Let’s set the stage here.

You walk into “The Application of Platonic and Hegelian Ethics to Business” (It’s exhausting just saying the name, isn’t it?), an extra credit symposium, take your seat between the girl who raises her hand every five seconds and the guy who comes to class only to fall asleep, pull out your books and suppress a yawn. You’re exhausted, having gotten no sleep after a late night Teen Mom marathon and barely made it to class on time.  You are in no mood to listen to lectures today. But you need the extra credit so here you are. And there your professor is, walking into class, putting down his bag, writing on the board, and then…calling in the strippers?

Yes, I said strippers. And I meant it.

This was not an exercise to make sure you were paying attention. This is reality, at least it was for the students of Jack Rapport, and assistant professor at La Salle University, who claims he was simply trying to  enrich his teaching by using real life application. And getting his students lap dances? Sure, just like the f**ksaws guy, right?

What is wrong with the world? Have all of these professors gone mad? Are these their attempts to gain media attention, be the cool teacher, or just get their students to like them? Because I hate to break it to ya, while I’m sure Rapport has given his students a great story, I don’t think this stint will win him any professor of the year awards. It’s fun in the moment, but that sort of thing won’t help students in the long run. This certainly wouldn’t get a guy on my professor of the year list.

But you know what would? A few things a whole lot easier to pull off than that, like:

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Speechless. Absolutely speechless.

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Whether you see it in the movies, hear it from your peers or participate in it yourself, it is a generally understood fact that college students like to party. Some adopt the habit during their first Halloween away from home and hold tightly onto it well into their twenties, while others pick it up only between midterm exams. Either way, it happens; it’s been happening and it probably will continue to happen, as long as there are weekend evenings and boring classes and closet doors that prop sideways into perfectly proportioned beer pong tables.

So why were a few neighboring families of Northwestern University so shocked to discover students who “parked themselves on a neighbor’s parkway for a little love fest” or are “hollering about “Bl** J*bs”? Sure, this behavior isn’t acceptable in a world where mothers and fathers and their eight year-old daughters are riding their bicycles to church services on Saturday evenings. But when you’re living in the midst of a university, it should be almost be expected that this will happen.

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As most of you are gearing up to go back to school, I am sitting on my parents’ couch (eating cookie dough) flipping through my pictures from the past 2 glorious years. Northwestern doesn’t start until late September, so I still have a lot more time before I start my junior year.

Me, a junior! I can’t even believe it myself.

I can still vividly remember driving to my high school graduation, trying to make sure my white dress didn’t get dirty and feeling grateful that I had foregone the mascara. But those days are long gone and now, as an almost-junior, I’m already starting to think forward to my next big graduation. I’m wondering where I’ll be in life, what my plan will be, what experiences I’ll look back on fondly that haven’t happened yet. Older people always tell me, “enjoy college, best four years of my life!” Ok, yeah, thanks. That doesn’t thoroughly scare me. Does it count as nostalgia if the experience hasn’t even ended yet? Read More »

Note to self: do not send pornographic pictures to students…

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