Calling All Geeks/tattoo Enthusiasts

What would you as a professor do if a student has a tattoo of formulae he is not allowed to have?

It was advanced calculus with Dr. Segal. He was a real character. With a bald top and curly reddish hair down to his shoulders, he looked like Bozo the Clown with a beard. He sounded like a Jerry Lewis imitation of a mad professor. And he used to bounce back and forth across the front of the room with chalk (this was 1970) in his right hand and an eraser in his left, filling the board with new equations, while erasing the previous pass. He would stop only to hang onto the heating pole in the left corner or the big stick to open the top windows in the right corner, until the class where he yanked that one off the wall. While paused, he would come out with pithy quotes like, “Lobachevsky was a great mathematician, but he was a real bastard.” Or, “If the Arabs had conquered the world, we would evaluate this expression right to left.” etc.Anyway, for one unit, there was THE equation. If you were going to cheat by tattooing an equation on your body or something less drastic, this was the equation. I’m sure the the rest of the class had the same thought, but like me, memorized the darn thing to death. When the exam came, Dr. Segal was standing at the front of the room looking like the cat who ate the canary. When we turned over the exams, the first question was:A Calculus 173 student found the following equation written on the bathroom wall during a break:AND THERE WAS THE EQUATION!Explain it.Derive it. (If you could do this, you certainly didn’t need to cheat!)Use it to solve the following problems……The class burst out laughing, along with Dr. Segal. Sorry, but I can’t remember which equation. It’s been a while. ;<)

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Do hipsters drink craft beer?

The allure to hipsters to the PBR name was attributed by many to the fact that PBR was not marketed along with the "old school" allure of the brand.  The New York Times ran an article on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/2...Of course now PBR is popular with most college students and even those with a bit of gray hair.  So, the hipsters have to move on.  As Jason said, they crave the unknown and unpopular.  By definition, that is start up craft brews.Be careful though, just because someone is drinking an unknown craft beer doesn't make them a hipster.  They could be a beer geek.  Beer geeks seek out the unknown craft beer for the opportunity to try something new and be the first to brag/blog about it.  How do you tell beer geeks from hipsters?  The beer geek will be very unfashionable and talk about the aroma, clarity and hopiness of the beer.  The hipster will be unfashionably fashionable, look exactly like all the other hipsters standing around them, compliment each other about not drinking the mainstream swill or be babbling about Occupying something.