Political Payback at OSU? - Art Robinson

[barfo]

I guess there is no update. Two of his kids apparently did finish their PhDs at OSU, so perhaps they worked it out.

I didn't know Art was supported by Robert Mercer, or rather, I didn't know at the time who Robert Mercer was.

barfo

 

[Lanny]

College is serious business. Seriously, these asshole professors think they're god, but in reality they're a bunch of god-complex napoleons who barely know more than the students they teach. They stay one chapter ahead of the class. Teachers are a sham. I learned more in eight years in the private sector than I have learned in three years of college, but I have to have that piece of paper that says I'm smart. Fuck the education system.

You must never have attended an engineering class, a physics class or a chemistry class 'cause they were all tough. Okay, chemistry was easy the first term or maybe even the second term but not the third.
If you're talking about economics, yeah, that was pretty simple, all I had to do was spend about 15 minutes before class each day to get all the homework done. One of the easiest 'A's I ever got.
Also, German was a difficult class.

I remember solving an equation in a job interview at Tektronix that involved solution by simultaneous equation that mystified my eventual boss who expected the short cut Thevinin's Equivalent solution. He had never seen the simultaneous equation solution before. Did I need all the math at my job at Tek? No, unless you want to count the one time I had a calculate the power in a difficult voltage wave form using calculus. But I was ready if called upon.

Of course, Tektronix had their own Education and Training Department that was really good. They hired professors from Oregon State and the University of Portland for some of their classes.

Nope, my profs were really good. No one felt like they knew anything close to what our profs knew.

 

[Lanny]

I think you must have misread that. I don't see anything that suggests that any faculty member doesn't have a PhD, and a check of their web page confirms that they all do, assuming it is up to date.

barfo

They've all had to have PhDs for a long time at OSU. Even the lab instructors are at least grad students.

They allowed profs with a Masters a long time ago.

Even PCC requires a Masters to teach.

Side Note: At one time the state of Oregon allowed anyone with a PhD to teach at any public school in the state. Now, they have to have training in education.

 

[Lanny]

All politics is local...

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

The World Net Daily (WND) is a rag. Here's what Salon says about it:
https://www.salon.com/2011/04/14/world_net_daily_mad/