Her cousin, "Smokey Coke", was there to help celebrate her impressive achievement, on this solemn, significant occasion...
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.
Couple of odd facts. I bet I have known a dozen or more “Dusty Rhoads”, about the same number of “Andy Anderson’s”.
Also when I was a kid in the 50s, it was common to call guys named David, “Butch”.
It’s child abuse.
Give your kid a name they can live with.
I used to respect the Ph.D. and always thought they were very smart and important. Times have changed.
Apparently there is a desire by some people to give their child a name unique in the history of the world. Then they get insulted if its mispronounced or misspelled.
Growing up I knew a girl named Mescaline.
CC
There is currently a Captain James T. Kirk in the Navy.
CC
“Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry,
I thought I’d stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table, dealing stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me Marijuana Pepsi.”
She quit cold turkey and now she’s Pepsi Clear.
No, it was Cache. Her sister was Carry.
There’s an artist named Dustin Nguyen. All he are is Dustin Nguyen.
I knew a family with the last name “Curry”
They had a daughter named Vinda Lou. Pronounced like the type of Cury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindaloo
It’s one of them Horshack tests: conservatives think it’s the future caused by liberalism and liberals think it’s the future caused by conservatism.
Marywanna Pep-C?
Charo has done so much more with only one name.
Bobby Rush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuwgVmw_ztU
Andre Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EayQbZAaiew
Ping!
I’m sure she’s very proud of herself - she has a laughable PhD and a makework job.
“..Dustin Nguyen..”
Ok, that one cracked me up.
How about Warren Peese? (White boy.)
And are you old enough to remember Jello Biafra?
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