Bam! I was thinking the exact two same words. That would be awesome if the dude did that. He could pay-per-view when he hands in the paper -- I'd pay to see those sanctimonious assclowns get owned by this guy. These are the kinds of students you want in your school -- creative, a little rebellious and intelligent. Of course, the admins want good little worker bees that adhere to proper margins and typography.
I would be tempted to even dust off the 'ol Comic Sans just for this. They definitely wouldn't deserve a real font.
Yes, I realize he'd likely get kicked out of school, but when Wired does a story on the guy, he won't have any problems getting into a better school.
In the spirit of assignment, since they don't specify the kerning, you could just s u b m i t y o u r .. you get the idea. (HTML is going to eat them, but pretend like there's a ton of space between each character.)
Once knew a bloke at Harvard who got in a bureaucratic situation where he had to hand in an essay for a class. Didn't have to be good or even pass, just had to be an essay.
So in a fit of rage, he wrote the worst essay he could. Bad sources, bad style of writing, bad grammar, stupid logic, insane conclusion, everything.
Other Harvard students who'd read it told me it was a comic masterpiece.
Type a 5-6 research paper...
What is a "5-6" research paper? Even sadder is the officious and petty tone:
The paper must be in 12 point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced with one-inch margins...
I know what my response would be: two words, one page, 150 pt font.