WHITE-GRAVENOR 311— While admitting that the department chair will “probably raise hell about this,” Sociology Professor Bill Valentine waived the course’s enrollment cap and signed the add/drop form of the embalmed corpse of Andrew Jackson to allow the deceased former president to take his “Sociology of Dying” course. “I’ve heard the University’s rationale about cracking down on class size, but I’m here to teach because I love working with the University’s most engaged students and cadavers of former chief executives,” said Valentine while adding that he was not worried about going a little over the limit nor about the fact Jackson is perpetually interred at the Hermitage outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Valentine praised the seventh president’s first-hand experience with death and saw him as a valuable asset to class discussion. “When I looked into his [formaldehyde ridden] eyes I saw a student who was really engaged with the learning process,” said Valentine. “I think he’s going to do great things later in life.” Valentine also noted that his action was not without precedent as the University had allowed the ghost of Prime Minister Robert Walpole to audit several accounting courses.