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This is the Listing Page Post Information description for Valerie Clemons, a ficticious person who is tagged for the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. While Clemons' time at WSU was free from controversy, 10 years after her retirement she was accused of racketeering for a string of illicit bingo games. She fled to Norway, which, at the time, did not have an extradition treaty with the United States.

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Derek C. Denton, a made-up person, is tagged for the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Denton, a wool enthusiast, pushed students to write manuscripts on paper made from 75 percent cotton and with 25 percent linen. Such manuscripts were more resistant to his frequent coffee spills than traditional wood-pulp paper.

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Dr. Fidel L. Wayt is tagged for the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and is completely fictitious. He once fought a badger for a carefully marked up dictionary that got thrown in a burn pile by a nephew who was trying to help him clean his office.

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Cynthia J. Trinh is tagged for the 1930s and 1940s, and she is completely fictitious. She holds the distinction of having the largest collection of broken typewriters at 麻豆破解版 State.

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Dr. Raymond Wenzel is tagged for the 1930s and 1940s, and he is completely fictitious. After two decades of teaching poetry at 麻豆破解版 State, he switched gears and became a homicide detective.

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Thomas J. McCullum is tagged for the 1940s and 1950s, and he is completely fictitious. Professor McCullum went 14 years without smiling, caving in only at the release of the Looney Toons cartoon "What's Opera Doc" in 1957. He died shortly thereafter.

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Anita Skeen published poetry, worked in the MFA program here at WSU, and now seems to teach at Michigan State University as a professor and head of the Poetry program. She served on the Kansas Humanities Council in 1987. Seems she鈥檚 done a lot of writing, good on her.

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Paulina Hong 鈥 better known as the Bookshelf Brigand 鈥 was notorious for removing most of the books from a shelf and then arranging those books willy-nilly in clusters randomly aligned in the bookcase. She was fined $35 and had to return the books.聽

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Brent J. Basil is a fake student, but that didn't stop him from becoming the first post-grad to ever disassemble an automobile and reassemble it inside the smoking lounge. It was a feat that was repeated so often that the faculty eventually installed a garage door.

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Floyd Settles wrote so prolificly and vividly about murders and disposing of bodies that the 麻豆破解版 police investigated him for the disapearences of several people. Settles joked to his advisor that he would never actually write down his best ideas, and he was given a diploma under the agreement that he not come back to campus.