SEE IT: Columbia professor strips down to underwear...[to teach] quantum mechanics

NY Daily News ^ | February 18, 2013 | Tina Moore

[Slings and Arrows]

This Columbia University professor’s approach to teaching quantum mechanics is a real eye-opener.

Prof. Emlyn Hughes gave students a bizarre performance Monday, stripping down to his underwear as images of 9/11 and the Holocaust showed on a screen behind him.

Hughes remained in the fetal position on the floor as two people dressed as ninjas blindfolded two stuffed animals and impaled one of them with a sword. The whole five-minute skit was posted on the website Bwog.

The students at first encouraged Hughes to dance to the music that was playing as he stripped, but then were dismayed when footage of the Twin Towers collapsing and wartime Nazi Germany began rolling, the video shows.

[jmcenanly]

Did he do this with a grant from the National Science Foundation or the National Endowment for the Arts? It seems that our government is endorsing behavior that, in less enlightened times, would have had the performer under close psychiatric evaluation. This is a disturbing trend throughout academia.

[FamiliarFace]

I think I had the same professor!

[martin_fierro]

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So you watch it at someone else’s house? ;)

[Rocky]

He was probably talking about quantum coupling.

[wildbill]

Back in the day (1957-61)one of the funniest and iconoclastic professors was C. Wright Mills, a very well-known sociologist who had written some Books that crossed over into popular culture. I was in his CC class as a freshman.

I wasn’t there so I can’t vouch for it, but Prof. Mills delighted in telling this on himself so it may be true. He had told his students that he would never give them a pop test unless they saw him coming into the classroom via the transom.

According to the story, one day the class was delayed because Mills hadn’t appeared. Then the class could dimly see through the door (partly frosted glass if you remember Hamilton Hall) what they took to be a janitor with a ladder.

Instead it was Mills in his trademark corduroy pants and lumberjack shirt, climbing in over the transom above the door. When he reached the floor, he calmly brushed himself off and said, “Gentlemen, I keep my promises. We are now going to have a pop test.”