Anyone a Biological sciences major?

[TBonewannabe]

My sister-in-law says the department is going down the *******. I reckon ole Snoopy hired someone over the department that noone can stand and over half the teachers have quit. To make it sports related, any athletes that might have these majors could really <17> up the APR if they can't take hardly any classes. There are alot of classes that State isn't offering now and some just every 3rd semester. I can see accreditation issues coming from this if something doesn't change.

 

[SallyStansbury]

TBone,
Yeah,
The new Dept Head is cracking heads, busting balls, etc.... Essentially they hired a John Cohen. Imagine 1/4-1/3 of the baseball players transfering when Cohen comes in; would this be a bad thing?
Heads needed to be cracked, balls needed busting, the same tired song and dance was getting old.
She is from plant and soil sciences and brings with her a nice dose of applied science.
It will be good for the department and the students in the long run.
Athletes still have a few dumbed down courses that can be taken without too terribly much effort.

 

[Todd4State]

Essentially they hired a John Cohen. Imagine 1/4-1/3 of the baseball players transfering when Cohen comes in; would this be a bad thing?

I especially hope Russ Sneed transfers. I just don't like him as a player.

Maybe I'll like him better once a real coach comes in and doesn't treat our team like we are in the YMCA.

 

[jakldawg]

any athletes that might have these majors could really <17> up the APR if they can't take hardly any classes.

They don't need a platoon of full professors to teach Plants & Humans to the athletes.

/snark

 

[Henry Kissinger]

If Walter Diehl still teaches, the department is great. If not, it's screwed.

 

[SallyStansbury]

Will never forget a lecture he gave on the sympathetic nervous system response to a fight or flight situation. Dr. Diehl's voice is really really loud but during this particular lecture he got quieter and quieter......finally his volume was reduced to inaudible mumbling ala Jackie Sherrill as he faced the chalk board writing boring stuff on it. Then when everyone was effectively lulled to sleep, he turns around, full bore screaming all 280 lbs of him sprinting to the edge of the stage still babbling about the sypathetic response. People jumped and screamed and likely pooped their pants, at least on the front several rows. Too funny. That guy really gave a good effort teaching, props to him.
He might not have been able to fit through a transom window ala Clyde Q, but that screaming stunt was kick@ss.

 

[RaiderDawg24]

I finished my grad work in the department. When Downer stepped down, our idiot ex-Arts & Sciences Dean hired the worst possible new person for department head and he ran the department into the gutter. You can blame academic hires on the dean and provost, not the president. That dept. head is gone and the new one is making some major changes. They have hired 9 new faculty in the past 3 years, many problem faculty/staff have been fired or moved on, and they are beginning a complete remodeling of Harned beginning in the summer / fall of this year. They cut / changed the class schedule because of the remodeling and to let the new faculty get their research programs established. It will go back to normal once Harned is remodeled.

Diehl took an administrative position in research, I don't think he will teach or be in the department much.

I am embarrassed to say I taught several Plants and Human's labs. Even our greatest "Einstein" athletes didn't have problems passing that joke of a lab.