CUE-LESS PROFESSORS

Some professors are evidently less concerned about their CUE ratings than others.

Last Thursday, in a physics class that shall remain nameless (after all, we don't want to be gossips), the professor announced to the class that they would have a new problem set, and it would be due on Thursday, December 22.

When students suggested that some might actually go home on vacation, the professor was perplexed.

All right, he decided. He would make it due next Tuesday. All right, said the somewhat disheartened students.

But there was more. You see, the students needed to come back on Tuesday to get another homework--this one due the first day back from vacation.

"What?" gasped the students. Well, we're told the students weren't thrilled by their surprise workload.

Perhaps the professor's next move should have been something else. Perhaps he should have adjourned class or moved on to discussing non locality or some other recondite concept. Bury their brains in numbers, transformations, and differential calculus.

But he didn't. Fatefully, maybe. Stupidly, perhaps. The professor proceeded to pass out the CUE guide evaluations.

We at Dartboard have not seen statistics since the QRR, but we can't help but thinking that vengeance may have some affect on the mean.