Respected Professor Forced to Talk About Drugs.

Springfield, MO --- At approximately one in the afternoon, a well respected and tenured professor in anthropology was forced to answer a student's inane and completely unrelated question about drugs. The professor, Dr. Suzanne Walker-Pacheco, who undoubtedly spent long hours buried under books and notes just to better understand the fields of anthropology, genetics, evolution, and primatology, was giving a lecture to her Anthropology 227 class about the structure and function of DNA when some student in the back of the class raised his hand. Most likely thrilled with the prospect of enlightening this student and furthering his understanding of a subject she has a genuine passion for, the 2008 winner of the Leslie Hewes Award: best social science article published in Great Plains Research, the 2006 winner of the College Award for Excellence in Research, the 2005 winner of the College Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the recipient of other awards called on him. The student, presented with the opportunity to have an expert in the field clarify something for the whole class, or to bring up an interesting and relevant topic the professor might have some unique insight to, instead asked if the people who discovered the structure of DNA were under the influence of the popular drug LSD. Dr. Suzanne Walker-Pacheco, probably too stressed about things such as her doctoral thesis to learn about or have much knowledge of hallucinogenic drugs, admitted she didn't know if they did LSD or not, but that the story sounded like an urban legend. As of press time, the class ran out of time to discuss gene replication in detail, but they can read about it in their textbooks.