When I Went Into Class Today...

[DanaC]

Should come to some of my eighteenth-century history lectures...one of our lecturers specialises in vice and consumption.

[Clodfobble]

I once took a class called "Lies and Deception." It was truly fascinating.

[Undertoad]

...or so you say.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I once took a class called "Lies and Deception." It was truly fascinating.

aka, Political Science 101

[Bullitt]

aka every proper history course.

[wolf]

I had to take Human Sexuality as part of my graduate degree.

It used to be a great class. Fun, lots of dirty movies, uh, I mean important documentaries about human behavior.

Then the prof got brought up on sexual harassment charges.

He won the case, but from that day on prof just had various students write up and read answers to questions in the overpriced study guide.

Went from the most legendary class in the school to the most boring.

[Pie]

...damn whiners gotta spoil it for the rest of us...

[SteveDallas]

wolf, were the harassment charges based on the nature of the material used in class? Or was he supposed to have been involved in "extracurricular" activities?

[wolf]

The stories varied. As I recall there was an accusation from a student that he made a naughty suggestion while they were at dinner together. The charges were ruled unfounded.

But they watched him like a hawk afterward. He wasn't particularly popular, was known to be a very hard grader, and many of the students didn't like him very much, particularly the ones who coasted through any classes other than his. Or were in the Women's Studies Program. He was an opener of doors for ladies, and insisted on calling his students Mr., Miss, Mrs. or Ms. as was their preference, and likewise insisted that he be called "Dr." He did not wear blue jeans and did not make his classes sit in circles or sing Kum-Bah-Yah, as was the practice of most of the rest of his department.

I have good rapport with irascible, older men, never had any trouble with him. He appreciated anyone with a sharp wit that would stand up to him, and so we got along quite well.

[barefoot serpent]

A similar thing happened a few years ago here at KU. It was often listed as the favorite undergrad course.

Topeka — A conservative state senator from Wichita, looking to raise campaign funds in a tough Republican Party primary, is boasting about her fight with Kansas University over a human sexuality class.

In a campaign letter, Susan Wagle says she conducted an investigation showing "a Kansas university was spending tens of thousands of tax dollars -- your hard-earned money -- to purchase explicit films of sexual acts for viewing in undergraduate classes. These same materials are considered so obscene and vulgar that they are illegal for private individuals to possess in their own home."

Wagle, who gained national attention during the 2003 legislative session by criticizing popular KU social welfare professor Dennis Dailey on the floor of the state Senate, is being challenged by former Wichita mayor and gubernatorial candidate Bob Knight.

A university review of Wagle's allegations concluded they were baseless.

"I'm running on my record, and that was a high-profile issue," Wagle said when asked Friday about the fund-raising letter. She said the university her letter referred to was KU.

The whole art. here

It was even on O'Reilly with Wagle foaming at the mouth and the 'headline' Prof or Perv?