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Video: Columbia University Professor Strips Down To Boxers, Waves Samurai Sword Around
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 18, 2013
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The award for Professor of the Fuckin' Year is pretty much a lock now that a Columbia teacher began one of his lectures by stripping down to his boxers, attacking a stuffed animal with a giant Samurai sword, and then curling into a fetal position as footage of 9/11, Nazi Germany, and North Korea was projected on a screen behind him. Oh, there was Ninja, too. Which doesn't really surprise us these days—for $43K a year, people expect a little razzle dazzle! The only thing missing was a pit bull on rollerskates chewing bacon pasties off a burlesque dancer's nipples. Here's video of the surreal scene:
After his performance or whatever, professor Emlyn Hughes explained to the students, "In order to learn Quantum Mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again. Nothing you've learned in your life up til now is in any way going to help prepare you for this... I've been tasked with the impossible challenge of teaching you Quantum Mechanics in one hour." Minus the five minutes he spent stripping and waving a sword around.
According to Bwog, which first published the video, "none of this was as offensive as the fact that he proceeded to display a Big Bang Theory clip in a 'Science' class." We reached out to both Professor Hughes and the university for comment, and we'll update when we hear back. Meanwhile, in an ironic twist, we're told that Gallagher's guest lecture at SUNY Purchase began with a long Powerpoint presentation on organic watermelon farming.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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