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NEW YORK Columbia University says its 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 Columbias 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
wakemewhenitsover
(1,595 posts)That's worth something.
d_r
(6,907 posts)should have stuck with the white board I guess -
http://vimeo.com/59932634
CharlieVicker
(24 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)hunter
(38,322 posts)... I was thinking about.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)you show your rear
Gorp
(716 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)Jus' askin' ...
eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)If you can't make your point in simple, direct words, you can't teach.