 Pot Pepsi, PhD |
Posted on 06/20/2019 5:45:59 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A woman named Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck earned her Ph.D. from Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin with the help of her dissertation, titled: "Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions."
Vandyck, who was born Marijuana Pepsi Jackson 46 years ago, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an interview published Wednesday that she was inspired to choose her dissertation topic on unique black names after living through her own fair share of experiences with her name.
"People make such a big deal out of it, I couldn't get away from it," she told the paper.
Vandyck, who earned her doctoral degree in higher education leadership last month, said she asked black students with similarly unique names at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she earned her bachelor’s degree, about how they were treated differently than other students by teachers.
She said a number of students she interviewed each reported different treatment from their teachers. One experience Vandyck said she and the other students shared was being singled out by a teacher for their names during class attendance.
Vandyck recalled her experience being called out by a teacher at Whitewater in the interview.
"I'm sorry," Marijuana remembered saying in response to the professor. "You didn't ask anyone else that. Why are you asking me? My name is Marijuana, thank you."
Though Vandyck works full time at Beloit College as the head of a program that helps first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds, she said she is also considering working as a professor after earning her doctoral degree.
And, despite her name, Vandyck set the record straight that she doesn’t partake in marijuana use and she barely drinks soda.
Also in my home town. Gene Autry shot Roy Rogers. Can’t recall if they had an additional last name. It was said to have made national news.
I went through the first dozen names on the employee roster and no one had a Ph.D. except a guy in the athletic department and he was a J.D. (Lawyer). Makes you wonder how they’re handling out Ph.D. degrees.
Scrotarius and Toe’nailia have always been favorites of mine.
I hope she included those.
Miss Troy State University one year had the last name, “Rape”.
I had a Great Uncle named “Raper”.
Yes.
Sure beats the nickname of Pot Jackson.
Bad. There were twin white boys down home named Shot and Scrap. Their actual names.
Marijuana Pepsi is not suffering. She enjoys the attention.
She likely enjoys flaming at people who think it’s a dumb name, makes her feel superior. If the name bothered her, she could have changed it as soon as she left home. No one would have known. Instead, she wears the name like a gilded crown full of glittering thorns. I’ve met people like her.
A friend once knew a Crystal Chandal Leer.
My aunt, who worked with medical records in the 1940s and 50s, kept a list of unusual names at Houston’s charity hospital. So weird names are not new.
We had a kid in our home town. First name Tye. Last name Tack. White.
A co-worker’s wife had worked in a maternity ward in a medium sized city. One of their patients named their daughter “Pajama.” Pronounced “PAJ uh muh” Mom thought it was the most beautiful name! She even said she got it from the Sears Catalogue Not White.
Morons. And this one has a pathetically stupid nonsensical name and an attitude about it.
It is a PROPHECY!!!
Any adult in this country can legally change their name to anything they prefer. I have no sympathy for anyone who continues to use a cockamamie name that they were given by a deranged parent. After adulthood these people themselves fully own their ridiculous names.
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Pot Pepsi, PhD |
Though Vandyck works full time at Beloit College as the head of a program that helps first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds, she said she is also considering working as a professor after earning her doctoral degree.
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Doe this mean there are no job offers from for-profit companies?
I’m shocked!!!
The owner of Lear Jet named his Daughter Chrystal Shanda. True story.
Was a shooting few years ago at Cache Monet’s 16th bday party in South Dallas
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Are you sure it wasn’t Count de Monet?
Maybe I’ll be a good doctoral candidate if I change my name to Tobacco Bourbon....
Sounds like something a celebrity would name their baby.
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