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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Yet Again, Varieties of Beardedness

Is there a correlation between professorial beardedness and a tendency toward, er, non-standard behavior? UD seems to spend a good deal of time reading about bearded professors running amok...

Michael Sanders,
of the University
of Cincinnati,
won the university's
2002 George B. Barbour
Award "for the promotion
of excellent student-faculty
relations." Which rings a
little ironic now.
















'A University of Cincinnati professor is under investigation for an incident at a Tri-State park.

University police reported that Michael Sanders and some students were detained by Hamilton County park rangers at an unnamed park.

Sources told News 5 that the incident involved filming a nude woman dancing near a fire.

While police would not confirm those details, Sanders is a professor of electronic media at U.C’s Blue Ash campus.

School officials said Sanders has not cooperated with the investigation.

No charges have been filed.'



Not cooperated. That's real bearded of him.



A couple of other details about the guy, from a university profile:


"As a child, I would lead the other kids in the neighborhood on science projects."

As for teaching, Sanders congratulates himself that "I let my bias hang out. I don't hide behind objectivity in the classroom."

Poor cowardly UD. She's always hiding behind objectivity in her classroom.

Plus she's pretty sure she's too scared to film naked people dancing in front of fires in public parks.
Posted at: 10/09/2007 02:41:00 PM