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Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:18 pm
by micheagle
Wu reminded me of that old wizard guy from Big Trouble in Little China.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:27 pm
by BCEagle74
angrychicken {l Wrote}:Psychobiology of Mental Disorders with Joe Tecci was awesome. One night a week, and halfway through each class, he would stop teaching, turn out the lights, and made everyone meditate for 15 or 20 minutes. He claimed that he would need total silence while meditating or else he would get crippling migranes. Of course, someone would either fart or snore about halfway through, prompting people (i.e., me) to laugh. It was usually just a nice nap in the middle of class. It seemed like the rest of the course was him trying to convince us that he could tell when people were lying by the number of times they blinked.


Shut the fuck up before I stab you to death, isn't is a nice day here sitting in the dust bowl, you motherfuckers are all gonna die if I get a bad grade, and the new freshman girls all look so good, I may have to Boston Strangler a few of these teases, and that Spaz is such a darling as Head Coach, and I hate these jock fucks who think they own campus, and aren't we blessed to have a Church so close, I wanna castrate any priest for the scandal and the food is so good, I would like to poison everyone like Jim Jones, and did I tell you I sleepwalk with a Bowie knife, but my Doctor says I am cured.

What a stupid fucking course.

I could write that medical tome for living 2 years on South Street and if you don't believe me I'll kill you.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:30 pm
by DuchesneEast
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Silas is old. I love the story of escaping from the communist on top of a train with no food for days.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:32 pm
by DomingoOrtiz
Singleton - US History

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:36 pm
by Endless Mike
Henry Blackwell, English department. I took at least 3 classes with him. I was an English major and he picked a lot of great books, like Faulkner. Class discussions always went way off topic and were very fun. He was one of those professors who was so into the subject and so smart that he would forget to tie his shoes and just be really absent-minded overall. He'd show up late to every class with a stack of books and assorted papers, but he was brilliant. He usually only assigned a few short papers and he always gave an automatic 24-hour extension.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:48 pm
by Second Round Skinner
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:Alan Reinerman, great history professor.


Agreed. One of the few classes I didn't dread attending.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:04 pm
by ryrob
All this talk about history reminds me, Robin Fleming for European History was great, probably the best lecturer I've seen at BC. Even made the core bearable.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:08 pm
by Endless Mike
Drew Yanno, screenwriting. The guy is a professional screenwriter and in his class you talk about movies, and at the end of the semester watch Witness while reading the screenplay. Then you can take an advanced screenwriting class with him and your final project is the first act of a screenplay. Nice guy, great class.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:18 pm
by 2008Eagle
Michael Keith and Dale Herbeck in comm stand out.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:20 pm
by Endless Mike
2008Eagle {l Wrote}:Michael Keith and Dale Herbeck in comm stand out.


BIIIIIIG DALE!

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:22 pm
by b0mberMan
Endless Mike {l Wrote}:
2008Eagle {l Wrote}:Michael Keith and Dale Herbeck in comm stand out.


BIIIIIIG DALE!


You mean Peter Griffin?

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:25 pm
by Endless Mike
b0mberMan {l Wrote}:
Endless Mike {l Wrote}:
2008Eagle {l Wrote}:Michael Keith and Dale Herbeck in comm stand out.


BIIIIIIG DALE!


You mean Peter Griffin?


That's the one. Best part of any Big Dale class was him talking about his no-good kid. "The kid does this all the time. He's no good."

We had him for an Internet law comm class, and the subject matter consisted of hate groups and pr0n.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:28 pm
by b0mberMan
Endless Mike {l Wrote}:
b0mberMan {l Wrote}:
Endless Mike {l Wrote}:
2008Eagle {l Wrote}:Michael Keith and Dale Herbeck in comm stand out.


BIIIIIIG DALE!


You mean Peter Griffin?


That's the one. Best part of any Big Dale class was him talking about his no-good kid. "The kid does this all the time. He's no good."

We had him for an Internet law comm class, and the subject matter consisted of hate groups and pr0n.


I took that 2nd semester Senior year with a bunch of my friends pass/fail. Fantastic idea. Plus I won 80 bucks by finishing the final in under 20 minutes.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:29 pm
by DavidGordonsFoot
soulhunter {l Wrote}:From just an impressive professor/big mind perspective, Prof. Peter Clote i thought was up there. I had him for Genetic Algorithms as part of the Comp Sci track, but i think they gave him his own section for Computational Biology in the Biology department. For anyone who took it there is no way they will say that Algorithms was there favorite class, but the man himself was scary smart


Clote was really smart but an awful teacher. He was definitely a researcher first.

Himes' Intro to Christianity class changed me.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:34 pm
by hansen
DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:
soulhunter {l Wrote}:From just an impressive professor/big mind perspective, Prof. Peter Clote i thought was up there. I had him for Genetic Algorithms as part of the Comp Sci track, but i think they gave him his own section for Computational Biology in the Biology department. For anyone who took it there is no way they will say that Algorithms was there favorite class, but the man himself was scary smart


Clote was really smart but an awful teacher. He was definitely a researcher first.

Himes' Intro to Christianity class changed me.


i never took clote because i believe he got sick my senior year. that kind of sucked because i wanted to see why everyone in CS basically jerked off at the mention of him...

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:44 pm
by 1981Eagle
ryrob {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:I'm sure none of mine are there anymore. Fr. Flanigan for "Perspectives", Prof. Devlin for Accounting, Prof Domohowski for Cost Accounting, Chase/Getty for History, Fr. Caulfield for Calculus, Prof Glynn-Taxes, Prof Corsini-Accounting Theory, Prof Tehranian-Finance, Prof Wright-Operation Mgmt., Fr. McGillvary-English. Many great ones, few poor ones.


Glynn is still there and teaches a joke of a FAST III (Advanced Accounting) course at night. Corsini and Tehranian are too, but I don't know what they teach. The rest don't sound familiar.



Thanks. Wow. Glynn was pretty old when I was there. Corsini and Tehranian were up and comers. There was a hot blonde in my finance class. Tehranian was handing out the graded departmental mid-terms and she did real well so he asked her for a kiss since she did so well. She blushed and scurried back to her seat. In today's PC environment he would be fired or suspended.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:46 pm
by bignick33
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:
ryrob {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:I'm sure none of mine are there anymore. Fr. Flanigan for "Perspectives", Prof. Devlin for Accounting, Prof Domohowski for Cost Accounting, Chase/Getty for History, Fr. Caulfield for Calculus, Prof Glynn-Taxes, Prof Corsini-Accounting Theory, Prof Tehranian-Finance, Prof Wright-Operation Mgmt., Fr. McGillvary-English. Many great ones, few poor ones.


Glynn is still there and teaches a joke of a FAST III (Advanced Accounting) course at night. Corsini and Tehranian are too, but I don't know what they teach. The rest don't sound familiar.



Thanks. Wow. Glynn was pretty old when I was there. Corsini and Tehranian were up and comers. There was a hot blonde in my finance class. Tehranian was handing out the graded departmental mid-terms and she did real well so he asked her for a kiss since she did so well. She blushed and scurried back to her seat. In today's PC environment he would be fired or suspended.


Tehranian is head of the department. Apparently he raises a lot of money and is quite the character.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:49 pm
by pick6pedro
Professor Burgess: septegenarian queen of creepy forensics. Always hot girls in nursing school classes +1. Mostly videos of violent crime reenactments +2. Actual question from 50 Q multiple choice final: "which are the following is a projectile: a) knife b) bullet c) gun d) sword." +3. Hearing an old woman say "dildoooooos and anal residue" is beyond entertaining +4.

Side note - I recently read a book by the FBI profiler that was the model for Silence of the Lambs (he's known as the Mindhunter) referred to working with her extensively on many occassions.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:51 pm
by bignick33
pick6pedro {l Wrote}:anal residue


I have an image for most things, but I'm gonna defer to TRE (rhymes with ghey) this time.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:54 pm
by DuchesneEast
Second Round Skinner {l Wrote}:
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:Alan Reinerman, great history professor.


Agreed. One of the few classes I didn't dread attending.



I had him freshman year European history and took every class he offerred. If you took good notes, his tests were verbatim what he said it class.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:09 pm
by 1981Eagle
bignick33 {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:
ryrob {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:I'm sure none of mine are there anymore. Fr. Flanigan for "Perspectives", Prof. Devlin for Accounting, Prof Domohowski for Cost Accounting, Chase/Getty for History, Fr. Caulfield for Calculus, Prof Glynn-Taxes, Prof Corsini-Accounting Theory, Prof Tehranian-Finance, Prof Wright-Operation Mgmt., Fr. McGillvary-English. Many great ones, few poor ones.


Glynn is still there and teaches a joke of a FAST III (Advanced Accounting) course at night. Corsini and Tehranian are too, but I don't know what they teach. The rest don't sound familiar.



Thanks. Wow. Glynn was pretty old when I was there. Corsini and Tehranian were up and comers. There was a hot blonde in my finance class. Tehranian was handing out the graded departmental mid-terms and she did real well so he asked her for a kiss since she did so well. She blushed and scurried back to her seat. In today's PC environment he would be fired or suspended.


Tehranian is head of the department. Apparently he raises a lot of money and is quite the character.



He's a great guy and great teacher. I'm glad he's done well. Did his doctoral work at Bama as I recall.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:11 pm
by hansen
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:
bignick33 {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:
ryrob {l Wrote}:
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:I'm sure none of mine are there anymore. Fr. Flanigan for "Perspectives", Prof. Devlin for Accounting, Prof Domohowski for Cost Accounting, Chase/Getty for History, Fr. Caulfield for Calculus, Prof Glynn-Taxes, Prof Corsini-Accounting Theory, Prof Tehranian-Finance, Prof Wright-Operation Mgmt., Fr. McGillvary-English. Many great ones, few poor ones.


Glynn is still there and teaches a joke of a FAST III (Advanced Accounting) course at night. Corsini and Tehranian are too, but I don't know what they teach. The rest don't sound familiar.



Thanks. Wow. Glynn was pretty old when I was there. Corsini and Tehranian were up and comers. There was a hot blonde in my finance class. Tehranian was handing out the graded departmental mid-terms and she did real well so he asked her for a kiss since she did so well. She blushed and scurried back to her seat. In today's PC environment he would be fired or suspended.


Tehranian is head of the department. Apparently he raises a lot of money and is quite the character.



He's a great guy and great teacher. I'm glad he's done well. Did his doctoral work at BAMA! as I recall.



fixed.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:18 pm
by BCMurt09
David Quigley, History- by far one of, if not the best, I had in four years.
Atef Ghobrial, Arabic- yeah, I took arabic, and Prof. Ghobrial was the man. He really cared about his students, cliche to say I know, but in his case its completely true.
Alan Rogers, History- He was a great prof, but not just for his teaching abilities. I took his class sophomore year and always wore the same red hat (one of those Mount Gay Rum sailing hats) to class. I didn't ever really see him again until senior year, walking through the Dustbowl. I was wearing a new hat and as we passed he said that he liked my new hat, that the other one had gotten a little too ratty. That impressed me.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:06 pm
by dixieagle
I went to B.C. in the dark ages ('70-'74).

Dr. Tom O'Connor was a favorite. Dr. Donald Gertmenian was a brilliant young English prof who got more excited about his subject than anyone I'd ever seen. Fr. James Casey, who taught Faith, Reason and the Gospels was a sweetie (and had my now-husband and me work on an assignment together - bless you, Fr. Casey). I also loved a course in the Arthurian Legend that took forever to get into because the prof was terrific (he also taught courses in Chaucer, I believe) but I can't remember his name, dangit! P. Albert Duhamel was brilliant; I didn't realize until I read "My Life in France" that Julia Child cooked her first TV meal on his show, "I've Been Reading" in 1962!

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:18 pm
by pick6pedro
BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:David Quigley, History- by far one of, if not the best, I had in four years.
Atef Ghobrial, Arabic- yeah, I took arabic, and Prof. Ghobrial was the man. He really cared about his students, cliche to say I know, but in his case its completely true.
Alan Rogers, History- He was a great prof, but not just for his teaching abilities. I took his class sophomore year and always wore the same red hat (one of those Mount Gay Rum sailing hats) to class. I didn't ever really see him again until senior year, walking through the Dustbowl. I was wearing a new hat and as we passed he said that he liked my new hat, that the other one had gotten a little too ratty. That impressed me.


Great call on Prof. Rogers...I took several classes with him and was always pleased with his methods, wit, and interesting insight in the subject.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:25 pm
by WhiskeyEagle
Seth Jacobs is amazing- the history of the Vietnam War class he taught was life changing. His LBJ and Nixon imitations were epic, fairly presented both sides to all topics and on the last day of class he received, no joke, a 5 minute standing ovation.

Tim Crawford is the man.
O'Neill taught a great Polly Sci class on Northern Ireland too- also the Burns head librarian.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:06 pm
by BCMurt09
WhiskeyEagle {l Wrote}:Seth Jacobs is amazing- the history of the Vietnam War class he taught was life changing. His LBJ and Nixon imitations were epic, fairly presented both sides to all topics and on the last day of class he received, no joke, a 5 minute standing ovation.

Tim Crawford is the man.
O'Neill taught a great Polly Sci class on Northern Ireland too- also the Burns head librarian.



Jacobs is a great call. Did he read aloud his PEPs when you were there? He always chose a few choice ones that were usually pretty hilarious.

I took O'Neill my last semester (Spring 09) and though it was a great class. One of the last classes he gave us a tour of Burns Library which was actually pretty cool.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:24 pm
by Chicken Patties
Jacobs is a great call. Did he read aloud his PEPs when you were there? He always chose a few choice ones that were usually pretty hilarious.

I took O'Neill my last semester (Spring 09) and though it was a great class. One of the last classes he gave us a tour of Burns Library which was actually pretty cool.[/quote]

I had O'neill for an irish history up to the rebellion. I don't think i've ever taken more notes in my life. I also think he tried to recruit my roommate and I into the IRB.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:48 pm
by 15Radnor
Twomey: Employment Law
Richard Powers: Miscellaneous undergrad law classes
Father Imbelli: Exploring Catholicism

Wasn't a big fan of O'Neill's Politics of Northern Ireland class--Probably because I knew more about the subject than him and I didn't like his political stance. However, he did have some great guests.

Re: Best BC profs

PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:28 am
by WhiskeyEagle
15Radnor {l Wrote}:Twomey: Employment Law
Richard Powers: Miscellaneous undergrad law classes
Father Imbelli: Exploring Catholicism

Wasn't a big fan of O'Neill's Politics of Northern Ireland class--Probably because I knew more about the subject than him and I didn't like his political stance. However, he did have some great guests.


Knew more about the subject than him? Somehow I doubt that, unless of course you are from there and/or lived it. Also, I didn't get a heavy dose of politics/ opinions during his lectures.