[RACooper]

The worst I had is what I'd call intentionally a nightmare... it's just that well he's a little eccentric at times.

He is one of the leading scholars of the Roman Empire, and you pretty much have to read a book or article by him if you are researching the period - especially if your looking at political power structures... anyways he's what you'd call a genius. The only problem is that he is a borderline technophobe - can't stand/trust computers (other than playing Civ), email, or anyother new-fangled devices. Now as a result of this distrust of technology, he is not a fan of students using technology, thinks it makes them soft or make plagerization way too easy... so in an effort to combat this he came up with a simple solution (well for him) - all assignments and papers are to be handwritten, with his reasoning that even if you bought or copied the paper you at least had to go through the trouble of writting it out. Needless to say writting a 15000 word paper out by hand was not fun

ETA> oh yeah 20% of your mark was "penmanship".