"This has Bakke all over it!" -An AU civil liberties professor discussing school desegregation cases in the Supreme Court
During the Honors Program's annual Brain Bowl, one of the questions posed to the panel was, "What disease did the Egyptians think could be cured by swallowing a mouse?" After several wrong guesses, one especially excited audience member shouted out "syphilis" at the top of his lungs. We can only imagine how the mouse would help treat the rashes, blindness and dementia, but the much less amusing correct answer was "a sore throat."
One Eagle staffer had a slightly demoralizing experience at the University Health Center this week while trying to obtain emergency contraception. After the doctor handed over a pack of Plan B, the cashier in the waiting room asked what her prescription was, even though it was clearly circled on the piece of paper. "Emergency contraception," she replied. For some reason, the cashier asked her to repeat herself, at which point the Eagle staffer momentarily lost her mind and screamed, "Emergency contraception!" at the woman, who turned red, asked for $20 and let the staffer leave without her receipt.
"I love boobies!" screamed one girl to another down the Mary Graydon hallway near the Student Government offices while confused men looked on. The Scene staff is also very excited about today's Breastival. Condom arts and crafts, water boob darts and delicious snacks are sure to make women's health more interesting than ever.
Especially interesting dialogue overheard recently: Person 1: "I'm going to the grocery store later, you want anything?" Person 2: "Honey-Nut Cheerios would be good." Person 1: "Uh, I'm going to Whole Foods. I don't know if they have those." Person 2: "Cheerful O's of wholesome goodness covered in reverentially organic honey from free-range bees?" Person 1: "Right..."
In a recent anthropology course, the professor relayed a particularly ridiculous story back to the class. While doing some business in a toilet stall the other day, the professor overhead her neighbor speaking with a receptionist, trying to get in touch with her new boss to inform them both that she was running late. Not only was this neighbor loudly rolling out some toilet paper, but she also didn't seem too put off by the professor's tinkling or toilet flushing. Truly puts a new face on the do's and don'ts of appropriate cell phone use.
-Compiled by the Scene staff