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Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There’s no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell’s at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed… spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top… the top sheet on the bottom… and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one’ll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don’t bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I’m Carr, the floor walker. I’m responsible for order in here. Any man don’t keep order spends a night in…
Luke: …the box.
Carr: I hope you ain’t going to be a hard case.
Luke: [Smiles, shakes head] .
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This is the second story in as many months about Kennesaw State and racism. Last month a professor went on a racial tirade against an Uber driver that was also caught on video
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It’s probably worth noting that Kennesaw is a city that requires everyone to own a gun.
And I can take one look at that woman and see she is incredibly high strung and it won’t take much to set her off.
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Then he eats a zillion hard boiled eggs.
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Failure to communicate.
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So a college student decides to wait for an extended period of time to see an adviser and is accused of harassment. Sorry, but this is just normal behavior for a desperate college student. It’s not harassment, it’s initiative.
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If this was harassment I was a serial offender. I would pester the hell out of professors to please let me in their full classes, I had two semesters where my schedule was completely empty with every single class and backup I’d requested were listed as full. I’d get on the waiting lists and keep attending until I’d wear the professor down. It worked.
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Good grief. Where to begin? It’s an ADVISEMENT CENTER but they apparently don’t allow walk-ins?
And that woman probably ought to be looking for another job…
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Persistence works. Always has on me, at least.
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Well with her impeccable fashion sense, welcoming attitude and lovely visage and bouncy curls, I’m sure she’ll have no problem finding suitable employment, although I have an idea that the only job for which she qualifies involves her wearing a uniform (and I’m not talking flight attendant).
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If that bit of prose was written by a college student, then Kennesaw needs a lot more than better advisers.
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She needs to be removed from her position and fired. We cannot tolerate that behavior toward anyone. It was apparently handled very unprofessionally and is unacceptable. We have to start nipping this in the bud and be consistent.
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If you read the student’s description, the behavior of the woman in the video is hardly surprising–when you have the head of the department saying “Go to a school where they’ll advise you” in response to a complaint about advising?
She has some company in the “We’re going to treat students like dirt” crowd…
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You’d probably be horrified at the writing abilities of the typical college student these days.
On good days, I’m pretty sure students emerge from my courses better than how they arrived, but sometimes???
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Woww. Gotta agree I did this constantly in college. It was often the ONLY way to get some help. I once had to wait for 2 hours in the registrars office waiting for the person I needed to get back from “lunch.” I always had a decent experience with my advisor. But when there were any administrative problems you could bet it was going to eat up half your day waiting on someone to help.
If I were an admin at that school I’d be questioning ms. Tilly on why she has spent so much time not advising her students.
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Just remember: average literacy is higher than ever. But so is the number of people in college.
that lady is getting fired.
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Let’s ignore the racial question and just cut to the heart of the problem.
The woman felt she was being harassed because a student showed up actually asking for his advisor so he could deal with some issues he felt he needed help with. That would require the staff to actually…you know…do their job. This woman doesn’t want to actually do the job, so someone expecting she would (or could) made her feel uncomfortable. The longer he sat there, simply waiting, the more pressure she felt to actually…you know…do her job. That would likely interfere with things she considered more important than actually doing her job, so she got upset…and then she tried to get him to leave so she wouldn’t actually have to do her job. Sadly, she’s probably even paid money to do that job…which she doesn’t really want to do in the first place. The idea that the student’s race is the issue isn’t valid…it just made things worse. There’s nothing worse than being expected to do your job, by someone you feel is a lesser person than you are.
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Yes, well, everyone makes the occasional mistake (even Josh wrote “lead” when he meant “led” in his latest on the runup to the Iraq War), but when there’s at least one flagrant solecism in practically every sentence, the room for improvement is immense.
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