in to court to testify.  Here is the number for the police officer involved: Lt. XXXX, number XXX-XXXX.  You may call him to confirm."

As if the judge called this student the night before the exam to ask if he/she would be so kind as to clear his/her schedule and arrive in court. 

As if the police officer would not mind if I randomly called him up and asked him if he could validate my student's absence.

Lovin' it.

Call!  I love calling the cops!  And once, the absolutely inane story that my student was telling was proved to be true.  The rest of the time, the cops & I just had some good laughs.  (Campus police...)

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.
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« Reply #722 on: March 20, 2007, 01:26:23 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

It's only a no-no if you think it is.  The fora taboo is against outing other people, not yourself.  You always have the right to indicate who you, yourself, really are.
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« Reply #723 on: March 20, 2007, 01:29:25 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

It's only a no-no if you think it is.  The fora taboo is against outing other people, not yourself.  You always have the right to indicate who you, yourself, really are.

I meant more that the university might not be happy if I told some of the stories. 

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« Reply #724 on: March 20, 2007, 01:49:12 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

It's only a no-no if you think it is.  The fora taboo is against outing other people, not yourself.  You always have the right to indicate who you, yourself, really are.

I meant more that the university might not be happy if I told some of the stories. 

Aha.  Duh.  As Miss Emily Litella used to say, "Oh!  That's different.  Never mind."
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« Reply #725 on: March 20, 2007, 01:54:23 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

It's only a no-no if you think it is.  The fora taboo is against outing other people, not yourself.  You always have the right to indicate who you, yourself, really are.

I meant more that the university might not be happy if I told some of the stories. 


I bet we'd be happy, though! Still, we'll live without it.
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« Reply #726 on: March 20, 2007, 02:45:37 PM »

Could be true. A sheriff's deputy came looking for my husband to testify once. They needed him that day. Unfortunately for them he was out of town. They came to ask me and other members of his family where he was.
Whoa, not to hijack this thread, but gennimom, you could start a thread telling us about this incident. It could be a wonderful place to post about our students' il/legal lives as well.
:)

Sorry, I started a reply to this one last night but got interrupted.
Nothing so interesting. We'd had a break-in in a series of them, and they supposedly needed my husband to testify against the bad guys. They got convicted anyway. I guess the fact that they were caught red-handed with our stuff (which we had the serial numbers for) was sufficient evidence against them. It did cause interesting questions from my students though since the deputy came looking for me in the school cafeteria. :)
No apologies needed, gennimom; I've followed your posts for some time.
So, did you students see the deputy looking for you? What was the gossip? Anything too interesting? Did it start discussions amongst the students of a similar nature?
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gennimom
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« Reply #727 on: March 20, 2007, 03:00:31 PM »

More along the lines of, "What was So-and-so doing talking to you? You in trouble?
Mr. GD okay?" At least those were from the ones who knew me. I have no idea what the others were saying. And yes, the students saw. The cafeteria was full and I was sitting at the faculty table in clear view of the entire room. Several of the students were related to the deputy. Small community. One of the students knew what the guy was doing because his house was broken into as well.
Sorry it can't be more titillating! It seemed exciting at the time though.
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« Reply #728 on: March 20, 2007, 07:44:59 PM »

How about....

"I missed the exam because I **unexpectedly** got called in to court to testify.  Here is the number for the police officer involved: Lt. XXXX, number XXX-XXXX.  You may call him to confirm."

As if the judge called this student the night before the exam to ask if he/she would be so kind as to clear his/her schedule and arrive in court. 

As if the police officer would not mind if I randomly called him up and asked him if he could validate my student's absence.

Lovin' it.

Call!  I love calling the cops!  And once, the absolutely inane story that my student was telling was proved to be true.  The rest of the time, the cops & I just had some good laughs.  (Campus police...)

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

Bummer, indeed.  Mine is one of my best student stories ever.  I will only say:

prospective student tour
nakedness
water
drugs
sticks
mud


Oh for multiple monikers....
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infopri
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« Reply #729 on: March 20, 2007, 11:54:46 PM »

Bummer, indeed.  Mine is one of my best student stories ever.  I will only say:

prospective student tour
nakedness
water
drugs
sticks
mud


Oh for multiple monikers....

Oh, you can't leave us hanging like that, iomhaigh!!  Give us more.  More, more, more!!!
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« Reply #730 on: March 21, 2007, 07:01:21 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

Bummer, indeed.  Mine is one of my best student stories ever.  I will only say:

prospective student tour
nakedness
water
drugs
sticks
mud


Oh for multiple monikers....

Yet more Forum Teases.  Some people get us all excited for good stories (and who doesn't love a good story) and then refuse to share.  *SIGH*
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« Reply #731 on: March 22, 2007, 09:22:24 AM »

This isn't from an email, but on an official course evaluation that some genius inserted into the stack of written responses yesterday.

For a course on Christianity, with "Christianity" in the actual title of the course:

I felt the course was one-sided - only church perspective -> did not look at atheism
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« Reply #732 on: March 22, 2007, 10:41:07 AM »

Again, not an email, but once I commented upon how a number of works we had studied examined issues of class and gender from a variety of perspectives.  Mr. Goth raised his hand and responded, "Only the human ones."
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« Reply #733 on: March 22, 2007, 11:51:23 AM »

I always give special encouragement to my nonhuman students....
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« Reply #734 on: March 24, 2007, 03:51:12 PM »

The stories that I would love to tell.  Three incidents just this semester.  But, they would probably identify my school and I think that's a no-no.

Bummer.

Bummer, indeed.  Mine is one of my best student stories ever.  I will only say:

prospective student tour
nakedness
water
drugs
sticks
mud


Oh for multiple monikers....

Yet more Forum Teases.  Some people get us all excited for good stories (and who doesn't love a good story) and then refuse to share.  *SIGH*

Let's see if I can do this without totally outing myself or my former employer:

Imagine a fine, warm day in late summer.   

One of my students and a friend, sans clothing and on the ground near a body of water, were discovered one morning by a group of prospectives and parents on a tour who were brought along this particular route through campus because it was scenic, what with the water and nature and all. 

An irate parent of a prospective called the cops because there was a little too much nature on this part of the tour.  [Why on earth they were shocked to see party remnants on that particular campus still astounds me, but....]

The cops showed up and woke up the students who were unconscious in all of their naked glory on the shore in a lot of mud.  The students had no clothes, no id, and no clue how they had gotten there.  Whomever had left them, however, had created some crude Blair Witch Project symbols out of sticks and left them around them.  The cops, used to such shenanigans, arrested the students. 

However, they did not get them away from the area before the next tour came wandering past.  My student told me that they were told to "cover themselves" on the front using the mud in which they were sitting before they were handcuffed and made to sit there while the tour wandered past. 

Tour wanders by.  Student was mortified.  Apparently student's friend was still more than a little under the influence and greatly enjoyed both the attention and scaring the prospectives. 

The students then were told to get up and get into the police vehicle.  The friend got up and promptly passed out and fell over into the mud, splattering the cop that was helping the friend up and who could not get a good enough hold on the friend because the friend was muddy.   

Apparently, the duo had been mixing some recreational drugs in unwise combinations, or so their drug tests revealed. 

The one who was in my class, and who missed my class because sheit was still cooking under the late morning sun at the start of class and was in the clink by the end of it, had one nasty sunburn for a while.  Sheit told me that the pranksters who left them there and/or stole their clothes had used mud to create an outline of the school's name on sheit's back and that sheit (a white student) was a walking billboard for the school for a while.   

Anyhow, there are some other details missing, but largely, this is the funny part.  I did not believe the student for one minute, until sheit offered to show me the sunburn and started pulling up sheit's shirt in my office.  I told sheit that perhaps keeping clothes on needed to be a new habit and called the cops to inquire.  They confirmed it all. 

I still imagine that your imaginations came up with better stories!
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