Nightmare professors - Page 2

ZTAngel · #16 11-18-2005, 09:08 PM

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Originally posted by Dionysus
Did these profs get fired because of the students, or something unrelated?

The prof I'm speaking of was fired because of the students.

aephi alum · #17 11-18-2005, 09:25 PM

Let's see...

There was the assistant professor who told me that I should drop his class because if I didn't, he was going to fail me because I was not a mechanical engineering major.

There was the clueless TA who once started off a recitation section by asking, "Do you have anything in particular that you want me to cover today?" The prof had just introduced a very difficult concept in the previous lecture, so we all asked the TA to cover that. He said, "Okay, that's what I will NOT talk about today." I walked out on the spot and never went back - I sat in on a different section for the rest of the semester.

And my favorite: I had a professor who once wrapped up his prepared lecture with 5 minutes left to go in the hour, so he said, "I've got 5 more minutes, so I'm going to talk a little bit about my current research." Nobody listened or took notes because it wasn't on the curriculum. Nonetheless, he put it on the final!

Profs weren't supposed to put anything on tests that wasn't on the curriculum, but he justified it by saying that he'd covered it in lecture, so it was fair game... we all got burned.

carnation · #18 11-18-2005, 10:56 PM

During the course of obtaining 3 degrees, I had some super profs and others who really stunk.

There were, of course, a couple of foreign TAs whom we couldn't understand. Par for the course back then. Then there was one who was senile and gave us the same lecture several times.

There was a Soil Fertility professor who started the course with, "Any guys in here who are majoring in floriculture? Well, you're faggots." And an elderly Ag Economics professor who said, while lecturing to over 60 guys and me about cattle: "And now I'm going to use washing machines as an example so that Miss Carnation here can understand."

It's hard when you're a professor and you know of a colleague acting unprofessionally, as in AGDee's example. A few years ago at the college where I teach, there was a biology professor who kept coming to his 8 AM classes stinking drunk. He would slam into the board and fall asleep against it and the class would just sit there laughing and watch him...being freshmen, they didn't complain. When I found out from my students, it was hard getting the message across to the department chair, who really didn't want to hear it. Worse yet, he wanted me to teach the guy's courses when he finally dumped him mid-semester. Yeah, right, I really wanted to teach a 3-course overload for no extra money.

JenMarie · #19 11-18-2005, 11:09 PM

I had a Psych professor that administered a test that about 80% of the class got lower than a C-. Obviously there was something that wasn't getting through to us. Instead of going over the test answers and finding out what went wrong, she wanted to proceed with new material after handing back the results because she wanted to focus on keeping the top 20% of the class interested.

We eventually coersed her into going over the test answers in detail.

DeltAlum · #20 11-18-2005, 11:15 PM

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Originally posted by aephi alum
There was the assistant professor who told me that I should drop his class because if I didn't, he was going to fail me because I was not a mechanical engineering major.

That just reminded me...

Daughter number one graduated with a 3.96 GPA. Her only B was in a voice class -- because she wasn't a voice major, and the prof didn't feel you should get an A unless you were.

honeychile · #21 11-18-2005, 11:27 PM

Where to start...

-The professor who falsely accused me of something, took me to Honors Court, and lost, and wasn't allowed to fail me in the class. So, he gave me a D- and his lover (the male professor of another class I was taking, not knowing of their relationship) gave me an F. Until then, I had a 3.8 average. The first guy became Chairman of the Department for a while, which is why I will never donate a cent to the university!

-The professor on a Holocaust Studies class, who talked of nothing but Cannabalism, yet asked me if I was seeing the school psychiatrist for dropping his class! Left after rape charges were filed against him (not by me).

-The professor whose final was 90% of the grade - and NO ONE in the class knew any of the material! The woman behind me sobbed during the whole 20 minutes she stayed, then gave up. He was forced to use our midterm exams for our final grade. In this case, the Chairman of the Department was wise enough to see the problem, and took it upon himself to ask the class what happened.

Yet, the major of the professors I had were adaquate to superb!

recentASAalum · #22 11-19-2005, 01:25 PM

my college professors weren't to bad... my only complaint is their command of the Englich language...

In high school though my friend and I took physics our senior year, the teacher told the two of us within the first two weeks of the semester that we were too dumb to be in her class and that we would never pass. After that we hated it and started a countdown to the end of the semester. We both got the lowest D possible.

ZetaPhi708 · #23 11-19-2005, 08:04 PM

I have not had this professor but this one makes me mad as hell...

I had heard that he has an obsession with people wearing hats (either males or females ) in his classes and he makes everyone take off hats in class.

In my research on the "rate my professor" website, I read that he made and/or forced a quadrapalegic take his/her hat off in class. If I had been in that class, I would have probably been restrainted as I would have had to open up a can of verbal "whoop-ass" on this professor for the way he treated a handicapped student. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination against anyone.

AOIIBrandi · #24 11-19-2005, 10:56 PM

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Originally posted by ZetaPhi708
I have not had this professor but this one makes me mad as hell...

I had heard that he has an obsession with people wearing hats (either males or females ) in his classes and he makes everyone take off hats in class.

In my research on the "rate my professor" website, I read that he made and/or forced a quadrapalegic take his/her hat off in class. If I had been in that class, I would have probably been restrainted as I would have had to open up a can of verbal "whoop-ass" on this professor for the way he treated a handicapped student. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination against anyone.

While I agree that forcing a quadripalegic to take off a hat is taking things too far I don't think it was really discrimination. It would have been discrimination if he only enforced the policy on the handicap student. From what you say it sounds as if he was enforcing the policy equally on all students.

I also don't think it is wrong for a teacher to have a no hat policy in class. I believe that all ettiquete states that a male should not wear a hat indoors - a rule which I personally believe should go both ways. Plus depending on the hat it could be a distraction. I'm sure this policy was on the sylabus which means all students were aware of the rule at the beginning of the semester. If they could not abide by a seemingly silly rule maybe they should have dropped and taken another professor.

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copacabana · #25 11-20-2005, 04:32 AM

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Originally posted by ZetaPhi708
In my research on the "rate my professor" website, I read that he made and/or forced a quadrapalegic take his/her hat off in class. If I had been in that class, I would have probably been restrainted as I would have had to open up a can of verbal "whoop-ass" on this professor for the way he treated a handicapped student. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination against anyone.

I don't understand how that is seen as discriminating. He would have been discriminating against the quadraplegic student had he allowed the student to keep his hat on rather than making him take it off. As was said in the previous response, he enforced the policy equally on all students and potentially could have been seen as being unfair had he exempted a student from the policy (on a personal note, I too think it is going a little far to make someone take off a hat when they are going to have obvious difficulty with it, like in that situation. But then again, I think that rule is dumb in the first place...) On that note, I had a high school spanish teacher who would allow girls to wear hats in class, but never guys. She stated it was because "with girls, the hat is part of the outfit. But with boys, hats are just a distraction". As if the huge and often ridiculous hats this lady would wear to class weren't a distraction...

Jeff OTMG · #26 11-20-2005, 02:39 PM

Of course there were a few who didn't speak English very well, but that only lasted until I began informing the registrar that if a prof could not speak English that I would have them repeat the statement over and over again for the entire period until they got it right and would NOT allow the class to continue. I was steered toward the correct profs and TA's from that point on and never had to put up with someone who didn't have r's in their alphabet.

The only prof I had a problem with was a retired Air Force Lt. Col. The problem was that I was 26 years old, worked graveyard, so I took a morning class with a bunch of 20 year old full time students. My shift was officially over at 07:30 and class began at around 08:15, but problems with the system during the night might put me 5-15 mins late. I ride motorcycles, at the time I had been riding for 12 years. I would show up in class in boots, leather chaps, jacket, and gloves. I don't think the prof like my looks being an old AF computer dweeb. When I was late I was very careful to slip into class and take the end seat on the last row so as not to disturb the class. One day he stopped the class and berated me for being late and disturbing the class. I responded that until he began his rant nobody else in class had even known that I had come in. He said that if I was late again that he would kick me out. I told him that since I was paying for for the class that he was my employee. He worked for me, he would continue to teach, and I wasn't going anywhere. He said that he would call campus police and have me removed. I told him to be sure that they were bigger and tougher than me and to have my tuition refund check ready because so long as I paid for a seat in that class, at that time, it was mine to do with as I please. By this time he realized, from the other students reaction, that he was looking like a fool in front of the class and I never heard a peep out of him after that.

The class was Systems Analysis and Design, which was a GREAT class and I learned a lot. I never got below an 85 on any test or assignment, yet he gave me a D for the semester. I took it to the department head and it was raised to a B.

Tom Earp · #27 11-20-2005, 03:08 PM

Two:

1. Geology Prof. What a Twit Tried to eplain some Weather Items to Him. Hell He had never been to th Tongonoxie Split!

2. First Law Prof. Get each Sem. Over. Second was much Smarter and a Greek!

We did have an Ale or Two Together! Discussed Law!

Got a call from one, (Economics) and We went Flying for an afternoon!

Yep, Any Instructor will get a Burn OUT. Sad, The Students are the losers of the whole deal!

TENURE is the Key!

KSUViolet06 · #28 11-21-2005, 01:10 AM

Freshman year, I had an Oral Communications class that was one part lab and one part lecture. The lecture professor was the same prof for all the sections. He was AWFUL.

The class had 400 people in it. There was a sign in sheet for attendance.

The lecture was an hour long, and if he saw ANYONE get up and walk out (which usually goes unnoticed in large lectures), he would STOP class, start READING off names from the attendance sheet, and if you didn't answer when called, he'd FAIL you for the semester.

In a 400 seat lecture hall, you can usually whisper something to your friend next to you with no problem. Profs don't really care about that unless you get loud enough to be heard. If anyone's MOUTH even moved like they were talking, he would stand up and YELL at the person to leave the lecture hall and drop the course immediately.

He did this to one kid who was in the BALCONY of the lecture hall, and the prof saw him lean over and whisper to his neighbor (he couldn't have actually HEARD him, there's no way). He SCREAMED at this kid, and was so irate that he knocked the overhead projector off of the desk. He ended up getting alot of bad reviews and retiring since he was tenure and the university couldn't fire him.

Buttonz · #29 11-21-2005, 03:49 PM

Two professors come to mind.

One of them was an Intro to Art class that I had to take. Lecture hall...where she forced us to sit accorind to our last names. If she even thought you were talking, or if someone fell asleep or she noticed that soemoen wasn't taking notes, she would stop the class and yell at the person.

The other one was an Intro to Creative Writing class that I took last fall. The professor was a scatter brain, never knowing what was due when or what days we had off. On top of that, she was a lesbian and hated me because until I figured that out, some of my piecesh ad to do with relatonships. She gave me a D- in class, though my lowest grade was one C, and I tried to get it changed with no luck.

I hate Brooklyn College!

aephi alum · #30 11-21-2005, 08:19 PM

Oh yeah... I forgot about my philosophy professor.

In a philosophy class, you should be free to argue any side of an issue and be graded on the quality of your arguments, regardless of whether the professor agrees with your viewpoint. Right?

Wrong. We had to submit weekly papers, and it wasn't long before I discovered that if you wrote a paper agreeing with the professor's own views, you got a full letter grade higher than if you disagreed. So I started writing papers agreeing with him, even though I fundamentally disagreed with him, just to get through the class.