Chapter 45: The Unlucky Xie Dun
The next day, after Shiler finished class, he collected homework on time as usual, but today he found that all 32 assignments in the class were neat and tidy, and judging by the thickness, it seemed that everyone had written enough words.
He was a little strange. Although he urged homework very tightly, there were always one or two people who didn't hand it in. Among those who handed it in, many people were fooling around, writing two pages of paper casually, sandwiching a pile of white paper in the middle, or simply copying some articles and handing them in.
But this time, he stood on the podium and flipped through it roughly, finding that everyone had actually written the paper seriously. Although some wrote not very well, it could be seen that they had never written a paper before, but they were all trying to lean towards the topic. Although the wording was like a desperate illiterate, at least they all tried not to run off-topic.
The students saw him flipping through the homework and didn't dare to breathe. Usually at this time, it was almost time to get out of class, and the students were packing things, but now no one had any movement, all honestly waiting in their seats for Shiler to speak.
The reason for this situation was very simple. Just last night, the whole class knew that in order to chase Evans for homework, Shiler went directly to the underground king of Cat Getan, Falcone.
In the era without Batman, let's call this era the "Pre-Batman Era". In this era, the person with the greatest right to speak in Cat Getan is Falcone and the twelve gang families under his rule.
How big is the power of this group of gang families? Sal Maroni, the hegemon of the East District, is just a running dog of the Lauren family, and the Lauren family ranks at the bottom of the twelve gang families.
The first one is the Falcone family, and the old godfather Falcone has the final say on the twelve families.
In this era, you may not know who the mayor of Cat Getan City is, or even who Bulusi Wei En is, but you must know the surnames of Falcone and other twelve gang families, otherwise you can't survive in Cat Getan at all.
Since knowing that Shiler chased homework to the godfather of Cat Getan, the homework-making process of all students last night was quite thrilling.
Shiler was rarely very happy, so he said: "The situation of this homework looks optimistic. It seems that everyone has finished writing quite seriously. Later, after I finish grading these homework, I will add an extra ten usual points to everyone. For the few who wrote better, if you don't have the intention to study for a graduate degree, you can come to my office to talk about recommendation letters..."
As a result, warm applause actually sounded in the classroom. I don't know if it was for the reward Shiler said, or for themselves who survived the disaster.
And all this was seen by the principal Xie Dun.
This person Xie Dun is called persistent if it sounds good, and stubborn if it sounds bad. Whoever he targets, he will definitely try every means to get him. Although Shiler's tough attitude made him unable to start immediately, he had been looking for opportunities.
The principal can mobilize the surveillance cameras in all classrooms of Cat Getan University and observe the teacher's teaching situation. This function has become the best way for Xie Dun to monitor Shiler.
In the next few days, in Shiler's classroom, all students were as quiet as quails. Evans automatically took on the duties of the class monitor, collecting homework, handing in homework, distributing homework, and organizing classroom discipline every day. The entire teaching situation was orderly, and no one could pick out any flaws.
This gave Xie Dun an illusion.
Originally, when he worked in the academic affairs office at Princeton, most students were at this level. After coming to Cat Getan University, he was busy standing firm, and didn't take the initiative to understand the students' level. In his view, writing homework was the student's duty. Although Cat Getan University's ranking was not as good as Princeton's, it seemed that the students' quality was not much worse.
At least in Shiler's classroom, this was the case.
Xie Dun only cared about observing Shiler's classroom, and in Shiler's classroom, all students were very quiet, learning tasks were completed quite well, which made Shiler's teaching arrangements completed very smoothly.
So Xie Dun had other thoughts.
As everyone knows, the campus prohibition he pushed was stuck in an up-and-down position.
Most of the people willing to follow this plan had handed in the alcohol, but those who were unwilling were the die-hard elements among them. This group of people would rather resist with guns than let the school interfere with their right to drink.
Students could resist with guns, but Xie Dun, the principal, couldn't hold a gun to force students not to drink. He wasn't a native Cat Getan local, and his thinking was still in a civilized society, so this plan was stuck in a quite awkward position and couldn't be pushed forward.
Finding that they didn't eat the punishment wine, Xie Dun wanted to toast again.
Before Xie Dun served as administrative work, he was also a professor. He graduated from the Modern Literature major at Oxford University and had taught at the University of California and Metropolis University.
Xie Dun felt that to control Cat Getan University, he must also get along with students, just like Harvey, who was welcomed by everyone, which was also a good route.
Therefore, he wanted to teach a course himself.
Coincidentally, Cat Getan University's literature department was almost non-existent. There was only one teacher teaching basic courses, and literature and philosophy majors hadn't recruited students for many years. After all, this damn ghost place really didn't have any soil for literature and philosophy.
Revitalizing the literature department and taking the lead in reviving the literature major, if he could recruit a batch of literature students taught by himself, then he would have his own direct line in this school. Xie Dun planned it this way.
And it seemed that Shiler's classroom was very comfortable, and the teaching goals were pushed forward quite well. In short, the sky cleared, the rain stopped, and Xie Dun felt he could do it again.
Although he was a university professor, the process of class and teaching primary school didn't have much difference. Xie Dun was like a cloud player watching videos, watching Shiler teach on the other side of the monitor, feeling easy and relaxed.
The process of Shiler's class was just walking into the classroom, waiting for the students to sit down, and then taking out the textbook to start lecturing. In the middle, there would be one or two discussion sessions. After the discussion, either Shiler asked questions, or the group sent people to speak. After speaking, Shiler conducted a summary, and then talked about other content. At the end of class, he collected homework, and the beginning of the next class would have a review session of homework.
The university classroom in the 20th century was like this. There were no fancy slides. Most teachers were reading from the book. For subjects like psychology that required a lot of memorization, it was even more so. If you didn't explain the book thoroughly, you wouldn't want to learn anything clearly.
This process looked at the video of the classroom, and indeed there was no difficulty. If the students cooperated, they could even finish the teaching goals in advance, and when it was almost over, they could chat for a while.
Since the students became particularly obedient, Shiler was also willing to chat with them about the crazy killers he had seen before. Although Shiler had forgotten many details because of amnesia, this legendary experience still made this group of hairy boys listen with relish. They found that this particularly strict professor indeed had his merits.
When announcing the establishment of the Literature Department, Xie Dun fired the teacher of the basic literature course, and then went into battle himself to start teaching.
Just like most cloud players of game videos, when watching videos, they feel they can do it themselves, pointing fingers in the God's perspective, but when they really reach the game, they are basically killed and defeated, and quitting and deleting the game and refunding is done in one go.
Xie Dun was no exception.
After really starting class, he found that Shiler's classroom was a complete illusion. There was no obedient student here at all. Basic literature courses and basic psychology courses were somewhat similar in some respects, that is, they required a lot of memorization and also required writing papers.
The first time homework was handed in, dozens of assignments in the whole class, only two were handed in, one of which only wrote half the number of words.
Xie Dun took out his tough politician style and severely criticized this behavior of not handing in homework in class. As a result, the second time homework was handed in, not a single one was handed in.
If it were science courses like mathematics and physics, some people were naturally more interested. Basic literature courses like this, which were redundant and boring, would not have any Cat Getan University students listen carefully at all.
Students did everything in class. Sleeping was already considered a relatively good hobby. Eating, talking loudly, pressing game controllers with a "pop" sound, and even flying leaves in public.
No matter how Xie Dun shouted, no one paid attention to him. Even if he was so angry that he slammed the door and left, it was just that this class became equally chaotic self-study.
Xie Dun also didn't understand Cat Getan. If he understood, he would know that the students were already good enough. The people who could go to university in this city, the quality was really high enough.
In this city, there was no threat to classmates with guns, no physical bombing of the school, and no kidnapping of teachers and professors. The students in Cat Getan could already be called the civilized standard-bearers of this city.
But Xie Dun was still almost angered to death by them.
Especially since many students knew that the damn prohibition was made by Xie Dun, so they began to protest in Xie Dun's classroom. Someone took a whole box of champagne, pulled out the stopper in the front row, sprayed it at Xie Dun, drenched him in alcohol, and even organized a drinking party in class.
Xie Dun shouted to deduct credits and expel them. These people didn't care at all. Xie Dun expelled two students, and the remaining students became even more crazy. As a result, on a dark night, Xie Dun was walking in the school and was smashed in the head by two wine bottles thrown by someone in the bushes, and was hospitalized.
He couldn't figure out why the students who were as obedient as quails in Shiler's classroom all became crazy extremists when they came to him.
Maybe it was just that he hadn't heard Shiler say one sentence: Here, the only thing that can deal with criminals is criminals. ===== CHAPTER 46 =====
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