Monday, January 31, 2011

Whither math departments?

On top of the recent lunacy at the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba math units, there's this from Cal State Northridge:

A Cal State Northridge math professor has been charged with urinating on a colleague's office door during a dispute between the two men.
Awesome. I have to wonder whether this stems from a personal or intellectual disagreement...

3 comments:

Niles said...

Was he trying to prove >--< was 10 inches?

Rev.Paperboy said...

sounds like a proper academic pissing match to me...

Scott MacNeil said...

Maybe he was trying to demonstrate a particular rate of liquid speed over distance = yellow?