Posted on 01/18/2018 9:39:23 AM PST by DFG
Students attending a lecture at Tarrant County College were so frightened by their professor's behavior during a recent class that they had to leave the room.
When TCC Adjunct Professor Daniel Mashburn walked into his Astronomy class Tuesday night, several students were alarmed by his behavior. Some thought it was a joke while others called police.
Student April McLeod says her teacher got to class about 20 minutes late and turned off the lights and was wearing a ball cap, a toboggan, a scarf over his face and gloves. She says Mashburn never took any of it off even when police questioned him after responding to calls from students.
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Seeing that word always makes me think of baklava. Now I need to go to the Greek bakery!
Todd (reporter): Well here in America, we tend to usually show our face when we are a professor at a college. That’s typically the standard.
Mashburn: Oh, yes. But I do not answer to your standard. I am not a Christian. I am not a Jew. I’m a Muslim.
Mashburn repeatedly deflected questions and several times said his teaching of astronomy goes hand in hand with Islam.
Todd: When you interviewed with Tarrant County College to get this job, did you explain to them your teaching philosophy?
Mashburn: I keep it secret. I keep it safe. I do my best, but I am tired of hiding in the shadows. I am tired of fearing their law. I fear Allah.
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If I were a student in his class, I would NOT be returning.
It is what they call a ski cap in Tx
Mashburn: I keep it secret. I keep it safe. I do my best, but I am tired of hiding in the shadows. I am tired of fearing their law. I fear Allah.
Taqiyya.
years ago I was taking a English class and I had a teacher show up on the first day and the person acted like it was group therapy...I was older then the other students all of them being 18 and 19. I was 30. so none of theses kids even questioned what he was doing. I quickly realized he was freshly out of a psychiatric ward and let him do his group therapy and then quickly informed the administration that there professor was not ready to teach yet....he had taught for years and had recently had a psychotic break...The school desperate for a replacement teacher after the one they had hired to teach his class canceled at the last Minuit had asked him to come back early from a sabbatical. he had kept secret his hospitalization and had come back to teach because he did not know how to say no. when they called the house and he answered the phone.
The scary part was that was *all* he was wearing!
A toboggan?
That’s gotta be a typo.
Otherwise - the professor of astronomy is described as somebody who is prepping for a little bit of night sky observation.
He’s dressed warm because it is cold out and the skies are very clear in the winter time, and the lights are low because he doesn’t want to blow his night vision. Some people wear red glasses or goggles so that when they step outside at night they still have a better sense of night vision then do those who go in from a lighted room.
If it was indeed a toboggan perhaps he was using it to transfer his telescope out to a site nearby and set it up so it could become acclimatize to the outside temperatures.
I don’t see that this is anything other than that.
Did I hear him say that he is a Muslim and he is tired of hiding in the shadows?
Oklahoma State in the mid-eighties may have inspired the tape recorder scene in Real Genius.
That local news video of the prof makes it look like he is having some sort of schizophrenic episode. A student said at one point, he was talking to the blackboard! Wow.
I watched the video. Not sure if crazy with Muslim fixation, or just Muslim. Glad the kids left. He needs to be locked up, lest or gets worse.
Summer term 1982 my Calculus 2 professor (back then the actual professors had to teach anything higher than Calc 1) walked in wearing tan cargo shorts, a "wife beater" t-shirt, and sandals. He turned his back to us and started writing on the chalkboard, talking in an Indian accent that we could not understand, and never once during the whole hour took a question or looked at us. I dropped his class and picked up another with a professor I already knew.
Seeing that word always makes me think of baklava. Now I need to go to the Greek bakery!
Weird enough he has a toboggan on his noggin. He’s also wearing greek pastries.
Let’s all thank Rick Perry for this one more time.
Let’s not and say we did....................
Frozen eyelashes?
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