It’s only January and we may already have the funniest College Insurrection story of the year.
From the Washington Post:
A professor welcomed students to class by calling them ‘vectors of disease to me.’ He has been suspended.Some college students in Michigan might have expected their professor to cover the usual topics in a video kicking off the semester this week — attendance, grading, plagiarism. But Barry Mehler gave them a lot more than the basics.Mehler, a history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., told his students he didn’t want to know anything about them, not even their names, because “you people are just vectors of disease to me.”The 74-year-old said it didn’t matter how hard they worked in his class since he randomly predetermined their grades.And if they didn’t like any of that?“Go complain to your dean … go ahead,” Mehler said. “I’m retiring at the end of this year and I [don’t care] any longer.”As of early Friday, the 14-minute profanity-laced video has been viewed more than 210,000 times since Mehler posted it on Sunday. Mehler has been placed on administrative leave while Ferris State University investigates the incident. In a statement to The Washington Post, university president David Eisler said he “was shocked and appalled” by the video.
This is cued to start at the 4:37 mark but you may want to watch the whole thing. Strong language warning:
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