Lavonda Ann Evans is an instructor of sociology in the sociology and criminology department.
“A student emailed me that they couldn’t come to class because they had food poisoning. They ate expired chicken, but they didn’t think it would make them sick, and so they couldn’t come to class…I mean, what are the chances? That is the most outlandish thing that I have heard of as a way to not come to class.”
Danny Vivar Guerra is an assistant director of student leadership in the student development and leadership department.
“For one of our SGA Senate meetings, it was Halloween themed, and one of the senators dressed up as myself. So she went and bought a wig, some glasses, put on a beard and a name tag, and it was pretty funny.”
Megan Weaver is an adjunct instructor of fine arts in the arts and design department.
“I had a student once who, technically, through excuses, killed her grandma like five times, so they repetitively missed class claiming that their grandma had died throughout the entire semester. So that was one of the worst excuses.”
Natasha Neal is an instructor of political science in the government, law and policy department.
“When I was an advisor, I got a phone call from a parent asking if I could help her contact her son. So I looked him up on the computer, but I wasn’t going to provide her with any information. I asked, ‘Is he presently a student here?’ She was like, ‘Yes, I just gave him a $5,000 check for his tuition.’ And I told her, ‘I can tell you that the last semester he was here was last spring.’ He had dropped out of school, not told his parents, and he was using the tuition money that they were giving him for his apartment rent, because he was actually on academic suspension.”
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF ASTATE.EDU
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