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Civil Engineering

Rude students — those who bound into class late and then proceed to chat, text message, devour fast food, read magazines, sleep, send e-mail messages, and otherwise radiate that smug sense of entitlement — can make you tear out your hair. Or theirs.

But Pier M. Forni, a professor of Italian literature who also directs...

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