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Saturday, November 12, 2005

HARRUMPH IV

[For Harrumph I, II, and III, go here ]:

A sample of University of Georgia faculty reaction to the provost’s -- and the state’s taxpayers’ -- concern about professors there canceling more and more classes because of football games:


“I’ve been teaching for 30 years. I’m a grown up. If I am hired to teach libel law then no one is going to tell me how to teach my class.”

“I think we have bigger issues on campus.”

“The assumption underlying this is ‘we don’t trust faculty.’”

“I think our provost has way better things to do with his time. I think our department heads and deans have way better things to do with their time than to check and see if teachers cancelled classes one particular day.”

“If I were teaching a reporting class, I would [have cancelled] class that day and [had] students report on teachers canceling classes.”