Date:    Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:58:39 -0400
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
<br>Subject: Metro Diary Instruction Manual (was Re: RE>bogus anecdotes)
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<br>Hey, Grant -- you go girl! Love your instruction manual!
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<br>FWIW, the Diary beats the heck out of the local attempts at humor. Most
<br>recent attempt of the Daily Beacon was "Best of Crime Log," a
<br>compilation of the most "amusing" crime reports from the campus from
<br>the last year. Ex:
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<br>Tuesday, April 28
<br>*11:25 p.m. KPD requested backup on a vandalism in progress at the
<br>Kingston Apartments G9 parking area.
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<br>Wednesday, April 29
<br>*12:09 a.m. Officer advised that he was transporting the subject
<br>involved in the vandalism of his own vehicle at the Kingston
<br>Apartments to detox.
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<br>(This is the same Daily Beacon which once made it into the columns of New
<br>Yorker Magazine for the ff. sentence: "The semester is not a universal
<br>pancreas.")
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<br>Bethany, wondering if Metro Diary is a genre that should now be introduced
<br>into sophomore lit courses
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