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undeterred

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Tue Feb 19, 2013, 10:40 PM Feb 2013

Columbia professor baffles students with stripping, 9/11 video footage during science class

NEW YORK — Columbia University says it’s reviewing a science class in which a professor stripped to his underwear and showed 9/11 video footage during a lecture on quantum mechanics.

The Frontiers of Science class on Monday morning with Professor Emlyn Hughes also included two other participants dressed in black, one of whom used a sword to destroy a stuffed animal. Video of the event was posted to Bwog, the online home of Columbia’s monthly undergraduate magazine.

It starts with the professor stripping with his back to the students as music plays and an image of a skull is projected on a screen. Later, two stuffed animals are placed on stools, one of which is stabbed by a person with a sword. In the background, a video shows the fall of the World Trade Center and an image of Osama bin Laden.

A female student watching Hughes could be heard repeating, “What is happening?” as the performance went on. It ended with the professor returning to the stage. “In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain and start over again,” Hughes said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/higher-education/columbia-professor-baffles-students-with-stripping-911-video-footage-during-science-class/2013/02/19/ad8de966-7b01-11e2-9c27-fdd594ea6286_story.html

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Columbia professor baffles students with stripping, 9/11 video footage during science class (Original Post) undeterred Feb 2013 OP
Professor Hughes just gave me a laugh. wakemewhenitsover Feb 2013 #1
here's the video d_r Feb 2013 #2
Were I in his class, I'd want a refund. CharlieVicker Feb 2013 #3
He'd have made a better impression just playing some EBN kentauros Feb 2013 #4
Yeah, that's better than the Star Trek gray heads emerging from the fog time travel scene... hunter Feb 2013 #8
this is what happens when you run out of frontiers undeterred Feb 2013 #5
Proof that physics CAN be fun! Gorp Feb 2013 #6
LSD as a teaching aid? Myrina Feb 2013 #7
Show business =\= education. eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 #9
Since when did Glenn Beck start teaching physics? Initech Feb 2013 #10

hunter

(38,322 posts)
8. Yeah, that's better than the Star Trek gray heads emerging from the fog time travel scene...
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 02:53 PM
Feb 2013

... I was thinking about.



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