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[Sean of the Thread]

University of Florida's Stoned Professor: Fight The Power
by Streeter Seidell 19 hours ago

If anyone hasn't seen this video yet, I suggest you watch it. The apparently stoned - or drunk? - professor is named John - or Howard - Hall and he was "relieved of his teaching duties" after this video showed up on UF's website. We here at CollegeHumor think this is an outrage!

I say to you, who among of us hasn't gone to class drunk or high? Why should this man, this happy, rambling man, be punished for something we have all done? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone! We Demand Justice!

How many of you have sat through a lecture delivered by an uninspired, lazy TA who can barely find the energy to read aloud from the textbook? How many of you have teetered on the brink of sleep while your professor monotonically droned on about business ethics or the inverse square law? John Hall was different! John Hall entertained while he taught and THAT we support!

We must right this wrong and get Professor Hall reinstated at University of Florida. Make Your Voice Heard! Join the Facebook group! Let the president of UF know you demand justice!

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1710596



Seriously... everyone that has been to college knows it's a fucking joke... these teachers live with that fact and have to deal with.. I personally think the guy is on acid but that's beyond the point.

[Daniel]

lmao.

I Wish my school was a joke. I have to give a presentation to the secretary of military affairs in the DoS in like a month.

[Sean of the Thread]

Do you really feel you're being intellectually challengend at your "law" school?

[Daniel]

I don't go to law school. I'd say yes for the most part, and I'm not a school person at all (I can't stand it personally). However, almost every day I get exposed to something new and relevant to the things I want to do in my future career.

You also have to keep in mind that I go to the probably the best school in the nation for what I'm interested in and I knocked out my pre reqs through online courses before I got here. So, I didn't have to deal with most of the bullshit classes (I still have a few, but thats a minor drawback). I wouldn't have been able to get through 4 years of college.

[Latrinsorm]

Whoa... duuuuude.

[Skirmisher]

I may alone on this, but to me if this was a one time thing itdoesn't strike me as such a big deal.

If he came to class stoned like that on a semi regular basis or even several times it would be different.

[radamanthys]

He's a professional going to work. It's the same if he were an accountant, security guard, CEO, or anything else. There's at least a modicum of the same sort of responsibility inherent in the job of a teacher. Would it be ok if your kid's third grade teacher was drunk? On PCP?

[Daniel]

Shes from Jersey, so yes.

[Sean of the Thread]

He's a professional going to work. It's the same if he were an accountant, security guard, CEO, or anything else. There's at least a modicum of the same sort of responsibility inherent in the job of a teacher. Would it be ok if your kid's third grade teacher was drunk? On PCP?

College professors don't go by the same rules as the rest of society sadly. For fucks sake we had a 5 year legal battle to remove a terrorist professor from campus. Give me a fucking break.

[Sean]

He's a professional going to work. It's the same if he were an accountant, security guard, CEO, or anything else. There's at least a modicum of the same sort of responsibility inherent in the job of a teacher. Would it be ok if your kid's third grade teacher was drunk? On PCP?

While I don't agree that it's okay for a teacher to show up stoned I do think it's stupid to attempt to compare a teacher who works with adults to a teacher who works with third graders.

[Gan]

He's a professional going to work. It's the same if he were an accountant, security guard, CEO, or anything else. There's at least a modicum of the same sort of responsibility inherent in the job of a teacher. Would it be ok if your kid's third grade teacher was drunk? On PCP?

He's getting paid to do a job. Paid by students paying tuition for that class. I'd be pissed if he showed up stoned on my dime.

If he were my employee he would have been canned for showing up intoxicated, period. Its called gross negligence.

Comparing that to students showing up intoxicated is different because they're paying to attend class.... not getting paid (unless its a scholarship, which is a simlilar can of worms as being a stoned prof.)

[Stanley Burrell]

Longbow.

[Sean of the Thread]

He's getting paid to do a job. Paid by students paying tuition for that class. I'd be pissed if he showed up stoned on my dime.

If he were my employee he would have been canned for showing up intoxicated, period. Its called gross negligence.

Comparing that to students showing up intoxicated is different because they're paying to attend class.... not getting paid (unless its a scholarship, which is a simlilar can of worms as being a stoned prof.)

I like to pay Disney Land and show up on acid..

[Sean of the Thread]

While I don't agree that it's okay for a teacher to show up stoned I do think it's stupid to attempt to compare a teacher who works with adults to a teacher who works with third graders.

Lolz bandwagon parade watch out! Nice avatar.


Oh and I agree with your post.

[Hulkein]

Do you really feel you're being intellectually challengend at your "law" school?

Uh, yeah.

If you're not, you're wasting a lot of money because you won't be able to practice after failing the bar test.

[Skirmisher]

He's a professional going to work. It's the same if he were an accountant, security guard, CEO, or anything else. There's at least a modicum of the same sort of responsibility inherent in the job of a teacher. Would it be ok if your kid's third grade teacher was drunk? On PCP?

I'd say the ability of pupils, whose age range is more like 18-22 as opposed to 6-8, to understand whats happening should be slightly greater.

I'd say the students would most likely not be scared.

I'd say that the vast majority of students have skipped a class here or there for no good reason so the whole argument about paying for an education only goes so far with me.

I'd say that people make mistakes.

I';d say i'd be more likely to be in favor of charging him with driving drunk, since he probably did to either get to or from the campus, than to go gunning for his job.

All of the above is dependent on it being a one time event.

What if this was the day he found out his wife is sleeping with the guy he hates most in the world? Some loved one died...some tragedy befell him...whatever may be the case could have an impact on my response to his bahavior.

Again, if it was repeated...then it would be different to me and view much more harshly.