I’m proud to introduce well-known literature professor David Jennings, here on loan from Faber College in Pennsylvania, who is taking a break from his regular teaching duties, and from wrestling with that novel (yes, he’s still wrestling with it 44 years later), in order to head up this new exam. But there need be no more worry-the newest addition to the faculty has come up with what I believe is the best, most comprehensive, most probing and, yes, most demanding quiz yet. Well, it seems the SLIFR University staff managed to finagle themselves a semester off, as there ended up not being a back-to-school autumn quiz to follow up Professor Julius Kelp’s Endless Summer Chemistry Test. One student says that it must be very good Jennings tells you his entire life story with the sentence, 'It's a piece of shit.' We like to think that if the world of Animal House were real and persistent, Jennings would still be working on his piece of shit." When that's met with vintage freshman silence, he first grudgingly admits that Milton's boring, then exasperatedly yells, 'That doesn't excuse you from this material! I'm serious! This is my job!' The other is when he gets stoned with three students and confesses that teaching is just his day job while he's finishing the novel he started eight years ago. First is Jennings attempting to elicit some insight from his freshman students regarding Milton's Paradise Lost. "It's not that Donald Sutherland's Professor Jennings is necessarily a great teacher, it's that amidst all the National Lampoon -style zaniness and goings-on of Animal House, he manages to embody a quintessential aspect of the college experience: the washed up artist trapped inside the dank, tangled world of academia.
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