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Overheard in Forbes

He’s got really stupid taste in women.
You mean Japs?

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· February 28, 2001

Between two University administrators, Nassau Hall

Why did that alumnus give so much money to re-open Cannon Club?
He probably misses the days when he and his friends could pee on each other and gang-rape women.

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· February 28, 2001

Professor Katz in CLG 103

When you’re a grad student, basically everyone in the world shits on you while your friends make tons of money trading junk bonds.

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· February 28, 2001

Overheard in HUM 206 precept (on Dante’s Inferno)

I don’t get this last Canto. I mean, who is this Judas guy?

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· February 28, 2001

Overheard at Campus

We never stop. We’re like plastic-coated rabbits.

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· February 28, 2001

Overheard in a WWS301 precept

Let’s suppose that you have a point.

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· February 28, 2001

Groundskeeper, on Mardi Gras

Watch out for Hatians. They’ll do some wack voodoo shit on your ass.

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· March 7, 2001

Katz, CLA208 (to a student)

I may be a pretentious pig, but you blow me out of the water!

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· March 7, 2001

Mystery Professor, CLA208

The moral of the story is, if you’re considering taking courses in the sociology department: don’t. ...Oh boy, if this makes it into Verbatim, I’m screwed.

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard in Cottage

Friday? That’s the movie that taught me about black peoples!

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard in CLA 214 Precept

Let’s just imagine Tim with a seven-year-old girl. Just imagine!

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard IN GER 102

American beer is what, 2% alcohol? It’s like water... oh, but for you, that’s illegal.

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard in Terrace

Yo, what if your name was ‘Ruptured Shithole’?

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard in Aaron Burr

Did I say pornography? I meant homophobia.

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· March 7, 2001

Overheard in Spelman

Maybe I do want to be an academic. Whenever I go into Firestone and see all those books it makes me want to come in my pants.

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· October 3, 2001

Overheard outside Mathey dining hall

If I’m going to rush, I better stick to salads.

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· October 3, 2001

Overheard in POL 310

Boy: Yeah, Robbie George, the bigot, teaches Con Interp.
Girl: Oh, no, he’s not a bigot. He’s a really strict Catholic.

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· October 3, 2001

Overheard about ELE491 Lecturer, Ed Zschau

He can destroy you. He’s like Aaron Spelling.

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· October 3, 2001

Professor Cadden in THR 331, On Puritans’ critique of Elizabethan Theater

They just go on and on and ON about the sex - it’s fabulous!

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· October 3, 2001

Prof. Cadden, THR 331

Student: isn’t “occurrence” referring to sex?
Cadden: Well, (thumbs up) dirty mind at 9:30 - way to go.

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· October 3, 2001

Professor Wolff, ENG345, on Hedda Gabler

In the production I saw, when she committed suicide, the blood splattered on General Gabler’s portrait...I thought that was quite nice.

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· October 3, 2001

Prof. Taylor, AAS391

I am African American. I realize I probably look white and Jewish to most of you... There was some fooling around back there in the slave age.

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· October 3, 2001

Joyce Carol Oates, CWR 203

You don’t have to have a bad opium trip to write well.

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· October 3, 2001

Preceptor Anne Margaret Daniel, ENG345

Naturalism is like realism on drugs.

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· October 3, 2001

Professor Wolff, ENG345

We’re not talking about oysters here. We’re talking about syphilis.

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· October 3, 2001