Jun 17 2008
Here’s an F and a subpoena
This is a fascinating article about a lawsuit that a professor filed against her students for “intellectual distress”, which was caused by their questioning of her theories. What’s particularly interesting is that the students were interested enough to actually openly challenge her in class. That is probably indicative of the caliber of student at Dartmouth. At my school, we would have read the student paper and tuned her out.
I had a couple colorful professors in college. One was an Astronomy professor that spoke such poor English, he forgot the word for planet one time and called it a “biggie”. In fact, I payed more attention in that class, because my friend and I were grossly engaged in the compilation of a glossary of words our professor used. Somewhere in a dusty box, I have the glossary and I hope that for the sake of science, I can uncover it. One day the future of the “biggie” may hinge on key scientists knowing that Ert means Earth.
