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	snarkhunter 2008-05-01 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	My only problem with this whole thing is the utter FAIL so many of the students have when it comes to grasping how academia works. But I'm too tired of it myself to deal with it. Bah. also, way to bring the crazy, lady! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	snarkhunter 2008-05-01 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	And by "deal with it," I mean "share my thoughts on yaoi in this forum" and not "go forth and wank and get myself banned." Just, you know, FYI. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jat_sapphire 2008-05-02 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Can NONE of these people write a halfway complicated sentence in a halfway grammatical manner? I despair. (Reply to this)

	tintagel 2008-05-02 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Oh man. Why does going to Uni scare me so much more than it did before? (Reply to this)

	zinkchan 2008-05-03 12:21 am UTC (link)
	I'm reminded of the physics professor a friend of mine had who refused to even let him see his evaluation until she'd seen his faculty evaluation of her. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	issendai 2008-05-03 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	Isn't that kind of... you know... unethical? Or am I coming from crazy-talk country? I hope your friend took the issue to the department head and the school ethics board. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zinkchan
2008-05-04 04:42 am UTC (link)

Oh, it's unethical but there are professors who do that a lot. The school is, once again, tightening up their regulations when it comes to that (such as having the students turn in faculty evals to the program secretary, who then gives it to the Administration before telling the faculty that the student has turned in an eval) but considering the atmosphere at the school I go to, it can be difficult to even say something like "I thought that Professor X's lecture was a bit off today" without said professor hearing about and either getting pissy or taking it into consideration the next time they lecture on the subject.

My own professor for the last two quarters docked a classmate 6 credits, instead of the original 3 she had said she would miss due to absences, because that classmate was well known for bringing up legitimate issues. I think I was the only one who left the program at the start of Spring Quarter who got full credit and that was because she really, really liked me. I suspect I'll be hearing more about credit redactions once friends of mine come back from Japan at the end of the month.

As for the friend, he did complain to the dean and the professor was told to change her policy. There have also been complaints about professors failing entire programs which have caused the administration to look at things a little a differently. Although the after math of a "riot" we had on Feb. 14 has taken up most of their time.

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major_fischer
2008-05-04 09:39 pm UTC (link)

My school requires that evaluations be completed in a class period with the instructor (or TA) out of the room and one of the students takes all of them in an envelope to the department secretary where the numerical grades are aggrigated into one report and all the comments are typed up... and even then they aren't given to the instructor until the following semester.

That being said some do their own informal evaluations and this past semester i had a TA come up to me to ask about one of my anonymous comments... because he recognized my hand writing.

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	frequentmouse 2008-05-05 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Huh. I turned in one faculty eval (on a Planning Faculty member who is just recently deceased; he went Emeritus, so, alas, it did not kill his career) which read, in total: I do not like thee, Doctor Fell The reson why I cannot tell But this I know, and know full well I do not like thee, Doctor Fell. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	frequentmouse 2008-05-05 03:52 am UTC (link)
	Also, in re the riot: I suspect that the usual dipshits in the Zero letters column are finding themselves sorely dissappointed that the people arrested are not long-haired multipierced hippy freaks, but apparently mostly members of athletic teams. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zinkchan
2008-05-06 10:54 pm UTC (link)

If it weren't so unfunny, I'd put up all the links related to it because it's getting ridiculous. A friend of mine was arressted for it and I know way too many people who have been harrassing the police on campus. I've kind stopped talking about it on campus because invariably it decends into irl wank.

The funny thing was that I was going to go to the concert but went out to dinner instead. And the first thing I said when I heard about it was something to the effect that most Greeners I know probably would have watched because they were too stoned to actually participate.

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	redwarrior 2008-05-06 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	I'd like to ask her something: Do we all look like ants when you stand on top of that ivory tower of yours? Thank GOD I do not go to Dartmouth. And I really REALLY hope that, when I become a prof, I'm not going to be an oversensitive git like her. (Reply to this)

	metallicar67 2008-05-09 05:00 am UTC (link)
	I feel like this would be fun to read while high. It is some quality batshit either way. I think this is my favorite part: of violating Title VII of anti-federal discrimination laws. For when you fail to discriminate against the federal, I guess. (Reply to this)

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