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pass by catastrophe
Pass by catastrophe refers to any number of popular urban legends in academia claiming that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been affected by the event are automatically awarded passing grades on the grounds that there would then be no way to assess them fairly and they cannot be penalized for the catastrophe.
=="Roommate suicide" legend==
One common version of this story is that if a student's roommate commits suicide, the surviving student will be awarded straight As for that semester.〔 This version provides the premise for the films ''Dead Man on Campus'' and ''The Curve'', as well as episodes of several television series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grade Expectations )〕
In his book ''Curses! Broiled Again!'', urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand investigated the claim that a student whose roommate commits suicide will receive straight As for that semester. He could not find any college or university which actually had such a rule.〔 Sociologist William S. Fox described this legend and variants, such as the rule applying to any death of a roommate; he also concluded that the claim has no basis in fact. The website Snopes rates the story as false.〔
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