After classmates were unable to wake Pfluger, Crimson EMT Taylor Chan ’18 was called to the scene from her seat in the front row, but she was unable to revive him. At press time, it is still unclear why Chan, a pre-med student, was taking an Economics course. 

“We didn’t think anything was wrong,” said Pfluger’s TF Ann Brown. “He's always sound asleep in class, and he stays asleep until after I leave. Honestly, I don’t even know what his face looks like.” 

Said Math21a TF Scott Briggs, who teaches section immediately following Pfluger’s Economics 10b section, “I thought he was my student. He’s always just slept through my class.”

Upon further investigation, it was revealed that all sections meeting in Northwest Labs B108 laid claim to Pfluger as enrolled in their section. 

This puzzle was solved when forensics teams determined that Pfluger had actually died several weeks ago, and his body had been left slumped over in the same chair for a month. Due to the student’s habit of sleeping in class, however, his corpse had avoided detection — though the smell had not.

“I mean, it was midterm season, and I just thought he stopped showering,” said fellow Economics 10b student Kate Livingston ’20. “Hm, well, I guess I wasn’t wrong.” 

Pfluger is survived by his roommates, TF, and classmates who posted photos of him on the Ivy League Snap Story captioned, “rip lmao midterms got me like.”