If he is truly dedicated, he must take the next logical step: prison as performance art.
I'm not familiar with MIT's policies, but I'm guessing that even tenure wouldn't have protected him in this case.
He entered the Manhattan bank on New Year's Eve around 2 p.m., wielding a camcorder and politely handed the teller a note demanding a donation for his church, according to court documents
This bank robbing lark is easier than I though.
According to things I've heard, bank tellers are trained to give people whatever they ask for at the slightest threat. They just want them out of the bank and then let the police get them later.
A friend of mine took a filmmaking class with this guy at Cornell. He said the guy was always giving them tips on how to film people without them knowing it.
It sounds like the plot of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thought_Gang
it's hard to tell if the professor is a pompous ass or actually coming apart at the seams
Or both!
5: There was a case in NJ a few years back where a suburban dad fell behind on his mortgage and took to robbing banks. Never owned a gun -- just pushed politely worded notes in front of the tellers. IIRC, he was extremely successful and caught in some flukey way.
Here's something I just learned via the @sweden Twitter feed. Swedish has a word for "cry, cry, masturbate, cry":
gråtrunka
https://twitter.com/sweden/status/554666667666841600
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gr%C3%A5trunka
I haven't been able to find any mention of this in the archives.
3: No tenure, just a lecturer. "Professor" in the headline isn't really right...
All you need for a robbery is a girl and a gun.
According to Arthur Danto, his actions are the wrong ontological sort to be actual robberies.
No tenure, just a lecturer. "Professor" in the headline isn't really right...
Pitch for an article in Inside Higher Education: "Desperate adjuncts turn to bank robbery".
(Extrapolating from this discussion.)
What is the deal with Boston-area professors lately?
Sexual frustration leads to funny things.
18: He should write a blog post about how feminism made him do it.
1: Yeah. This looks like an exacerbated case of "smartest person in the room" syndrome.
Pitch for an article in Inside Higher Education: "Desperate adjuncts turn to bank robbery".
Awesome. Especially since any article on the plight of adjunct faculty is bound to elicit a no-sympathy-for-the-underpaid comment which begins, "Look, nobody puts a gun to anyone's head."
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Bleg for DCites: is getting from Dupont Circle to Glen Echo Park on a winter Sunday afternoon likely to be an easy drive, an icy hell, easier by transit, what?
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23: Very unlikely to be an icy hell, most likely an easy drive, possibly transit hell depending on the exact date. For transit, you'd be taking the Red Line, which has been undergoing major repairs over weekends, then a bus. Most weekends, some stations are closed entirely for repairs, although the stretch you'd be on might be fine. Also, trains are every 15 min or so on weekends, buses even less frequent. I'd probably drive if I had the option.
They should use metric for that stuff. It's a 1 millihertz train.
23, 25: yeah, you'd basically just be going straight up Mass. Ave., which is central enough that it'll be treated/plowed, and you won't have rush hour issues on a Sunday.