<p>please list the professors that WE SHOULD AVOID AT ALL COSTS</p>
<p>Hopefully Slipper or Xan will come on to help you with this. There is a site on Dartmouth where you can log in and read ratings on classes and professors written by Dartmouth students.</p>
<p>One review:</p>
<p>And the best:</p>
<p>Those lists are much more politically focused than anything else. Personally I found Garrod and Edsforth to be the best professors I had at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Just asked D.</p>
<p>The link is </p>
<p><a href="http://sa.dartmouth.edu/guide/%5B/url%5D">http://sa.dartmouth.edu/guide/</a></p>
<p>You may not be able to use it yet. You log in using the same name and password as your blitz</p>
<p>You can search by course or by professor</p>
<p>I can't vouch for the accuracy of this site, but it does offer some more opinions:</p>
<p>Edsforth is crazy. At one point during his freshman seminar two years ago, he was lying down spread-eagle on the floor yelling, "The corporations are trampling you! The corporations are trampling you!"</p>
<p>He is also awesome in terms of leading class discussion. He is a Professor I will never forget, he inspires and thinks outside the box. I absolutely recommend him.</p>
<p>wow, edsforth? I had him this past term, he was alright at leading small class discussions but when it came to lecture he was disorganized, long winded, boring, and digressed often. I struggled to follow his lectures as he inspired little interest. Although I will admit that he was incredibly passionate about the topic... I'd say even overly passionate.</p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend edsforth, but I think all you '09s should take this as proof that no teacher is liked by 100% of the students you just need to avoid those that are 100% disliked and feel your way through the rest.</p>
<p>To Slipper or Dartmyth (or anyone else) which part of th following rings true or false:</p>
<p>Ronald Edsforth
MALS</p>
<p>Professor Edsforth ranks amongst Dartmouths most notorious profesors. Though hes been here upwards of a decade, hes failed to secure tenure. Its little wonder why, really, considering that Edsforths particular brand of scholarship is light on disinterested inquiry but heavy on heavy rhetoric worthy of the Daily Worker. Students misfortunate enough to enroll in his War and Peace class last spring learned little about war; some about the evils of American car companies (seriously); much about about castle-in-the-sky theories for world government.</p>
<p>Andrew Garrod
Education</p>
<p>Many unsuspecting freshmen choose Garrods Education 20 course because it is hailed in certain circles as the best class at Dartmouth. Others stumble into the class expecting an easy A for mastering Horton Hears a Who. You will, alas, be seriously disappointed if you anticipate either. All assignments are graded by upper-class education minors and required to be endlessly re-written with little explanation. Garrod himself does not apologize for his political biases and is wont to show them, presenting as undisputed fact arguments for his pet liberal causes.</p>
<p>can't comment on the Garrod paragraph but I was enrolled in edsforth war and peace class this spring.</p>
<p>while I don't remember learning about the evils of american car companies (I could have missed it as I struggled to pay attention) the reference to his theories about world government is probably slightly exagerated but he is extremely liberal and he makes no effort to hide his bias. In fact, I had thought that I was very liberal but some of the things he was saying I found to be ridiculously impractical. Things like "Humans are innately peaceful and if we just learn to love one another war will go away." (of course not verbatim and edited to fit my purpose in bashing his extreme leftist leanings but more or less on the mark) Things that when heard over and over either make you throw up or go join the conservatives. </p>
<p>Where did you find these? from The Dartmouth Review? I wouldn't be surprised then they'd hate him with a passion and do everything they could to get him fired. He's not worth firing, as you can see some students love him, but I didn't like him much.</p>
<p>Don't put stock in those stupid Dartmouth Review profiles. If you notice, they don't actually talk about the quality of the teachers, just what they don't like about their political stances. And according to the Review, anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan is a Communist. Once you have your college email, you're better off going to sa.dartmouth.edu and looking for student reviews of classes that you are interested in.</p>
<p>Edsforth is AWFUL!!! I had him freshman winter. The man is insane. He hated me after I disagreed with his theory that Ronald Reagan was actually a liberal.</p>
<p>Which departments are you interested in?</p>