This weekend, a friend posted this video from The Onion News Network.   We watched it and agreed that, yes, the featured protester near the beginning of the video, Lynn Holzer, did look a hell of a lot like former Longwood Spanish professor Susan Hildebrandt.  Dr. Hildebrandt, who moved this summer to teach at Illinois State University, we remembered as a fan of fake news.  Walk by her office in third floor Grainger and you sometimes heard The Colbert Report.  And didn’t she once tell us in Span 201 about how her friend works for The Onion?  Possibly — our Spanish comprehension skills always wavered between sucky and non-existent.  

We contacted her and learned that, yes, it was her.  Effin’ fabulous.  Dr. Hildebrandt said that she took a train up to New York in April and had a great time filming the segment and seeing her BFF, who is head writer for The Onion News Network.         

So that’s all the news for today.  Oh, and Longwood has moved up to #8 in The U.S. News and World Report ranking of Top Public Master’s Universities in the South.  Hell yeah — we’ll take that.

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