Reply #33: i'm asking not telling but i am asking

[pitohui]

it sounds like you believe the students are making it up?, i have a different experience, mine was that some professors would work with you and some were only concerned w. gate-keeping, when i was a grad student assigned to teach, one of my instructors told me in words of one syllable to discriminate and used that word and gave the whole long rant about how discrimination really means using your mind blah blah blah de blah

by gate-keeping yeah, gender, race, class, certain mannerisms that might be "gay" all these were objectionable to certain instructors, we live in a dream world if we kid ourselves that all college instructors are wonderful caring progressives what you're missing is this is COLORADO -- there was prob. majorly bent out of shaping because here's a "chick" helping black people in new orleans instead of servicing the prof's ego needs

jackasses are rather evenly spread through the population, and since students considerably outnumber instructors, the odds seem good

no, here you are stepping in my area of expertise, i may not know beans abt academia, but this former professional gambler is here to say i'd love to play poker with you if you don't see the hole in that one

many professors, even today, have tenure, but even a lowly grad assistant (i was one back in the day) is in a position of power over the student

i don't want to be the person to disillusion you but it's an unfortunate reality of human nature that the more powerful you are, the more of an asshole you can become because, well, you can get away with it

if you want to gamble that the proportion of assholes in the population of the utterly powerless (students so poor they have to join the nat'l guard for extra $) is the same or even close to the same as the proportion of assholes in a population of the powerful (those who completed their education and got tenure or those who completed their education and now are looking down on those who didn't for not being all boostrappy) ...

well i'll just say it again, i can tell you're no math or statistics professor, no offense, but you haven't got a clue on how odds are shaped