All hail the geniuses!

This is an interesting story from today's New York Times about professors and e-mail.

(Disclaimer: this blog post applies to professors in general, not any particular faculty member at this fine institution. All professors here are brilliant legal scholars and I'm lucky to get to be in their presence on a daily basis).

Apparently - and this will shock you - most professors don't like when students e-mail them. They particularly dislike it if the students dare to criticize or complain! (I don't blame them for being annoyed when students e-mail to ask if they should buy a binder or because they missed class because they were hungover. Obviously students like that need a lesson in how to function in the real world).

But the gist of the e-mail is disturbing. I mean God forbid professors should interact with students and address students' concerns and woe to the student who dares not to defer to the mighty professor, simply because the professor is a professor. It's especially hard to understand why they hate e-mail when they are tenured profs who walk out of class immediately after saying the last word without giving students time to get to the front of the room and ask questions and then never spend any time in their office because their office is cluttered with books and they have tenure anyway so they're not accountable to anyone for anything...