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Clever Students
Lurked for ages but thought I'd share this story.

I lecture at a well known Uni in Oxford and a couple of years ago
a group of us started using facebook. So far so dull really, that was until I typed the name of my subject in to the search box. Up came a load of my students, once again not that interesting. But what made it great fun was the fact a large number of them had joined the "Certain Lecturer is a really really boring man! A support group for survivors of 'Certain Lecturer's' teaching". This chap is a lovely bloke but could bore for a living. After carefully screen capturing the whole group for my own, and colleagues amusement, I sent a short e-mail to the group pointing out that they had broken the Uni's rules and I would be taking the matter further (not that I was ever going to or more importantly could be bothered). Several of them arrived in tears professing abject regret and apologising and asking not to be thrown out (again not really the plan). Upshot was a lot of scared students and some very amused lecturers.
(Tue 16th Sep 2008, 14:18, More)