No classes today, obviously. Great Festival Day, gentlemen, especially you Calverts. Tomorrow is the last day before Easter Break (and by the way, if any of you heathens calls it "Spring Break" tomorrow, you're getting half-a-pushup).
Tomorrow, I'm not quite sure. Depending on my mood, we may have an aggressive class on compound-complex sentences, or we may have a fun Star Wars themed PT exercise. We'll see how it goes.
As for the Hooper Project, presidential trivia is apparently a big, nasty Hooper smothering you in your sleep. I got 10 wrong answers before I got the first right one. To review: the first one-term president NOT from Massachusetts was Martin van Buren; the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms was Grover Cleveland; and the last pair of consecutive presidents who both served two full terms was James Madison and James Monroe. Some neat related trivia: if President Bush completes his term of office, he and President Clinton will be the only pair of back-to-back two-termers from different political parties. Fascinating stuff, considering the relative stability of our republic over the last 230 years. Gotta hand it to those Founding Fathers: those guys were straight-up Thundercats. Anyway, congrats to Matt Hand, who outlasted his presidential Hooper by finally, belatedly, coming up with the right answer. Good job, Wizard.
Now, before I get into tonight's Hooper Project, keep in mind that I will probably put up a few Hooper specials over Easter break, so those of you mired below sea level might do well to check in on the Writers' Corner over break.
So, tonight, a feel-good sports trifecta. Five points to the first composition student who can slaughter the following athletic Hoopers: (a) What American won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?, (b) Where were those Olympics held?, and (c) Why were the results of this track & field meet event seen as a humiliating defeat for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis? Murder thy Hoopers while ye may!
