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[cleolinda]

Oh my Lord:

Student Kacie Spears said professor Louis Houston lost control right after class began Wednesday morning and was yelling obscenities.

"Then he told us if we got out of our seats he's gonna kill us. He went on the black board and wrote "911 now", so we were really in fear for our lives," Spears told KATC-TV.

Spears said Houston slapped a student and then told his class he was God.

I'm sure there's an awful "Kacie Spears"/"Hit me one more time" joke I could make, but I am above that, people.

Meanwhile, back in the world of sane people, my class was pleasant and uneventful, although I have no idea what I'm doing for my term paper, and the two-page prospectus is due Tuesday. Fnarrr.

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[milkradio.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's an awful "Kacie Spears"/"Hit me one more time" joke I could make, but I am above that, people.

Aw... I was looking forward to your snarky comments! They light up my day. Good luck with your term paper :)

[jai-eu-froid.livejournal.com]

I accidentally read that as "my two page term paper is due tuesday!"

and I proceeded to shout

"WHERE THE HELL IS SHE GOING TO COLLEGE?"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. If you find out, tell me, because I wanna go there too.

No, it's a two-page prospectus, a five-page short version and oral presentation/workshop, an annotated bibliography, and then a 15-20 page final paper. So... pretty much the reverse of a two-page paper.

[jai-eu-froid.livejournal.com]

ah yes I see

[katla-asriel.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that decency runs some people's minds. :) Oh, well. I can say the "Kacie Spears" joke. I have NO decency - or some, just not a lot.

Good luck with the paper! I myself have one that's hard, so I understand what you mean.

-Katla

[gypsytemptress.livejournal.com]

that's very scary.

[sturmclan.livejournal.com]

Y'know it *is* University of Louisiana - Kacie could be related. Then you could make your "one more time" reference & not be too far off the mark.
'Course I can't speak about the awfulness of said remark in that case. :grin:

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Delurking to say I love your Lost recaps, and say that so far it's shaping to be a great show. I've written a couple of recaps at www.teaattheford.net. (now that I know you're doing this, I'm going to hold off reading your prompt crit until I write my pitiful fanny thangs, because I might be spoiled, but I'll be counting the minutes).

I also said something about 911-obsessed cowards, but it was so wanky I thought better of it and bahleeted. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Now you know why I'm totally off other people's movie parody work until I finish the book.

Where are your recaps? I poked around the site but didn't see them (am probably blind).

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Hang about -- I don't know if Lost crit has been put on the public side. There's some good stuff. I've read your stuff, luckily after seeing the shows and posting; and we have some academics who are pondering it with pleasure.

I'm liking Lost tons. (squee!) But we of the Lost Liking are a small wee faction. We've only smuggled Lost onto www.teaattheford.net because it's a David Fury project. We're pimping like whores, actually.

Okay, bye! Back when I find out if the merry Lost crit is up; or, failing that, to ask the site owner to make it so.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot: I'm Cyn on that site, and I'm the token comic book person. In a sea of PHDs.

[sprunkle.livejournal.com]

Heh. Just when you begin to think your classes suck, you read about some nutjob who should be on better meds.

[maramala.livejournal.com]

This is not news. It's too one-sided and biased. The report could have told us why the teacher did what he did.

Of course, since there's been a shift in the teaching paradigm (http://www.sntp.net/education/illiteracy.htm), I could be mistaken.

I weep for our future.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't really see how the quality of the report changes the newsworthiness of the event per se. If it's one-sided, it's because they're still trying to investigate and get the professor to tell his side of the story; he doesn't sound too lucid at the moment.

[maramala.livejournal.com]

True, that. I still believe they should've taken a little more time to check up on their facts first before getting the story printed.

Having been an active campus journalist, I've experienced the pressures of finding scoops, yet I do not believe in being first if it means cutting corners. Media is a powerful tool of manipulation, and fragmentory reportage is tantamount of irresponsible abuse of that power.

. . .Sorry, my leftist views are resurfacing again.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd originally read that as "911 now" and not, as I found elsewhere (http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/0FB23988-D88B-4BF9-87D6-0519861B7471.shtml), "9/11 now." I figured he was just urging his cellphone-toting students to call for help....

Though I can't help feel a little cheated that it's instructors like this who throw the curve and make it harder to complain about our own instructors....

[maramala.livejournal.com]

Now this is a proper news report.

Everything's clearer now.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, it *would* be a physics professor. Another colleague down the tubes! I wonder if it's the stress of modern physics, as the double-slit experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment) will *definitely* make your brain fizz if you think about it too much. :p

Dr. Yarha, Much Learning Hath Made Thee Mad

[scarolinagrl.livejournal.com]

This is OT to your post, but I know you're a huge fan of the dolls and wondered if you've seen these...

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http://www.barbiecollector.com/shop/product.aspx?product_id=61170

Hope the links work!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah--I stumbled across pictures of them on theonering.net a couple of weeks ago. I want the Galadriel doll SO BAD.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Well, physics professors have always been a little screwy in my experience.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Well, the students used to be the scary ones. Looks like the teachers are striking back...

[apoplexia.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'm sure he had his reasons. Students are animals.

[takekammuri.livejournal.com]

They brought in a bomb squad?

...This is just messed up.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Well, he *is* a physics professor. Might have a few kilotons in his back pocket. You never know about us uncivil engineering types. ;)

Yarha, A Kiloton of Prevention is Worth a Megaton of Cure

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

back in the world of sane people, my class was pleasant and uneventful,

I read that at first as "peasant and uneventful" and wondered what the heck kinda class you were taking.

I didn't get much sleep last night.

[theredpanther.livejournal.com]

"A University of Louisiana at Lafayette physics professor was banned from the campus Wednesday and taken to the coroner's office for evaluation after threatening his class"

Now, see, if I was having some sort of psychotic episode to the point I was terrorizing my class, I wouldn't think the coroner's office would be the most relaxing or productive place to go. What kind of evaluation was he getting?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too. The whole thing is odd.