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Tom Ronca - 2007-06-18 14:57:12
What I like about that site you ran across, is that Prof. Justus Doenecke is rated as 'hot'; the fact that someone would regard him so gives hope to the rest of us males...
Also, I have googled someone "in broad daylight" as well -- but only in the comfort and privacy of my own home.
I mean really -- there is such a thing as propriety, you know.
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Paula - 2007-06-18 15:15:34
Similarly, someone refers to art professor Cris Hassold as "babelicious." Now, I can't picture CH, but she was definitely teaching at NC when I was there, so we must be talking about a woman in her late 40s at the youngest. So that's kinda nice, too. Unless the commenter was kidding.
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grigorss - 2007-06-18 16:12:32
Yes -- I think I can truthfully say this about our Alma Mater:
Learned Professors -- Yes!
Dedicated Professors -- Many!
"hot" professors -- Uhh... well...
two out of three... not so shabby.
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Bob - 2007-06-18 16:31:02
Even if a young commentator was kidding, I'd say it's still nice. This sort of thing has confronted me lately, cuz of skateboarding. When a spectacularly built (reminds me of Laila Ali... both have tiger legs) eighteen year old Italian girl, who believes strongly that people should be nice to one another (and is almost a bit of a Nazi about it, in an unstrident way) told her seated friend, after we'd just finished skating, and me and those two were the only ones in the park, and I was walking towards them to leave, "Here's how you get a boy's attention: Drop your cellphone..." [whereupon she tosses her keys on the deck ahead of me and bends over in her female friend's face]. But what one oughtta remember in such situations is that youngsters, if they genuinely want something, can be quite blunt, so, if they're not LITERALLY asking for it, just assume that they're kind of "tipping their hat", in a friendly way, and don't assume they want anything more from you than a metaphorical tip of your hat at some point. My reaction was to put on my best doidy-doi voice and say "Hey, don't do that to her... she's a girl!" Which cracked her friend up, because she knew damn well her friend wasn't trying to make an impression on her. I just assume, in case they are relying on me to, that they don't exactly want me, they just want me to be impressed. New College profs, on the other hand, seeing themselves described as "hot", might take it entirely too seriously... since there was indeed no fool like an old fool at New College.
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Paula - 2007-06-18 16:51:23
I'm fairly susceptible to teacher-crushes and I don't remember having any at New College.
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2fs - 2007-06-18 21:20:24
Well, judging from the "hot" ratings of folks in my department (and not including me - hrmmph!), it seems pretty arbitrary. I mean, some of the "hot"-rated folks are...probably not by most standards. Then again, there's no credibility to the system, very few rankings...so, all but worthless.
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Greg - 2007-06-19 12:43:37
I'm sad to say I never had a teacher I thought was hot, not at any point during my school years. Had quite a few though that really blew me away with intelligence, compassion, wit, style... Hot is in the eye of the beholder, someone told me recently.
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Paula - 2007-06-19 13:05:14
Interestingly, one of my favorite bloggers wrote about this very phenomenon.
This guy is seriously cool.
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Bina - 2007-06-19 15:20:20
When I was in high school everyone thought I was having an affair with my writing teacher. That was truly an odd point in my life. I was all of fifteen, he was thirty-eight, happily married and expecting a baby. To even think of a teacher as "hot" seemed sacriligious to me back then, still does now. Although now that I'm a professor, I can tell when a student thinks I'm hot - and it's not fun.
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Paula - 2007-06-19 16:30:16
If I had a dollar for every teacher I've had a crush on in my life...I'd be able to pay back my student loans. Clearly, I have issues.
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