A non-Apostolic beard story

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> The following story was found on the internet and I thought I 
> would pass it along.  Pretty interesting.
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> Classroom revolt sheds light on facial hair, power dynamics

Some kids skip class because the TA's don't show up, and one of them
muses that maybe his scratchy face had something to do with it.

C'mon, the essay was a humor column, a parody, a joke.  It's like
saying that Halley's comet is wasp-waisted because the moon is made of
green cheese.

Okay, a better example would be that because both crime and ice cream
sales go up when the whether gets warmer, ice cream obviously causes
crime and thus should be banned.

The kid wrote about defying authority in a "Marxism" class (huh? -they
still teach that?).  I skipped class all the time, and I was normally
clean-shaven through college.  I didn't see it as an exercise in "power
dynamics" and neither did the author of that essay until he was given
an assignment in his journalism class.  More than likely, he just
didn't feel like shaving that week, and he decided to write a humorous
little essay about it.

Those of you who've been to college know the bizarre turns your thought
processes can take sometimes.  My buddies and I came up with ridiculous
theories and conspiracies all the time, but we didn't think for a second
that they were true.

Richard "it's called creative license" Masoner
richardm@cd.com