You know...I was just musing in the kitchen and wondering if the guys in the graduate college, especially Steve's advisor, ever thought he would actually graduate! LOL! Remember he kept turning the paper in and never hearing back, over and over till finally he put in to graduate last December because he had completed all his classes and just needed signed off on the thesis? That, if you recall, is when it hit the proverbial fan. Remember, his advisor saying the paper wasn't thesis-worthy and never would be? A fine how do you do after all the times he'd turned in copies of it!
I think a lot of this behavior is make-up for not paying attention in the past as Steve plugged away...one class at a time...year after year.
Most of this stuff, as Peanut Gallery put it, is pre-defense stuff and we shouldn't be dealing with it right now!
I'm on the laptop...it warns me if I'm getting a phone call. So I can freep.
Gotta freep, you know. Heh heh.
Whatever it is, it's not acceptable behavior. They had BETTER get things together.