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clevermanka ([personal profile] clevermanka) wrote2010-05-07 08:55 am
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It embarrasses me to admit it, but I have never seen The People vs. Larry Flynt. Shameful. Wonder if it's rentable at Liberty Hall. It's a sure bet Hastings won't have it. Anybody else notice that Netflix has completely killed the older-than-ten-years movie selection at local rental places? Forget about finding anything made before 1960.

Black and white/classic movies were pretty much all I watched on T.V. when I was in junior high. We got HBO (and MTV) when I was in high school and that changed my viewing habits a bit, but I still watched a lot of pre-60s stuff. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixed with Duran Duran. I guess that explains some of my fashion choices.





Yesterday was the last day of Spring 2010 semester. Today is Stop Day. For those of you not KU-affiliated, that means no classes, no exams. Academically, everything stops today to give undergraduates a three day weekend before finals to recover from (or continue) last night's drunken binges. I've always thought this was very generous of the administration. Occasionally a rumor goes around that they're going to get rid of Stop Day, but I hope they don't. Even if most of the student body takes it for granted. It's still a nice gesture.
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[identity profile] acommonreader.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It is! I am at the University of Iowa now, and we do not have this, and I miss it - especially, God knows, right now!

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I shall spend a moment of silence to mourn your lack of Stop Day today. Seriously, it's such a blessing. And not just for students. We staff persons appreciate it, too.

[identity profile] geekmom.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Back when I was there, it was Stop Week. They shouldn't take it for granted. ;-)

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that I would've wanted a whole week of Stop. Given the choice, I'd rather get my finals done with instead of hanging around for a whole week between.

Edit: when were you here? I got here in 1988 and we had only the Stop Day. We did have two weeks of finals, though.
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[identity profile] verminiusrex.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that it was Stop Day on a Monday or Tuesday, but they didn't start finals until the following Monday. Mostly I remember a week of being really bored.

[identity profile] geekmom.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That might have been what the deal was. And they had finals on Saturdays, too.

[identity profile] stuology.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Have they permanently moved it to a Friday? I remember it being in the middle of the week, which was a wonderful, wonderful blessing because it gave you at least one day before finals started. Of course, if you didn't have a final on the first day of finals, bonus!

My tenure started in 1993, which OMG, seems so long ago.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember Stop Day ever not being on a Friday.

I'm gonna have to go over to University Archives to do some digging, now.

[identity profile] stuology.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, it used to be on Tuesday.
"Stop Day began when finals started on a Wednesday and students were given Tuesday off to study."

http://www.kansan.com/news/2009/feb/10/committee_considers/

I also found an article from the Kansas City Star from Dec 11, 1991 that referenced stop day being on a Tuesday.

"McSwain said firefighters were called to the three-story house at 10:50 pm When they arrived at 10:53 pm, flames were lapping out of the ... Because Tuesday was "stop day," the day before final exams begin at the university, there were only about 15 persons in the house Monday night."

It is the third one down if this search result URL works correctly:
http://www.google.com/search?q=KU+Stop+Day+history&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Mr&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=NYPkS4mjC4L98Aa29NTDDg&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=more-results&resnum=11&ved=0CEwQ6AIwCg

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
And my contact in the Registrar's office said the same.
However, there was never a week between classes. It went last day of classes, then stop day, then finals started the day after that. Maybe other folks just never had exams until the second week of finals?

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Go Larry Flint! He's pretty awesome. And clearly we need to fill in this important gap in your media education.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
For real. It was pretty horrible to admit that in public. I mean, hello, 1st Amendment and Porn Lady here.

[identity profile] redheadfae.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)

As a total Woody Harrelson fan, I demand you see it. It's also a very complex love story underneath the main story, and Courtney Love actually does a good job in her role as his wife.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If Liberty Hall doesn't have it, will you put it on your Netflix queue for me, please?

[identity profile] redheadfae.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely.

Oh, it's on Instant Play as well, meaning we can watch it anytime through the Wii/Netflix channel. Hm.

Movie night at our place, you and Chris?

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh! Maybe! My dance card is really full at the moment, but next month, totally!
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