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Freshman In Lecture Asks Question He Clearly Knows The Answer To

Published Friday, November 4th, 2016

Sitting towards the front of his urban studies lecture on Wednesday, it appears Donald Suthers ’20 clearly knows the answer to the question he just asked.

“He’s definitely just asking that question to prove he did the reading,” noted Colby Lewis ‘17, adding that Suthers quoted a passage from the assigned article in his question. "His little smirk at the end gave away the fact that he totally knows the ways in which an ethnographer’s own positionality can impact how they conduct field research."

Suthers himself seems to have noticed remarkably of the other students’ exasperation. “I think it’s just that everyone’s still a little tired at 1 p.m.,” sources heard him complaining. “Maybe if everyone participated like I do, we’d have a livelier in-class environment.

“I’m just trying to set a good example here,” he added with a grin.

But other students disagree. “Everyone wishes he would just stop,” stated Josh Tomlin ‘17. “I mean, you’re in a lecture of 150 students. There are easier ways to show how obnoxiously engaged and interested you are in the class. Isn’t that why office hours were invented?”

“The more reading he does, the more he can ask and then immediately answer,” Tomlin continued. “Someone is going to have to say something eventually, but until then we’ll probably all just continue staring at the back of his head until that somehow makes him decide to stop talking.”

At press time, Suthers was hanging around after class in order to walk out with the professor.

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