I know. (How the heck did I miss the thread

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But aside from that. I mean right now real students have, as mentioned, for example, report personally to the secretariate if they can't attent a required lecture and get judged by the secretary before they can get back to bed (at least that's roughly what the rules say, most university's say wtf to that as well)
I can imagine with someone like Ponder in a responsible place, to keep things quite more organized, students have to report inability to attend an required lecture personally. No matter if they suffer from Pox, pest or are dead...(latter has never stopped anyone in AM, now did it?)