While the student shouldn't be saying that, if you say its anonymous you mean it or you don't.

//always signs the bottom of my evaluations
///Not afraid to say if they suck

NickelP:
//always signs the bottom of my evaluations
///Not afraid to say if they suck

Plus, the other student's face when confronted by a forged signature is hilarious.

My physics prof this term was mentioning what people right on evaluations. Someone hated him so much that he just filled out "E" for all the questions. Normally E means bad but the student failed to actually read some of the questions which asked stuff like "How easy was this class?" and the like.

DIAF.

"To hell with all gay teachers who are terrible with their jobs and try to fail students!"

Straight teachers who are terrible are OK, though, Li'l Adolf?

FYI: Instructors either ignore evaluations or obsess over them and try to figure out who wrote them. They rarely read them for the "constructive criticism".

/I ignore them
//unless they're funny

Bahahahahahahhaa.

What's the good word?

When I read the first part of the headline, I expected a dirty needle stuck into the teacher's chair, like the old urban legend. Guess not :(

We once all criticized a prof's hideously out of control moustache on the evaluation. He did finally trim it. I mean, it was once holding bits of scrambled eggs, another time it was cream cheese, another time a chunk of soup cracker. You can't pay attention to what's being said when you're waiting for food particles to drop from someone's face.

Obviously the liberal college professors don't take free speech as seriously as they say.

While the student is a dumbass, this teacher is a shiatbag. You have to be some kind of vindictive ass goes to go out of your way to track down a student who was just being an dumbass

WOW. the only thing that made me believe this happened in America is that it is the University of Georgia.

/Come to Georgia, where even the educational institutions are in the boonies

The professor must have expected him to do like, work, and had the balls to actually give out failing grades.

Stupid assholes, making us learn.

Ahhhhh.....the I hope you die of AIDS, or get AIDS in a random and silly way gimmick.

So hack.

It's not edgy, it's just stupid and awkward. We, as a society, need to be more creative with our insults.

This really doesn't surprise me. UGA stopped being a university for the students YEARS ago. The university caters to those who have graduated, not those who actively seek a degree.

Don't even get me started on their elitist/pro-atlanta mindset.

/former student
//faculty there blows
///no matter what they do, UGA will always be an overgrown Ag school
////Ag = Agricultural
//sorry for so many slashies

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *BREATH* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

fark him for being a homophobe, but if it's anonymous I'd say he has a pretty binding legal statement there. He didn't threaten the guy, just said some mean things to him.

Oldiron_79: Obviously the liberal college professors don't take free speech as seriously as they say.

3/10. Try using "libtard" or something.

"Chokes on dick?"

This is ludacris. These things are anonymous for a reason. You should be able put whatever you feel on those things (I sure do, and I definatley would not want the professor to know it was me). The fact he wrote mean things sucks, but it is his opinion. He never threated his life, so they should'nt have done anything about it.

If something is not anonymous, it is morally wrong to represent it as anonymous. While this guy's words were unquestionably out of line, now that it is not anonymous and everyone knows it is not anonymous, nobody will feel safe writing a critical review.

Oldiron_79: Obviously the liberal college professors don't take free speech as seriously as they say.

Threats are not covered under the First Amendment.

Obviously conservatives don't take the Constitution as seriously as they say.

(See? Works both ways.)

I hate school surveys, and I never fill them out truthfully.

Yikes. I will never write an anonymous anything ever again.

xzservb: This is ludacris. These things are anonymous for a reason. You should be able put whatever you feel on those things (I sure do, and I definatley would not want the professor to know it was me). The fact he wrote mean things sucks, but it is his opinion. He never threated his life, so they should'nt have done anything about it.


I agree. Although he abused the purpose of the evaluations, he still should have remained anonymous.

I wrote "FU" on an evaluation once.

Then went home and barricaded my door and waited for the gestapo.

What the hell? The prof should have never been able to figure out it was that student... at least not through handwriting analysis. The comments on my school's evaluations are transcribed, which is then given to the prof. Of course, the kid was a dumbass for doing it twice since deductive reasoning could probably easily pinpoint his identity.

Also, I hate how when stuff like this happens people claim it hurts the ____ community. It's an isolated incident. It is against a single person. The community has nothing to do with it. Reminds me of the whole Imus thing. Virtually no one would have known about it and therefor would have been hurt by this had idiots such as Sharpton publicized the crap out of it.

Still not right, but meh....

Cue the ACLU in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..

If the kid or teacher was black, Jackson and Sharpton would be all over this.

/Let the Jena Six rot in prison.

Maybe I am just a "get off my lawn" type, but I can't believe the student wasn't expelled. Certainly I was snarky in a few eval in my day, but jesus, this guy went way beyond snark.

FloydA: Oldiron_79: Obviously the liberal college professors don't take free speech as seriously as they say.

Threats are not covered under the First Amendment.

Obviously conservatives don't take the Constitution as seriously as they say.

(See? Works both ways.)

what threats?

Robobuu: What the hell? The prof should have never been able to figure out it was that student... at least not through handwriting analysis.


I've had courses in which I get a couple dozen great evaluations and one really, really crappy one.

I assure you that I have never needed handwriting analysis to know who the crappy one was from.

It was from the kid who tried to plagiarize his paper and was caught, and then whined about it, flaked on attendance, completely choked on the exams and didn't participate in discussions or complete any of his assigned readings.

When all of the evaluations are good except one, the one loser student almost inevitably stands out.

xzservb: This is ludacris. These things are anonymous for a reason. You should be able put whatever you feel on those things (I sure do, and I definatley would not want the professor to know it was me). The fact he wrote mean things sucks, but it is his opinion. He never threated his life, so they should'nt have done anything about it.

Holy crap, Ludacris is on Fark!

I read a letter in this ethics column today from one of the kid's classmates asking if this was ethical.

/yes a real newspaper
//no I'm not 70

So "I hope you die of AIDS" is right out...
is "I hope you Die In A Fire" still ok?

Just trying to get a feel for "the rules" here.

So, in order to promote tolerance, we are punishing someone who spoke in anonymity about his views. Tolerance is the biggest bullshiat word on the planet. "Liberals" don't tolerate viewpoints of conservatives, calling them intolerant. Well isn't calling someone's viewpoint worthless the same as not tolerating them? Unless his civil rights have been violated no intolerance occurred. The kid expressed himself, whether anonymous or not, in a completely legal way. Now he's punished for thinking differently.

Its only tolerance if you let it happen you farking retards.

/Doesn't give a fark who you fark.

zdamort:

what threats?


You're right, "harassment" would have been a better choice of words.

Verbal and written harassment are also not considered protected speech, of course, so my point is the same.

The kid is obviously retarded, but he made no overt threats against the teacher's life. All he said is that he hopes that teacher gets AIDS and dies, not that he would be the one administering said STD.

This is simply a case of douchebaggery all around.

xzservb: This is ludacris.

No, this is Ludacris:



This situation, though, is ludicrous. :P

/oh, and should I be getting a kick out of these replies since I'm a current UGA student?
//still waiting for an Athens Fark party....

FTA: During a phone interview with The Red & Black, Disponzio said, "As always, there were good comments and bad comments. I am a difficult professor. After receiving the comment [in January] I went to my dean about it. I was not amused by it."

Somehow I would think that the intent was to demean and humiliate, not to amuse the reader. I could be wrong.

All professors generally know that these evaluations are fairly useless. The correlation between the grade the student expects to revieve and how well they like the teacher is about the strongest you'll ever see. I while ago I read a study where the R2 was about .96.

Anyways, I love reading what they have to say. A few people have called me argent, but my favorite was when a student called me "crazy like a fox."

That being said, I don't think I'd care if a student threatened to kill me on one of these forms. I don't think students who come to class stoned at 9AM really have the follow through to finish the job.

Bucky Katt: Oldiron_79: Obviously the liberal college professors don't take free speech as seriously as they say.

3/10. Try using "libtard" or something.


LOL'd

As a former professor, I've come to expect everything from a glowing evaluation to the evaluation that slams me...all from the same class. What's really irritating, is I can honestly say, I've had FAR worse comments on my evals and I never once went to my Dean about it. I would always take into account that there was some truth to every eval and would try to make my courses better for my students.

On that note:

A) This professor should have NEVER know which student it was and even if he did, the Dean was wrong in taking any kind of action. These are anonymous evals and no action should be taken, ever.

B) Student is a tool. By writing such stupid comments, what did he expect? Even writing anonymous evals you have to expect that the prof knows which students are giving him negative evals.

C) The University needs revisit what anonymous means on the evals and if they want them to be truly anonymous. If they don't, they need to inform the students that the eval could be used against them if they write comments like the student in TFA did.

Robobuu: What the hell? The prof should have never been able to figure out it was that student... at least not through handwriting analysis. The comments on my school's evaluations are transcribed, which is then given to the prof.

Officially, that's how it's done at UGA as well. However, most of the social science departments are so understaffed that having a staff member type up all the reports is too expensive so the evaluations are handed over to the professor and his or her TAs to "review". UGA is also supposed to follow Georgia's Open Record Act but they get around that by never writing anything down that they don't have to. Faculty are discouraged from communicating with students through e-mail for the same reason, you don't want to create a paper trail that a student could use against the school.

FloydA: zdamort:

what threats?


You're right, "harassment" would have been a better choice of words.

Verbal and written harassment are also not considered protected speech, of course, so my point is the same.

I don't see how that's harassment. It's not like the student calls his teacher every day and says these things, or did it in a context where it wasn't asked for. They ask for opinions on these forms, and promise anonymity. If that's the student's honest opinion then that's what he should've written.

People should be smart enough to know that it's not really anonymous. I've seen people get tracked down in both a education and work environment.

I don't think there is a law that makes the anonymous part legally binding but rather put there to encourage the evaluatee the be honest.

"Beck answered the evaluation question "What were the most helpful/useful aspects of the course?" with "Joe Disponzio needs help with his issues dealing with homosexuality. Fags are not cool and neither are ney [sic] yorkers.""

I always knew New Yorkers sucked horse penises, but this kid just confirmed it. Ney Yorkers!!!! Also, Eli Manning spends too much time staring at Michael Strahans butt too. Bucha pillow biters!

Signed,
Billy Graham

You can learn from honest evaluations, even this one professor
prick

/Beck is from Gordon
//He'll probably get a parade

Arthur Jumbles: Faculty are discouraged from communicating with students through e-mail for the same reason, you don't want to create a paper trail that a student could use against the school.

What does the Ethics Committee have to say about that? As a student I used to demand certain information in writing.

The best UGA evaluations are from Christians in the anthropology and biology courses, "I liked Prof. Smith and I'm sorry he's going to burn in the Lake of Fire but I did not evolve from a monkey."