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Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 28 00:02:18 UTC 2018
Ye gods and little fishes! It's spreading!
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:
> In an undergraduate theatre class this morning the professor (early
> sixties, lighting expert) said, after playfully hitting a student with a
> sheet of paper: ‘Professor cowers student just before course evaluations’.
> Nobody noticed, except yr, humble servant...
>
> Geoff
>
> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
>
> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
>
> Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it
> to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email looks.
>
>
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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