Eternal Flame Sphere

This is a picture of the eternal flame sphere.
Besides being an awesome name for it (you mean "awesome torch of learning" or "light of North Dakota learning" were already taken?) it is the sight of the historic home to the University of North Dakota (I still have problems every once and awhile believing I live in North Dakota, ha ha). Well last night when I was walking back to the apartment (where if reports are to believed, one of the neighbor children is peeing in the pool, ha ha, pee) the flame was out.
So today I came to class and asked the class why this should be important to them (it is interesting to note that at least a third of the class did not where the flame is located {across the quad from the building they are in} and everyone did not know that there was an official name to that "thing" {one student did not want to call it art}). I asked them if the light is out, are they required to learn anything? Or even be in class, shouldn't we all go home (if the light of learning is out, where am I to take guidance in pursuing education?)?
They all laughed at (not with) me, then we sat through a whole class period of book reports (yeesch, this class has a tendency to not help each other out at times and today it seemed as if all of them tuned out at once, although the one student who did his leadership book report on Chuck Norris' book Black Belt Patriotism, got big laughs across the board, it helped that he started out with one of the Chuck Norris jokes and how later he admitted that he did judge the book by its cover, the reason he chose the book was because Chuck looked "pretty cool" on the cover).
Not sure how I feel about today's class.
Better be ready for Wednesday.
Cool.