The professor of a class I am currently taking is *consistently* 10-15

minutes late to lecture (the class is a mixture of grad students and

advanced undergrads) and has canceled lecture 3 times (in a class that meets

twice a week for a 10-week quarter).  Then she has the nerve to schedule a

"make-up" lecture during the evening hours, making it difficult for students

who commute or work in the evenings or have other things scheduled to go to

lecture.  She removed readings from the syllabus because "there wasn't

enough time" to cover them in lecture; then she asked us to incorporate them

into the final take-home essay.  For the midterm, she had wanted us to do a

report on an exhibition, but access to the exhibition for that purpose was

denied; she actually wondered at the next class meeting if we (a class of

about 60 or 70 people) could do it anyway and "just keep quiet about it" and

what did we all think of that?  The class was silent, clearly shocked by her

political and ethical cluelessness.  Finally one person raised his hand and

suggested that the class was too large to make such a plan practicable, and

perhaps she could figure out something for us to do that wouldn't compromise

her position.



DUH!!



I'm just SOOOOOO happy that this is my last quarter of coursework.  *sigh*



Patty Lewis

Dept. of English (which is NOT, I feel obliged to note, the department of

the prof I'm talking about)

University of Chicago



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