I have one right now that admitted to being in the Sierra Club and getting all his news from NPR, actually. Quite funny!

Post examples of crazy liberal professors who ruin classes with their ramblings here, so we know who to stay away from.

8/31/2006 6:05:29 PM

because npr is bad

or being liberal is bad


heaven forbid they don't agree with your political beliefs.

8/31/2006 6:07:21 PM

when they use it to drive the class, as often happens, it is a problem

8/31/2006 6:12:55 PM

grow some balls.

8/31/2006 6:15:02 PM

Welcome to college ... learn to embrace a different viewpoint / perspective of teaching. If you don't like it, drop the course and take it with another instructor/substitute another course. If you have to take it, and that is the only instructor who teaches it, why not talk with them during office hours like a civilized person?

8/31/2006 6:17:59 PM

Randy has a point. Teaching as a professor shouldn't include preaching. It's about stuffing facts down the throats of stupid children.

8/31/2006 6:24:39 PM

hah

i really hope darkone is using sarcasm. If he is, this is some funny shit.


Question, what kind of class is it. In many there is no way around leaving your beliefs out.

8/31/2006 6:28:53 PM

I would have rather had a professor who said things I didn't agree with once in a while. It would make classes more interesting. I mean, lecturing for an hour straight gets tiresome to listen to.

I can see that if they were making points you were very, very against that it would be distracting. In that case I would talk to them face to face.

8/31/2006 6:30:29 PM

how to be a liberal 101

8/31/2006 6:30:45 PM

I have an overly conservative one. Guy, last name pavlick or something. I can not tolerate this guy.

8/31/2006 7:02:50 PM

Pavlik is awesome, he went to Harvard

as far as ultra liberal, Steve Green

he is good about it though

[Edited on August 31, 2006 at 7:39 PM. Reason : ]

8/31/2006 7:38:32 PM

one time I had this douchebag hippie professor for Thermo, he totally wouldn't give you an A unless you expressed liberal leanings in your work. I always hand to think, would Kerry agree with the way I drew this steam cycle?

damn those shoeless liberals

8/31/2006 9:23:54 PM

I thought liberals were supposed to be the whiny little bitches.

8/31/2006 9:26:51 PM

ugh yeah...green for poly sci. it was the semester the elections were going on too and some guy made the comment "you're voting for bush this year aren't you?"...and he totally didn't catch on to the sarcasm. anyway, i dropped that class after the first week...mostly because i hate the subject.

9/1/2006 12:23:42 AM

If you let a college professor change your political beliefs because of comments they make or views they ask you to consider, then you are a tool. We're in college, we need to see different ideas, we need to learn, and then we move on. Who really cares? My professor's political beliefs will not keep me up at night, and I definitely won't care after I get my grade for the class and move the hell on the the next class. If you are lucky enough to have a great professor that you can get along with, consider it a bonus. In the real world you will have to work with people who don't even believe in your political or religious systems at all. Are you going to go crying to TWW then? Suck it up for the semester and move on.

9/1/2006 12:40:30 AM

hes clearly a troll. we didnt need a real response.

9/1/2006 12:45:12 AM

sometimes i enjoy a slightly liberal professor just because it reminds me why im conservative.

but i had one professor, vincent for history, who just wouldn't shut up about bush and how much he thought he was fucking up. I understand the politics played a crucial role in previous wars and the development of european history, but just shut the fuck up about it already. i never wanted to confront him about it because i seriously thought it would hurt my grade, so i just took it.

9/1/2006 1:02:17 AM

That Michael Savage guy on NPR cracks me up! He leaves every last caller speechless then makes fun of them for not knowing all the facts and wonders why they even bother to try to argue with him.

9/1/2006 1:02:24 AM

NPR. jesus christ... talk about giving in to the terrorists.

i disenrolled from nc state and started taking classes at McUniversity instead.

9/1/2006 5:40:31 AM

^^you know he also advocates internment camps for all muslims.

and he never even lets people argue. just lets them say a little and as soon as they start to possibly disagree, he screams at them for 5 min. and then hangs up.

What about that guy at UNCW? The really conservative one.

9/1/2006 1:06:58 PM

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"I have one right now that admitted to being in the Sierra Club and getting all his news from NPR, actually. Quite funny! Post examples of crazy liberal professors who ruin classes with their ramblings here, so we know who to stay away from. "

which professor was it? so we know to stay away from him.

9/1/2006 1:08:45 PM

i know every time i have an experience with someone who believes anything other than me it makes me question my beliefs.... i had to drop out of ncsu because all of my professors were not like me and i didn't know who i was anymore.... it drove me crazy because i've never met anyone who didn't agree with me on everything and i don'tk now how to wrap my head around anything i've never thought about before....

9/2/2006 8:45:48 PM

I think that political views should be left outside of the classroom unless it's a poly-sci or other related class. And, if it does happen to be one of those, any political views mentioned should be followed-up with what the opposing views may be (to give any fresh minds both sides of the coin to consider).

9/3/2006 11:36:32 AM

^^ The problem comes when you have to write a paper or something and you feel that you must agree with the professors viewpoint in order to get a good grade. You should be able to make an argument that goes against the beliefs of the teacher and still get an A.

9/3/2006 12:13:24 PM

i'm not sure i've ever heard of that happening while i've been at nc state. please, tell me about your experience.

9/3/2006 1:09:13 PM

9/3/2006 1:09:44 PM

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"You should be able to make an argument that goes against the beliefs of the teacher and still get an A."

ahahahaha good fuckin luck. many of the profs i've had for Humanities and Social Science electives wanted what they spewed forth in class recited right back to them in a paper, even if u didnt agree with their bird-brain theories and opinions. for 1 class, i refused to do that and received bad grades on all papers handed into him. lookin back at that liberal bullshit mindset, i'm so glad i'm in engineering.

9/3/2006 1:14:35 PM

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"I have one right now that admitted to being in the Sierra Club and getting all his news from NPR, actually. Quite funny! Post examples of crazy liberal professors who ruin classes with their ramblings here, so we know who to stay away from."

you left out the part where he was forcing his views on you, or even inserting them in the classroom other than telling you about himself. gg

9/3/2006 1:55:04 PM

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"i'm not sure i've ever heard of that happening while i've been at nc state. please, tell me about your experience."

I have not had this happen at NC State. Of course every course I have taken here has been engineering except for two music theory classes. When I was going to community college I took a literature class where almost every reading that was assigned had a woman as the main character where all of the men in her life were assholes and were the source of all their problems. It was very clear that she was a feminist just based on the curriculum. Now I don't care that she is a feminist, but in my opinion when a professor makes their personal beliefs known in a classroom setting, it encourages those that do not agree with him/her to not reply honestly about their own beliefs. Why have my paper scrutinized more closely for disagreeing with him/her when I can just tell them what they want to hear, get a good grade and move on?

I guess my point is that I think professors, regardless of their personal beliefs, should challenge everyone to evaluate why they believe what they do, not just the people who disagree with them.

9/3/2006 2:39:39 PM

even though most liberal/conservative/crazy professors i've had were open to everything and anything being dicussed in their classroom..... you could take any point of view in a paper as long as you were able to complete the assignment correctly..... you people must be getting the worst of the worst

[Edited on September 3, 2006 at 3:00 PM. Reason : ]

9/3/2006 3:00:30 PM

Yeah... I've had a few professors with fairly obvious strong political views (mostly liberal, but one or two were unabashed conservative extremists.) None of them graded people down for disagreeing with them, they just expected support behind any argument. Sure you might have to back up something a little more solidly if it's clearly contrary to what the professor beleives, but you should get used to that. If you present an argument to someone and know they disagree with it, you should fairly well expect to have to defend it. That's probably the most important lesson you can get out of a humanities class.

9/3/2006 3:56:21 PM

Ever wonder why the most educated people in our society lean left?

9/3/2006 4:40:17 PM

you might as well learn the best arguments for and against anything you believe in anyway if you're going to continue trying to defend those beliefs for the rest of your life

9/3/2006 4:43:00 PM

A good exercise is to take what you believe, and then argue for the other side. You will learn alot more about yourself and society in general.

9/3/2006 4:45:46 PM

i have actually done that several times for papers/exams because i find that the arguments for several of my beliefs are weak

9/3/2006 6:27:24 PM

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"being in the Sierra Club"

my dad has been in the sierra club forever

he has also consistently voted republican forever, at least for the big stuff

9/3/2006 11:14:04 PM

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"Ever wonder why the most educated people in our society lean left?"

are you joking? do you consider liberal professors the most educated people?

9/5/2006 12:51:20 AM

its a stone cold fact. as level of education goes up, you get more liberal views.

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 1:07 AM. Reason : there are probably thousands of stats for this]

9/5/2006 1:07:13 AM

I think that anyone who spends their entire life studying society and causation of societal problems at an extremely advanced level is going to be able to understand it much better then some ignorant hick who cannot even recognize their own biases and flaws in their arguments. Do you honestly think that you have somehow beat the entire academic system and are somehow more intelligent than the most educated people in our society?

Its disturbing when I read your posts and you have absolutely no idea what the consequences are of the positions you are advocating. As a former Army infantryman and a PhD student, I understand the differences in both trains of thought. And what is the problem with the Sierra Club? Do you think that trying to save the environment from irreversible destruction is some sort of radical concept? I think that destroying the environment for short term economic gain is much more radical. Has greed destroyed your humanity?

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 1:14 AM. Reason : .]

9/5/2006 1:13:01 AM

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"its a stone cold fact. as level of education goes up, you get more liberal views."

and less sex

9/5/2006 4:29:23 PM

so the more stupid you are, the more sex you get?

9/5/2006 4:31:29 PM

who wants to dick a hippy?

9/5/2006 4:34:11 PM

so hippies are smart?

9/5/2006 4:37:54 PM

You know, I have never had a professor that wanted to shove their veiws down my thoat at State. I know all of the humanities teachers I have had did have liberal leanings though. Probably has somthing to do with the fact that liberals are generally more inclined to become teachers. Very interesting stuff; not going to discuss it on here though .

9/5/2006 11:02:50 PM

liberal = more sex!

9/5/2006 11:03:38 PM

i hated being in poly sci for that reason

some professors used the classroom as their soapbox on occassion, which is bullshit

9/5/2006 11:13:59 PM

i like being in poli sci cuz you can sleep in class & still get an A

9/5/2006 11:15:07 PM

because its a joke class that has no applications to the real world?

our tax dollars at work!

9/6/2006 9:17:30 PM

You obviously have never taken a Political Science class.

9/6/2006 9:25:12 PM

i'm sure i'll make a perfectly fine civics teacher


[Edited on September 6, 2006 at 9:40 PM. Reason : or monica lewinsky]

9/6/2006 9:40:14 PM