This prof at Yale has my admiration:
Yale Professor Moves Class to Room Without Wi-Fi. Cue Outrage.
A Yale lecture capped at 270 students? And no wireless Internet available? Dial up the anger on the New Haven, Conn., campus.
After Alexander Nemerov moved his popular “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present” from the Yale Law School auditorium that easily fit about 450 students to the more cramped Yale Art Gallery auditorium, he not only upset some students and alumni by capping the class size at 270 because of the smaller venue, but also shocked some students that walked into a room void of wi-fi or cell service.
Read on for the flava.I'm wondering how he got this through the administration (capping a class that had enrolled at double?).
I want to know how to get a classroom with no wifi access. I would LOVE a classroom with no wifi access.
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DeleteIn Nemerov's case, perhaps it was a panacea offered by admin for having the craziest TA EVER: http://www.ivygateblog.com/2012/01/exclusive-here-are-the-insane-emails-between-a-rogue-yale-t-a-and-the-professor-who-fired-her/
ReplyDeleteI thought I recognized the name!
DeleteHoly batshit crazy, Batman! No hiring committee in the world is going to take that woman on. Well, maybe some Catholic U might. Whether she was justified or not, she just made a permanent record of her inability to "work and play well with others." Yeesh.
DeleteIt's funny, but just as I was reading this, the music program on my computer that had been set to "shuffle" started playing John Lee Hooker's song, "Serves you right to suffer."
ReplyDeleteI don't know for sure, but a cell phone jammer might work for wifi. They're easy to find on the internet and cheap (less than $20). Illegal, but nobody's ever been prosecuted for using one.
ReplyDeleteI bought one a few years ago, tried it out, and found it worked just fine: No cell phone reception within 10 - 15 meters. After the novelty wore off, I gave it to a friend. We both found it makes shopping at the grocery store a lot more interesting/entertaining.
Never used it in school because I'm firm enough and clear enough about the rules so cell phones going off in class isn't much of a problem. I don't permit the use of laptops either. That probably helps with the cell phone issue.
Am I the only one to notice the contrast between the students' desperation to get into this class, only to 'multitask' their email and facebook once they get in? Perhaps I'm being unfair, but it suggests an "easy A" to me.
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