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- From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172941.10925@panix.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:29:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.210706.26588@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Nov15.230526.1234@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology
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- In <1992Nov15.230526.1234@news.Hawaii.Edu> callred@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Curtis Allred) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov11.210706.26588@hubcap.clemson.edu> cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson) writes:
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- >>Does anyone out there know of any college or university that supports
- >>the (some think mythological) rule that if your roommate commits
- >>suicide, you will automatically be given a 4.00 GPA for the semester?
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- >I got the word from a Resident Assistant whom I know and is of sound
- >mind and limb that here at the University of Hawaii, at least, that
- >this is indeed a real rule and is in fact enforced.
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- RA's are a rung below graduate students on the evolutionary scale.
- Probably this RA was told the same tales when they came to the University,
- and never distinguished it from hardcore documented policy.
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- Show me a documented policy, or a first hand account of it ever happening.
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