<p>See this video:</p>
<p>Quick</a> Takes: November 17, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1033673-out-control-cornell-instructor.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1033673-out-control-cornell-instructor.html</a></p>
<p>Whole thing is way overblown, IMO.</p>
<p>@monydad is it? </p>
<p>notice that the student holds the yawn until the professor pauses the lecture (by picking up the notes he dropped). </p>
<p>looked to me like an insecure professor trying to take the attention away from him.</p>
<p>Totally overblown. Probably would never have surfaced if someone hadn’t made a remix that was posted on Campus Basement. That was over a month ago. </p>
<p>We can’t hear it on the video, but apparently the yawns were intentionally very loud & annoying.</p>
<p>a yawn is like a sneeze…</p>
<p>natural function. some people are just loud yawners just like some are loud sneezers…</p>
<p>A truly natural yawn is like that, though like a sneeze people with courtesy will attempt to minimize its intrusiveness.</p>
<p>A phony, exaggerated ‘I’m bored’ yawn is not a natural function. It is meant as commentary and as a distraction, it is a public statement of overt disrespect.</p>
<p>Either can be a distraction.</p>
<p>I did not have the impression that this was in reaction to a one-shot, natural yawn.</p>
<p>the professor seems very stuck-up. it’s not even just about the yawn. did you watch the beginning of the video where he talks about telegrams or something? he sounded very sarcastic and not in a good way either. he also called a student a loser. he also contradicts himself. he says that that guy is the only person who yawns, then during an interview, he says that everyone–including him–yawns, but that guy fake yawned. and did you hear the end of the video? he wanted people to tattle on him–anonymously LMAO. also, in the interview, he was like ‘i’m willing to forget all of this because he’s stopped making noise…’ so basically, you did nothing wrong eh? and he actually probably thinks he made the right move by saying that the yawning has stopped.</p>
<p>this guy sucks period. i don’t care whether this is a first time yawn or not.</p>
<p>i’ve heard top students yawn like that in several classes…</p>
<p>cornell students are TIRED! be lucky they even show up to lecture…</p>
<p>I was in that class when it happened - in fact, I was in the section he was yelling at! I was so freaked out but then after it was hilarious. I didn’t hear the yawn though so I had no idea what was going on.
All I can say is it was very funny but the whole thing has gotten a little crazy.</p>
<p>@ above. i couldn’t even really hear the yawn in the youtube video. i can’t even hear anyone else’s voice. all i hear is him shouting. that’s literally all i hear.</p>
<p>tell me most cornell professors aren’t like this??</p>
<p>^haha nope don’t worry - i love most of my profs!
talbert’s not that bad…a little quirky but nice
some of my other teachers have referenced the outburst and i know the kid who made the remix so it’s kinda become a joke within the school but I think it’s gone too far now that it has made it outside the cornell community</p>
<p>good to hear <3</p>
<p>if i get accepted i’ll be happy to come</p>
<p>wow i saw that…</p>
<p>My god, please tell me that Cornell profs are not like that lol. I am quite shocked by his outburst</p>
<p>" i couldn’t even really hear the yawn in the youtube video."
I don’t know why you can’t, I can hear it, and I also hear people giggling about the yawn immediately after it, before the prof. responds.</p>
<p>"My god, please tell me that Cornell profs are not like that "
Saying all profs are like [insert trait] is like saying all 13,000 undergrads there are like [insert trait].</p>
<p>It’s only that professor.</p>
<p>I’m a very loud sneezer lol, hope the music professors there aren’t against that xD</p>
<p>If you “fake sneeze” loudly and repeatedly, in multiple lectures, followed by giggles from the audience about it, maybe the music professors will be against it. Professors who care will not want their classrooms, or themselves, being turned into a forum for some sort of a joke, with the class being disrupted. How they go about obtaining the degree of decorum they desire, or the extent to which they care, will vary. This is no different at Cornell than elsewhere. </p>
<p>I think many of us can agree that this particular response, taken in entirety, was somewhat less than ideal, though on the other hand evidently it was successful in stopping the offending conduct.</p>
<p>no one laughed at this yawn???</p>
<p>there may have been some uneasy giggles AFTER the professor asked who it was D:</p>
<p>I hear laughing/ giggling right after the yawn, before the prof speaks.
The yawn is at 10 seconds in, there is audience giggling from then through 12 seconds in, then the prof responds with “Who just did that”. It is completely clearly audible, this is not ambiguous.</p>