ICC Professor Finally Able to Get Syllabus Up On Projector Screen, Start Course

CAMPUS — Prof. Lawrence Brauer was finally able to start his European Civilization course Thursday, weeks after the semester began and following endless hours spent in class attempting to get the podium computer, media remote panel, and projector all to work simultaneously in order to display the course’s syllabus on the white screen at the front of his ICC classroom.  “I’m going to have to shave off a few centuries from what this says we’re going to cover,” said a sweaty Brauer during class on Thursday, between reading word-for-word what he had written in the syllabus that was passed out to students in paper form on January 8 and has been available on Blackboard since.  “Wait, why isn’t this scrolling?”  Students said they were disappointed that their days of unfettered in-class Web surfing and comical, half-hearted attempts to assist their professor were over, but were hopeful when the screen suddenly started ascending and Brauer had to go retrieve that foreign guy yet again to try to get it to go back down.