Registration is coming up for sophomores (this Saturday) and freshmen (Nov. 1...ouch).  Since lower classmen have little to no chance of taking classes that they are really interested in, here are a few easy courses that fulfill our ridiculous general college requirements:

 

ANTH 567: Urban Ant

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William Sanders, a retired archaeology professor, died July 2 in State College after complications from a fall. "Sanders used an approach called "cultural ecology" to study the interactions of culture and environment in travels that took him to locales including Mexico, Guatemala and

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Overheard by a couple of guys walking around, patting themselves on the back for their econ prowess:

Guy 1: Man, high school was like...the dark ages, you know? Medieval.
Guy 2: You know, it's a common misconception that there were dark ages.

An OTR tipster reports that on on the first day of Physical Anthropology class, the professor informed the class about the (non-human) primatological field work that they would have to do at the end of the quarter. During her explanation one of the students asked the following:

"Well, I volunteer at an aquarium, so can I do my field work there?"

Who would have thought that DNA can be entertaining?

Yesterday in class, after boring slides on protein synthesis and DNA and other crap that should be in a biology class and not an anthropology class, the professor said he had a movie to play.

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At first glance, I thought the cover of the Fall 2007 anthropology course booklet was the front of a really trashy liquor store (possibly the one in Teele Square), meaning that the anthro department is either offering courses in alcoholism across cultures next s... MORE »