SCHAEFFER HALL—Adam Martin, a UI junior who “wasted” his first two and a half years at the University as a Journalism and Mass Communications major, changed his major to “open” early Monday morning and was suddenly able to discard the No. 2 pencil that has been perched above his right ear since August of 2009.
“We’re sorry to see him go,” said UI journalism professor Frank “Frankie Ding-Dong” Durham. “He was probably the only kid who did any of the reading in my cultural-historical foundations of communication class.”
“Fuck that shit,” Martin explained to The Iowa Iowan regarding Ding-Dong’s class.
“Journalism is about interviewing Bob Dylan for Rolling Stone and spending a year on the couch analyzing LeBron James’s free throws for an incisive GQ profile—not reading stupid articles about the Women’s Rights Movement.”
Looking back, Martin says he’s glad he only worked at the DI for a semester his sophomore year. “This pencil fell out from behind my ear once and the editor at the DI threatened to fire me.”
