“It’s easy to mix up scantrons and party napkins when you’re having a good time”
A Faculty of Social Sciences professor has finally provided his POL1738: “Social Media Wars and Political Clapbacks” class with their midterm results, which were taken in early October. The twist? Each scantron looked as if it had been folded into a paper airplane.
Professor Duncan Yu proceeded to admit to his morning class on Dec. 4 that the scantrons had been used for nefarious purposes. “My colleagues and I didn’t realize the sheets were scantrons until after we had completed the faculty paper airplane race on Saturday,” the tenured professor told the first-year class. “It’s easy to mix up scantrons and party napkins when you’re having a good time.”
The students taking the class appeared to be enraged at the carelessness of the professor. “If I had known that old [expletive] gave me a 23 on the midterm I would have dropped this [expletive] class two months ago”, said one student as he was leaving the Alumni Auditorium. The student refused to provide his name to the Fulcrum, fearing retribution from the professor.
Other students took to social media to voice their displeasure with the situation. Many tweeted at the university, contending that Yu should face consequences. “It probably would have been useful to know my grade a month ago,” Twitter user sensfan2005 wrote. “I can’t believe the university is allowing our midterm grades to be withheld for this long.”
While annoying to some students, the mishap should hardly come as a surprise, as this was hardly the first blemish on Yu’s record. The professor’s ‘Rate my Professor’ score is a lowly 0.6 out of five, and the review section is decorated with angry rants from students.
“Probably the worst professor I’ve ever had,” wrote one anonymous user. “Disorganized, vague, has a tendency to be slightly racist and condescending,” wrote another. A third compared the mandatory purchase of Yu’s self-written textbook to “highway robbery”.
The final exam will take place on Dec. 9, and Yu entrusted the Fulcrum with a preview of the content. “Get familiar with unfamiliarity,” the professor told us. “Forget everything you think you know, because this final is going to test you on things I think you should know.”
