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For students, shopping period (though not christened as such) is a time for self-exploration, stress, and belly butterflies. For professors, it’s a time to show off remarkable wit and sometimes-sexy whimsicality.
Prof. David McKenna in Auteur Studies: Clint Eastwood:
“Don’t e-mail me. I repeat, DON’T E-MAIL ME. I have the Internet to follow San Antonio Spurs games and also I watch pornography.”
Maura Spiegel, Intro to American Studies:
“Keep it real, and stay black, man.”
Prof. Lydia Goehr in Philosophy of History:
“The future of the present is the futurity of the past.”
David Yerkes in Archaeologies of Language:
Introducing the first assignment: “I am a merciful God.”
“I LOVE catching plagiarists. It really gets my adrenaline going.”
Richard Bulliet in Islamo-Christian Civilization:
“When I proposed this course to the committee on instruction, they said, well, you’re just making students read your own books, aren’t you? And I said, well, yeah…”
On the Great Books curriculum: “Cicero is not discussable after a potluck meal.”
And on the power of historians: “Historians rule the world, because they rule the past…The gullibility of the readers of history is almost unlimited.”
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@Jazz Get a Bwog correspondent in Chris Washburne’s class– after the first class, I’m sure the quotes will be plentiful.
@Re: Comment #7 Ah, but that’s what he wants you to think…
@McFister This Yerkes guy sounds awesome.
@Robbins Prof. Robbins had to do it! What did she say first, something like: Common sense has no real meaning… she was out of control. So was the gunner in the front row, and that moron who kept talking about her interest in the public sphere
@Yang I would have raised my hand if I wasn’t afraid of some bitter ridicule.
@Gunner The trick with Prof. Robbins is to make the class laugh with your comment, i.e. be as sarcastic and ironic as he is.
@jacques some professors were no so suave. Bruce robbins after fierce questioning by a lifetime-learner: “Don’t ask me what I’m talking about anymore. I must be talking about something. Just go with it.”
@asdf remember when the blue and white was obsessed with richard bulliet? good times.
@friend don’t think they’ve ended just yet
@Wow... I didn’t remember either of those Yerkes quotes until now, probably due to the fact that I was too busy avoiding his gaze because he’s SO F-ING SCARY and stuff…
– An anonymous poster who considered dropping the Archeologies of Language seminar after the first meeting but is now planning on staying in it because, apparently, she is masochistic.
@More Prof. Vogt: “Topics of Moral Philosophy is more appropriately called Ethics of Special Relationships.”