REISS — Calling it one of the more anxious moments of his educational life Theology Professor Andrew Walter managed slide through his THEO 434 Seminar without doing the reading.

“I just have a lot going on in other classes right now, okay?” said Walter who watched four uninterrupted hours of Netflix the day before teaching his weekly upperclassman seminar in Reiss to “just decompress a little, ya know?”.

“Man was I put on the spot a lot today,” he continued. “I thought they were gonna call me out for sure. Like when they kept asking ʻwhat does the author mean by…ʼ or ʻhow can you reconcile his thesis with our previous reading?ʼ That was some clutch side stepping.”

“Yeah, he just kept asking us what we thought,” said Mary Turner (Col ʼ14) who sits in the back far corner of Reiss 272. “I didnʼt really know how to react. I didnʼt do the reading.”

The uncomfortableness reached its peak midway in the two hour seminar when no one was able to recall the authorʼs name of the reading.

Instead most the department seminar, entitled Protestant Reformation and Church Doctrine in the 18th Century, was spent focusing on a tangent weaving together pop culture, personal stories, and outlandish things said by the class clown.

“They thought they were distracting me,” said Walter. “It was actually the other way around.”

Walter stressed that he was “totally” planning on doing the reading. “Nowʼs just not so good with papers and stuff,” he said. “Definitely later.”

Provost John Q. Pierce said in an email he was “concerned” about Walterʼs classroom performance and would “definitely” talk to him after he “totally” got through professor evaluations.

At press time it was confirmed that, in fact, no one had done the readings for the class all semester.