Three people refused to answer when called upon today in my class. They will not be returning and their examinations will not be marked - take heed of their mistake. The possession of a cause is admirable, but it does not excuse you from doing as you told by an authority. Especially if that authority has a short temper and a cruel sense of humour.
In addition, I am both happy and contractually obligated to inform those of you in the Anthropology department who are accompanying me on our archaeological expedition to Abydos that your final payments should be made to the bursar by the end of the month (Monday April 30th 2012). Failure to adhere to this deadline will result in your place on the expedition being withdrawn and the deposit you have already paid will be seized and used to buy new treasures for the Anthropology department's Professorial Retirement Vault.
Furthermore, it should be noted that many of the older tombs still retain powerful curses placed on them by the priests of Osiris and Anubis. Proper priests, who knew what they were doing! Unlike the acolytes of johnny-come-lately gods like the Greeks or, by the blood, the Norse, a good old-fashioned Egyptian curse can have lethal power even several millennia later. Because of this, you should all have returned your release forms by now, absolving the university of any criminal responsibility in the event that your soul is painfully torn out of your body and devoured by goblins, or spirit crocodiles, or whatever. Again, without those consent forms you will NOT be permitted to enter any tomb not signed off by one of our reincarnate associates trained in the detection of hexes, I simply cannot stress this enough. I refuse to compound the agony of having to watch my beloved students being nightmarishly consumed by the dark forces of the underworld with the inconvenience of facing police charges upon our return to the United States.