The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

COMM 353: Cat eats homework ...



News item (well, I guess you can call it news) in Huffington Post: "Student Posts Video Of Cat Literally Eating Their Homework (VIDEO)." Click here for the background. Here's the nut graf:
Reddit user kittymonzo posted a YouTube video of her cat viciously mauling what is identified as the owner's homework assignment on the kitchen counter. Okay, so maybe not viciously, but the feline is certainly going to town on that piece of paper.
By the way, if you haven't turned in your midterm yet and you're still taking the course (you know who you are), you can still get full credit if you produce a sworn affidavit from your cat testifying that said cat did in fact eat your midterm. If you don't have such an affidavit, you can still get enough partial credit to make a passing grade in the course. But you really, really need to contact me and/or show up in class.
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1 comment:

Stacie Taylor said...

Hilarous! And true! My ex-roomies cats LOVED to eat all things paper.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 2:06:00 PM CDT

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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.