Sounds about Right
This weekend the Baylor Mock Trial team, consisting of E.P. and others in his glorious vicinity, received a text message from Prof. Powell that read, “. . . –“. Confused, they thought about it, debated, researched, and discovered it was Morse code for the letter ‘V.’ The universal symbol for victory. A celebration of their success.
Today that joy that carried into class as the professor smiled while allotting twenty-five seconds for his two question quiz and six hours for his afternoon mini-trial.
posted by Jon Swanburg @ 7:46 PM
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Is the "V" thing a true story?
As far as I know, yes.
That's a great story - one those team members won't soon forget, and rightly so.
Congrats NTC team members. You deserve it.
Thanks 1:09, and yes, true story. Apparently "..-" is Morse Code for the letter V, and also the basis for Beehtoven's 5th. Tie that all up, and you get victory. Sweet sweet victory.
Moot court =! mock trial.
Why don't you just say the debate team went out to fight the good fight?
Is it just me or would we all have been better off if Powell was born a century ago? He'd have been able to be a Ranger and avoid meeting a candy ass transactional lawyer his entire life, and we would never have known him.
Lest you think Prof PC II went soft, we actually got the ...- text at 7:45 a.m. while on the bus headed to the courthouse for the semi-final round. Not so much a celebration of success as a demand for such.
The story just keeps getting better.
My apologies, TJ. The team name has been changed.
When we went to competition - we got an email from Powell saying something like: "As the Spartan mothers say, Come back carrying your shield or upon it."
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