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It’s worth taking a departure from the usual business on Friday’s for the fun geekiness below. These videos shed light on how some Berkeley students are easily distracted from their dissertations (I won’t mention any names, Ben, Jaspal and Mahad

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The University of Iowa is offering extra funding to departments that schedule more Friday classes, as part of an initiative to curb student partying that increasingly begins on Thursday nights and continues through the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 7.

Currently, only about 1,400 classes are held on Fridays at the school, compared to an average of 2,400 from Monday to Thursday. Students and faculty agree that the lack of Friday classes encourages an early start to weekend revelry. “Sometimes a Thursday will definitely beat out a Saturday,” said sophomore Greg Meyer, 20.

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