High Gas Prices Cancel Classes

[Rhino]

Oklahoma College Ends Friday Classes to Save Gas Money for Students
Thursday, November 22, 2007

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — With gasoline prices hovering around $3 a gallon, an Oklahoma college is eliminating Friday classes to help reduce commuting costs for its students.

Rose State College currently offers 60 minute classes on Monday, Wednesday and alternating Fridays and 75 minute classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. With the schedule change, Monday and Wednesday classes will switch to the 75 minute format starting in the spring semester.

"It helps out the students and saves them one trip a week here," said Ric Baser, vice president of academic affairs. "We are a commuter campus, so we were really paying attention to that."...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312556,00.html

[DesertFox]

They just ruined a buncha incipient romances, incipiating.

[Lubbock]

Starbucks coffee is going for upwards of $500.00 a gallon.

A GALLON.

So today I truly have something to be thankful for: I will be dead and in my grave before I have to suffer through a world in which the idiot graduates from the Hallowed Halls of Higher Learning are at the helm.

You younger folks have my deepest sympathy.

[DoctorDoom]

Such a crushing burden! How can the young'uns survive such an economic catastrophe? :rolleyes:

[Beowulf]

Starbucks coffee is going for upwards of $500.00 a gallon.

A GALLON.


No biggy here. I don't like Starbucks. Dunkin Donuts coffee rules!

[DesertFox]

Folgers classic roast.