I don't know if academe attracts more than a fair share of weirdos, nutcases, emotional cripples, and opportunists than any other business or field, but I've sure seen and heard of a lot of interesting behavior during my many years affiliation with various colleges and universities.

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I used to work in a building on the research side of campus that, in addition to housing my group, was also the home of a research group working on communications networks and technology, meaning, the Internet, wireless networks, and telecommunications technology.  Fundamentally, this was a bunc… Read full post »

I've seen this story circulating around the net, particularly in conservative circles, about a college professor who supposedly taught the evils of socialism using averaged grading of his class.  Check out this link here for a variation on the story:  http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/soci… Read full post »