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Students and professors comment on the firing of an NYU organic chemistry professor because of the difficulty of his exams
Hotair ^ | 10/30/2022 | John Sexton

Posted on 10/30/2022 8:30:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/30/2022 8:30:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The snowflakes are falling so gently.


2 posted on 10/30/2022 8:32:56 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Yeah... Because “Organic Chemistry” should be as easy as Gender Fluid Studies.


3 posted on 10/30/2022 8:32:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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Scary and completely wrong.

The best chem and bio-chem profs I had as an undergrad were the toughest graders. We students knew that we had to know it all, and we gave it the extra measure (and really, really learned chem!)

4 posted on 10/30/2022 8:35:25 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind

Back in the early 1990s students at the University of Arizona developed a list of people one could not discriminate.
The list included people of color, gay, lesbians, bisexual,
Native Americans etc. One group added to the was “the academically disinclined.”


5 posted on 10/30/2022 8:36:31 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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> students stopped wanting to be educated and became buyers of credentials.

Bingo!


6 posted on 10/30/2022 8:39:44 PM PDT by glorgau
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Too many colleges seem to be conducting themselves as though they were restaurants, not schools of higher learning.
They act like restaurants, eager to tailor and modify any course on the menu (in the curriculum) that the student is not 1000% at ease with. “Have it your way!” said the Dean.


7 posted on 10/30/2022 8:42:28 PM PDT by lee martell
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In 10 years or so, the country will find out why organic chemistry is hard..There will be thousands of “affirmative action” doctors of all genders and colors who will proceed to slaughter their patients....I for one, never thought I would say this, but I am soooo glad I’m old....When the shock and fury comes,Hopefully I’ll be dead.....


8 posted on 10/30/2022 8:45:36 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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O-chem has always been the undergrad class that weeded out those who didn’t belong in science and medicine. With dumbed down admission standards for “under privileged” students, this is bound to happen.


9 posted on 10/30/2022 8:59:18 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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A genius prof at our nearby university first became a veterinarian, then went back to med school and became an MD. In later years he was brilliant tough and fair teaching anatomy and physiology at university. He was also an extreme outdoor adventurer. Students loved him.

A young coed was falling behind, so she slandered the prof and the school fired him without an investigation.

He killed himself.


10 posted on 10/30/2022 9:07:45 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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is it harder than 4 years ago???


11 posted on 10/30/2022 9:12:41 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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I am a pharmacist, now retired. Inorganic chem, Organic chem, and Bio chem got rid of the students that would not be able to get through professional pharmacy school. The chem department really hated being the gateway to pharmacy school. Those that made it past the gateway of chem, physics, and math had a very high graduation rate in pharmacy school. My graduating class only lost 3. Two were for personal reasons. The third was actually very talented and decided to switch his major to toxicology which is a tough major. He did well.


12 posted on 10/30/2022 9:15:25 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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If his class truly is a weed-out class (as organic chemistry classes often are), he gets no sympathy from me.


13 posted on 10/30/2022 9:17:36 PM PDT by dangus
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It’s hard to know who is right here. Organic chem is certainly one of the more difficult courses for those not naturally inclined to chemistry. It’s possible that the tests were unreasonably hard or that the students were lazy idiots who didn’t put in enough effort. My money is on the students being snowflakes.


14 posted on 10/30/2022 9:19:25 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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I forgot to add. Chem is chem and it must be understood to be competent. It can be tough. It is not beyond the intelligence of a student with just a normal IQ. If you do not study a lot you flunk, even if you are of high intelligence.


15 posted on 10/30/2022 9:24:29 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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I forgot to add. Chem is chem and it must be understood to be competent. It can be tough. It is not beyond the intelligence of a student with just a normal IQ. If you do not study a lot you flunk, even if you are of high intelligence.

For those that took Organic Chem in that huge book by Morrison and Boyd, you all know the pain in that book. It still sits on my bookshelf. I considered taking it to my shooting range once but decided against such. He became once an adversary and now an old friend.


16 posted on 10/30/2022 9:29:47 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Hambone 1934

Well said


17 posted on 10/30/2022 9:44:46 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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Every major has weed out courses and profs

If you can’t hack it go be a kindergarten teacher


18 posted on 10/30/2022 9:47:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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Just wait until the medical doctors of tomorrow give up in the middle of complex surgeries because they are too hard and they’re just not feeling it today.


19 posted on 10/30/2022 9:49:55 PM PDT by jz638
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20 posted on 10/30/2022 9:50:24 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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