Give Me an L! Give Me an A!…
A resident writing to the News letters page suggests naming the new high school “Ann Arbor Landlady High.” Not to impugn her former profession or anything, but we can’t help but notice that land-persons don’t always attract the warmest feelings in A2, both among the students they rent to and the townies who don’t want to live near the students they rent to. Perhaps there’s some other occupation that might have more public support, although since the writer specifically mentioned naming the new high school after local women, we suppose Ann Arbor Bird Lister High, with its hypermasculine associations, is out.
Also, Notional Slurry offers some long-needed skepticism about the Engineering Honor Code.
I can understand why the students might not be enthusiastic about the loandladies. The townies who are upset about student living next door to them in a college town should MOVE!!!!
posted by LuckyJackson on September 9th, 2004 at 12:51 pmDoes she mean there were no female Hurons or pioneers?
Why Landlady High, anyway? Dare to dream bigger dreams — Wiccan High, Actress High, Mother High, Barrista High.
posted by Anna on September 9th, 2004 at 1:52 pmWhat about Ann Coulter High School? They could kill the leaders of the rival high schools and convert the rest to Christianity.
posted by George on September 9th, 2004 at 2:52 pmObviously it should be Lucy Liu High. She did, after all, go to U of M. And what could any young lady aspire to that’s better than Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle?
posted by art student on September 9th, 2004 at 4:56 pmI love the Lucy Liu idea - maybe it could be a Lucy Liu school for girls, and a James Earl Jones school for boys. Imagine how cool it would be to read the morning announcements in a mock JEJ voice.
As for the honor code, Notional Slurry is off base. I suppose not all honor codes are the same, but I have always understood the UofM Eng. code as a fancy way of saying “I have not done anything that the professor would consider cheating.” It is called an honor code, not a confidentiality agreement. There is the very McCarthiest “I have not concealed any violations” part, but I have never heard of anyone getting in trouble for concealing a violation, and many profs didn’t even require us to write this part.
posted by dont_think_twice on September 10th, 2004 at 5:59 pmNotional Slurry is talking not really about the Honor Code itself but about the almost universal practice of extending the Honor Code to consider any kind of collaboration cheating. It’s unlike any engineering school I’ve ever seen (and this isn’t the first one I’ve attended.)
posted by ann arbor is overrated on September 10th, 2004 at 9:18 pm“A Waste Of Our Tax Dollars High”
posted by XxinfinitexX on September 11th, 2004 at 3:29 pmI just moved from a lovely apartment with my two chums on the Old West Side to the student middens over on Geddes next to the cemetery. It wasn’t by choice–one of my roomies got married, the other graduated and moved back to Rochester. The latter was the only actual “student.” The other was going to WCC part time and I’m finishing up my M.A. at a school in Ohio (long story). Nevertheless, we were definitely treated as bloody students by our next-door neighbor (admittedly, my roommates had some slightly loud parties, although nothing too excessive). On the day we all moved, the next-door neighbor lady came and presented us with tomatoes from her garden, believing us to be the new tenants. I will treasure forever the look on her face when I revealed that we had been living there for a year.
Where were OUR tomatoes??? Answer me that, Neighbor Lady!!
Wonderful site, by the way–I’ve been meaning to come here forever but I’ve only just now gotten around to it.
posted by Lazaro on September 13th, 2004 at 6:47 pm