Alex Trebek asks a contestant, who boasts that she has slept in a hotel room floating on the Kwai river in Thailand, whether the original bridge (of cinema fame) is still there.

Since the beginning of the semester, the University has received a fairly consistent (and consis­tently bogus, but nonetheless consis­tently disruptive) stream of bomb threats.  One day, one building.   The next, another.  It was almost like some lazy and mischievous under­graduate, displeased with the crepus­cular hour of his first class of the day, decided to send a little email.  A new one for each building for each day of the week.  They were always resolved without incident, and an arrest was made after the second one.  But alack, alas!  The perpe­trators are multi­farious and inde­pendent, engaging in wicked, wicked copycat mischief!  They have continued, [ . . . ]

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As you already know, having thor­oughly read and under­stood the About and Policies pages, I am a law student. I attend a public law school in a key Midwestern swing state. This infor­mation is specific enough to narrow the field to a handful of schools, but not so specific that my professors or fellow students might discover my identity. Such a discovery would likely result in an unpleasant situation, as I fully intend to engage in critical commentary on various aspects of my legal education. To wit ~ Law school began for me last year with a one-​​​​week, “intensive,” intro­ductory course titled “Introduction to Law and Legal Systems.” Oh, thought [ . . . ]

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