This interterm, students had a chance to attend classes at Chapman University’s controversial new School of Staunch Discipline and Unfun Things Such as Boring Poetry. Courses include such topics as floor mopping, picket fence painting, dunce cap wearing, getting slapped on the knuckle with a yardstick, and so on.
Faculty at the new school have defended their teaching. With regard to his heavily criticized course “Avoidance of Joy: How to Lament the Past and Detest the Present,” Professor Ebenezer Scrooge stated that “Universities today suffer from a serious miscreant problem that must be thwarted.” However, the school already finds itself in dire straits for a staff termination policy that critics describe as cruel after Evil Robert Frost, PhD, was fired from the school’s poetry department for bringing students hard candies during finals week.
