Full Disclosure: Larry Summers's fault.
Posted on 02/13/2010 9:39:24 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Amy Bishop, the professor that killed three of University of Alabama-Huntsville biology faculty members and wounded three others after being denied tenure, had very mixed reviews on her teaching abilities, according to the Web site ratemyprofessor.com.
While no students doubted her knowledge of the subject matter, a significant number of them accused Bishop of being an incompetent educator, unable to relate the subject matter to her students in a way that they could understand.
In addition, several made references to political comments Bishop made, including one who said "she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class." Another student wrote that Bishop, " She's a liberal from 'Hahvahd' and let's you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects."
The later user's comment had mysteriously been removed from Bishop's profile on www.ratemyprofessors.com/ by Saturday morning, the day after the shooting, after being referenced on multiple web sites and blogs.
The reason many leftist professors are hard graders is that they think it means they have high standards. It has nothing to do with anything other than attention to their appearance.
Some comic or other has pointed out that after every mass shooting, the comments of the friends and neighbors about the culprit can be summarized by one of the following two sentences:
"He was always such a quiet, respectful kid."
or
"I always thought there was something a little funny about him."
BTW, have the gun nuts chimed in on the need for mandatory background checks for Harvard grads yet?
Have the feminists chimed in that she is a victim of the patriarchy?
And has anyone asked William "bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at" Ayers for comment yet?
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SmokingJoe's comment provides a wealth of insight into the subtleties of natural selection -- i.e. fitness in one area does not necessarily lead to increased survival, either for the individual OR a population.
In fact, you may have just inspired a vanity, given that natural selection is a statistical process -- small population groups may just get "unlucky" and die out, just as someone may have a superior hand in poker, until their opponent, against all odds, draws to an inside straight.
(Visions of autocorrelation and random walk dancing in my head.)
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Can you translate it please?
اود ان يموت بدلا من العيش في ظل الحر الاسلام.
Several online translators gave inconsistent results.
Thanks! g_w
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Let's send her to Iran.
Problem solved...either way!
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You make good observations about student ratings. The huge enrollments are in required courses for freshman and sophomore undergraduates. Tenured professors and professors in general tend not to like teaching those courses because they require a lot of organization and work relative to that required for a tiny upper level course. The student ratings of large, lower level “mass lecture” courses tend to average lower than those of the upper level small courses.
Full Disclosure: Larry Summers's fault.
Did you read today’s news? She shot her 18 year old brother to death in 1986 — her current age is in question, but she would have been about 19-20 (not a “juvenile”). Never got charged, and the police who responded and investigated weren’t happy about that — they knew it was no “accident”.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585781,00.html
And I just love this helpful detail from the article: “A 9-millimeter handgun was found in the bathroom of the building where the shootings occurred, and Huntsville police spokesman Sgt. Mark Roberts said Bishop did not have a permit for it.”
Isn’t it great that Alabama has a gun permit scheme? Works so well. < /s>
Locking up murderers, permanently, would be a heck of a lot more effective.
But then again, maybe the fact they denied her, a HARVARD PhD, tenure, vindicates his thinking...
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I'm not sure that's really true. At the very least it varies from school to school and department to department. The intro Biology course I took always has an enrollment of about 700 and the prof is *very* popular. Rating a little over 4 last time I looked, and lots of rave reviews on various internet forums, as well as RateMyProfessors. On the other hand, the Chemistry department at the same school has ratings in the cellar for virtually the entire department (chair had a 1-point-something rating last time I looked). Some departments (and probably some schools overall) have a habit of dumping lousy tenured professors they'd really prefer to get rid of into the intro courses that nobody wants to teach, and *that's* what generates the low ratings. I took a pre-Gen Chem course with a prof like this -- really a piece of work, obviously near retirement age, Ivy League PhD over 30 years earlier, pissed that he had to keep teaching this course (mainly for pre-nursing students, and non-science majors looking for an easy way to fulfill their science requirement), and was rude and patronizing to everyone. On the other hand, at this same school, the Psych department largely staffs its huge intro level courses with really *excellent* adjuncts, many of whom only teach there for a semester or two (I took Intro Psych with a guy who was doing the clinical year for his doctorate in clinical psych and moonlighting teaching this course -- he was really, really good, both in teaching/lecturing and in administrative management of the course).
I'm not a native speaker, so I'm taking it on "faith" in my translator.
I'm not a native speaker, so I'm taking it on "faith" in my translator.
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