As per custom, Bwog unveils its list of the most outrageous and laughable comments made by professors at their first class meetings of the year. Be sure to email us with all of the inspiring, hilarious, and insane things your professors say today to bwgossip@columbia.edu to keep our tradition alive, and please check back as we continuously update the list.

Christina Hunter, Art Hum

"This is a very easy class to fall asleep in, especially if you're an athlete and have already ran 5000 laps. I suggest you sit in the uncomfortable chair in the front to stay awake."

Self-described "quirky" Political Science Professor Mona El-Ghobashy, in Intro to Comparative Politics

(Explaining her thoughts on cell phones): "I'm probably one of five people in New York who doesn't own a cell phone. I'm a cell phone hater, not a congratulator."

(Answering why none of her works are on the syllabus): "You can look me up on Google!"

In true Bwog style, we've read all of the 400+ comments (though it might be 500 by the time we post this) so you don't have to.

Regarding the violence that erupted:

Posted by i can't believe this: [#144] [reply]

I'm actually shocked by the ignorance and arrogance displayed by so many of the posts on this thread. For all the complaints I've heard about how Columbia is this bastion of liberalism, I find most people here to be overwhelmingly conservative! It was a protest, people. The whole point of a protest is to cause a disrupton. Protests shouldn't just be grudgingly allowed in our society and our university, or penned in some "free speech area", they should be actively encouraged. Why aren't there more protests, more disruptions? I count protest a viable, valuable form of public debate...

And in reply:

Posted by mike: [#156] [reply]

I also protest violence against another human beings, immigrant or not, but I do not do so using violence.

By using violence, mob tactics, and overbearance, you have lowered yourselves to the level of these "minutemen," these fools who like to dress up in army gear and play "Mission Impossible" with people's lives.

One thing you have gained from this protest, at least, is one more columbia student disgusted with the so called "liberals" who cannot tolerate opinions other than their own.

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Posted by daydreamer : [3] [reply]

Does anyone else ever fantasize about how cool it would be to have an "Econ Dept. Rumble Royale"?

Think about it for a second.

So Sachs could be giving a lecture in the big room in IAB, minding his own business, throwing down some Solow-Swan, when suddenly...

The lights go dark.