Nobel Laureate Professor: I'm Banning Guns in My UT Classroom

[WildBill]

A long time ago, I had a physical chemistry professor that was 86 years old, a leading authority in physical chemistry, and kooky as heck. He was VERY opinionated and tossed out judgments that were offensive and often unfounded. All of us taking the course were in the same majors and we knew each other well.

After a week or so, it became clear that this professor lit up like a light every time a cute Co-Ed walked into class. A quick student meeting one day solved the problem of his outbursts. The front row seats were reserved for ladies wearing shorts or skirts and they would demurely smile whenever he got excited about politics or his feelings.

It was my first lesson in a field recently named, "social engineering."
Carry on!
Nick

Where did you go to school? I think I was in the same class. He kind of looked like this.

[o b juan]

the professor sounds like some of the dope smoking hippy war protesters we tagged where ever they went in Lafayette USL in 67-72
one of them even had the last name of a wwII general and was his grandson ,, ond the one we really tagged was a guy named PANETTA.

those two had the other dopes do the real job, untouchables

[JustSomeOldGuy]

Why would he need to get a job elsewhere?

Because his wife doesn't want him underfoot all day......anymore than we do.

[mojo84]

Why would he need to get a job elsewhere?

Because his wife doesn't want him underfoot all day......anymore than we do.

It's not like UT can fire him.

[JustSomeOldGuy]

They don't have to fire him. They can simply not assign him any classes. He gets to sit on his butt in his office all day doing research or writing his next book or just staring at the wall all day. Happened to a professor I studied under back in the '70s when she irritated the Department Chairman.

[Diesel42]

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

Where did you go to school? I think I was in the same class. He kind of looked like this.

[Pawpaw]

A long time ago, I had a physical chemistry professor that was 86 years old, a leading authority in physical chemistry, and kooky as heck. He was VERY opinionated and tossed out judgments that were offensive and often unfounded. All of us taking the course were in the same majors and we knew each other well.

After a week or so, it became clear that this professor lit up like a light every time a cute Co-Ed walked into class. A quick student meeting one day solved the problem of his outbursts. The front row seats were reserved for ladies wearing shorts or skirts and they would demurely smile whenever he got excited about politics or his feelings.

It was my first lesson in a field recently named, "social engineering."
Carry on!
Nick

Reminds me of a scene from an Indiana Jones movie.

[WildBill]

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

Where did you go to school? I think I was in the same class. He kind of looked like this.

Nah different school and different guy. Mine wasn't a competent scientist or a good instructor.
He wasn't a good guy either. He did look like the picture.

[dhoobler]

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

We might have crossed paths. I finished a chemical engineering degree at A&M in December, 1979. I can't recall the name of my pchem prof, but I do remember his lectures. They sounded like someone hit the play button on a tape recorder.

[dru]

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

We might have crossed paths. I finished a chemical engineering degree at A&M in December, 1979. I can't recall the name of my pchem prof, but I do remember his lectures. They sounded like someone hit the play button on a tape recorder.

To be fair, many p-chem professors kind of sound like this. I remember having p-chem and it was one of the less stimulating lectures I've ever sat through....which was a shame because the material that p-chem covers is both interesting and difficult. Having a professor who could teach it and who was personable could make it less tedious

[WildBill]

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

We might have crossed paths. I finished a chemical engineering degree at A&M in December, 1979. I can't recall the name of my pchem prof, but I do remember his lectures. They sounded like someone hit the play button on a tape recorder.

To be fair, many p-chem professors kind of sound like this. I remember having p-chem and it was one of the less stimulating lectures I've ever sat through....which was a shame because the material that p-chem covers is both interesting and difficult. Having a professor who could teach it and who was personable could make it less tedious

I forgot, but the weird professor with the women in the front row was advanced inorganic, not p-chem.
I had a German woman as a p-chem professor.
She had a great personality and was a good teacher. She had one habit that always made us laugh.
Sometimes when she was deep in thought doing calculations she would mumble to herself in German.
When she caught herself doing it she would shrug her shoulders and smile.

[JALLEN]

You Aggies sure have some stories!

When I was in college, the Aggies were all Animal Husbandry majors, but somebody caught 'em and made 'em quit it!

\m/

[HankB]

This professor sounds like one of my old high school teachers - so impressed with his own record in academia, he's begun thinking he's above the actual LAW of the land.

In high school, it came at a time when student smoking was the BIG issue for administrators. Some didn't like it when the students - with a little research - discovered that city laws prohibited ALL smoking in public buildings; a prohibition that would actually cover the teacher's lounges. One teacher - a smoker - was extremely irate that the student council had the unmitigated gall - the sheer audacity - to rat them out, as he thought that his vast and lofty academic standing ought to EXEMPT him from the law.

He found out otherwise.

So this professor is exercising his 1st Amendment right to issue pronouncements that cannot be enforced - they're just as meaningless as if I sent a letter to the editor notifying everyone that I've taken it upon myself to set a new speed limit on the nearest interstate highway. I'd be ignored - and so should he.

[Diesel42]

Howdy dhoobler!
Sent you a PM. LOL, where it says bull... should say bull.
Happy Trails!
Nick

This happened at Texas A&M back in 1979.
He really was a competent scientist and good instructor. He just suffered from emotional distractions.
LOL
Nick

We might have crossed paths. I finished a chemical engineering degree at A&M in December, 1979. I can't recall the name of my pchem prof, but I do remember his lectures. They sounded like someone hit the play button on a tape recorder.

[thetexan]

I'm sure he has tenure. AND he is a Nobel laureate which is a ginormous feather in UTs hat and a even bigger marketing tool.

And he controls the grades. So some student will probably have to put his entire student career at risk to test this.

There should be an offense for deliberately violating rules!

Wait! WHAT! There is an offense! Who'd thought.

tex