A number of readers, including
A number of readers, including mccullen, slo-draw and Brian from Snarkism, have written in to inform us that CRISP (all caps, although it wasn’t written that way on the student’s questionnaire) is an obsolete, cumbersome telephone registration system run by an entity known as “the CRISP lady.”
But another reader offers a very different interpretation: “Crisp? I’m sort of old, but we used to use that term in place of ’stoned’. And no, I wasn’t some Ann Arbor pseudo-hippie. Just a normal 20-year-old student from the Detroit ‘burbs.”
Needlessly complicated bureaucracy or stoners? It’s a classic A2 dilemma.