May Have Missed

URDU 102: Intermediate Urdu.

FINE ARTS 263: Seminar: Gardens of 17th Century Italy.

TURKIC 285: Old Uighur. You can't put one past ol' Uighur.

IRANIAN 279a: Seminar: Maulana Rumi and His Influence on East and West.

ENGLISH 184: Modern Canadian Fiction. No books on the shelves at the Coop from this one.

Akkadian 233r. Advanced Akkadian

The "r" means you can take this course a couple of times. Yesterday, it attracted about five graduate students, although it has the potential for a great deal of mass appeal. Yesterday, Professor Moran wowed opening-day gawkers with a non-technical spiel on Mesopotamian tablets, followed by a joke which provokes laughter each time it is uttered. "Reiner obviously had an Anzu period," Moran said. The class fairly roared. May be used to fulfill distribution requirement.

Soc Sci 160. Nonverbal Communication

They're still trying to pack them into Emerson 210 to hear Laurence Wylie and Robert Rosenthal ("Otherwise known as the Bob and Larry Show," to quote Wylie) give this one. Wylie, of "Civilization of France" fame, attracted a legion of long-standing fans in search of another Soc Sci gut. With no paper and one test besides the final in this oeuvre, they may have found one.

In fact, because the course was so crowded Wylie pleaded with people to leave to make room for others.

Jokes were rampant in the stands: Student one (to student two): "What are you doing in such an intellectual course?"

Student two: "I'm learning how to talk."

Another student: Maybe this is like one of those highly intensive French courses--you know, where you can speak only French--so here, no one will be allowed to talk.

Non-verbal communication, get it?