"You Got Daved" is Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience

Dave attends a class twice a week that is forging a new future into the high-tech arena, well, when it works that is probably a true statement. National Sovereignty and Human Rights takes place in Furst 201 and 245 Lexington (in a certain undisclosed room) simultaneously. One day a week the prof lectures from Midtown and one day from Uptown. All the while both men and women are on camera and multiple screens trying not to snicker, snooze or scratch too much. The average class has turned into a gameshow, each group trying to answer first, trying to impress the prof and seem the smarter sex. This author is quite sure that things will settle down with time, students, Beren and Wilf alike, will learn to listen to each other, will not giggle or make quite remarks unheard across town.

However "You Got Daved" is not a place for social commentary, well, perhaps it is, but the comic effort must come first. Aha! The story finally approaches:

Not two weeks ago the political science students sat quietly listening intently to the prof who was lecturing from Beren campus that day. The sitting was getting uncomfortable.

Allow this author a moment to explain the room. Perhaps half a million dollars had been invested in the technology to allow for this class to happen, but not a penny had been spent on the room's furnishings. Students sat in the same metal folding chairs that the Rav's students had sat in two scores previously (forty years).

Not unlike every other class we had sat through, people had begun to mill around outside the door looking in on this new classroom "ooohing" and "aaahing".

"Dave, can you please shut the door?" the prof asked.

Dave, or course, immediately got up, walked over to the door and closed it, turned around and walked back to his chair.

CRASH

Dave's chair broke into two distinct pieces as he sat down on it. Dave lay flat on his tush for almost a minute while the rest of the room erupted in the kind of laughter which always evokes tears. While Dave's tush hurt from impact, it was his side that was throbbing from the laughter that ensued. Class re-established order within a few minutes, but the chair was never the same again. Such a break has actually never happened before to Dave in college. Obviously, the time had to be right; in this situation Dave had been recorded in front of a live studio audience.

A week later, at a lecture in midtown for the class, the prof approached Dave and asked that Dave test the chair he was planning on sitting on for the night.

"This is a nice room and we have some very important people here tonight, please be careful not to break anything."