A second suggested he was an "unhappy soul" who had succumbed to the temptation "to impersonate the kind of punitive, absolute authority that renders grades to its helpless students as if they really were blessings and curses".
What many of these helpless students put up with is more like The Wire or Oz than a legitimate learning environment.
Hope and Richards wielded daggers over their heads and howled as they set upon the helpless A-level student.
We are helpless and mute, students in a history lesson, alienated from and yet trapped within the collapsing society being detailed on the blackboard.
Benjamin K. Moss '13 wrote in an email that he thinks the University's "lack of communication" left students "helpless and confused" and facilitated the spread of misinformation about such things as locked gates in the Yard.
The workshop instructor observed students exhibiting "helpless" behavior during the first self-test: Students tended to give up at the first point in the cycle where they encountered a structure or process they could not recall, and did not attempt to start over from a different point and work the problem from there.
All this without a single CAD rendering, which today's architecture students are helpless without".
Yet Kasischke remains aware that she works in familiar traditions: her scenes play knowingly with the expectations (the helpless professor seduced by a student, the super-secret women-only ritual) that her precedents raise, from "Buffy" to Euripides' "Bacchae".
After the actors finished, students and faculty members talked for a long time about how students often feel helpless in the hospital, torn between befriending patients with incurable illness and sticking to a professional script.
The student: chubby with the helpless bulk that came from psychiatric drugs, not from excess of enjoyment.
