(distance professor deviates from textbook)^(level of boredom + sleepiness felt during class) / (professor's teaching skills) = (amount of course material learned from Wikipedia)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html

Why is this news? A college history department allowing Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia) to be cited as a source, that would be news.

From the vaults of Wikipedia vandalism. It's not quite as sexy as our Harry Potter-ized European/WWI/WWII slash-i-tastic orgy ( ;) ), but it gets an E for Effort.

( Andrew Jackson would be sad. )