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To: From many - one.; general_re

Just a few people now and then butting in asking about evolution or religion in math class. .A bit disruptive but no more so than the anti-Vietnam-War groups did when I was in grad school. I would just point out that a math class was not the place for such discussions. I think these guys were just disruptive in general re everything.

Much disruption consisted in asking the same question over and over (different questions, some even about mathematics.)


569 posted on 09/20/2005 3:44:54 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
I think these guys were just disruptive in general re everything.

Actually, I come from a long line of anti-disruptors. My father once related how he accidentally thwarted a plot to end the Vietnam War by blowing up the library at Stony Brook. Hopefully it was merely a coincidence that, a few years later, what was to become his office at the University of Wisconsin was heavily damaged a few weeks before he arrived, when someone else tried to blow up the Army Math building. Or maybe it wasn't a coincidence, and being around various math departments while he was there was a particularly hazardous enterprise for some reason.

576 posted on 09/20/2005 4:01:37 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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