Bobby is my favorite SCM prof. I also have Montabon this semester and he seems like a good guy as he definitely likes to have fun.
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Bobby is my favorite SCM prof. I also have Montabon this semester and he seems like a good guy as he definitely likes to have fun.
Mansbach was OK (his book wasn't so great), not as good as the late Don Boles. I also had a guy named Todd Sandler who has long since moved on to USC (I believe). Steffen Schmidt was fun as well. Also Richard Barnes for Physics 222 and Tom TenHoeve (sp?) and Roy Adams in the economics department.
I know he never shows up on these lists, but what about Master Pak? He's been there forever, knows his subject, and teaches about life. I'm sure he's helped a ton of students in his day.
Great thread. As someone already noted Dr. Pate was a great teacher. He had a way of teaching class that made it seem like you accomplished nothing. Then he would hand out homework and all sudden you put together his lecture. It was awesome.
I also really liked Dr. Bullen. He left ISU at the same time as I did and for our final he took us all to Peoples. As things were winding down and there were only like five us left. He gave a girl $100 before he left and told her to keep buying drinks. Great professor. Really explained things well. I know when he left he was going to be a professional expert witness. He probably was pretty awesome at getting jurys to understand technical aspects of trials.
I also really liked Dr. Bullen. He left ISU at the same time as I did and for our final he took us all to Peoples. As things were winding down and there were only like five us left. He gave a girl $100 before he left and told her to keep buying drinks. Great professor. Really explained things well. I know when he left he was going to be a professional expert witness. He probably was pretty awesome at getting jurys to understand technical aspects of trials.
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Mansbach is a total jerk, and a shady character, too. It doesn't get talked about much, but the only reason he's at Iowa State is because his previous university (Rutgers) canned him for pimping students (without their knowledge or consent) to do research work for a contract he had with the CIA.
CIA at Rutgers University
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FTW! Took his Sports and Public Policy class last year.....Most fun and insightful class
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I wish that were a course offering when I was there. Did he talk about how stupid the coaches' poll is? Coaches Play Favorites in Poll Used for BCS Rankings, Research Suggests - Real Time Economics - WSJ
Sadly, I don't think he's at ISU any longer, per a Google search I just did.
Never had him, but remember meeting with him about my club. I remember he was semi intense...
I think he had two total sides. A lot of people think he was a jerk because he just said whatever he wanted, but I learned as much from him as almost any other professor.
However, I went to his office hours quite a bit and emailed back and forth with him.. and almost did an independent study with him. He was completely different in those than in class. In class he was almost "in your face" but in office hours, he was pretty calm and smiling a lot.
It might have been because I told him my mom's side is from NYC and found a lot of common ground with him, but the guy is ridiculously smart. Almost too smart for his own good. We formed a good relationship and I asked him why the **** he came to ISU from Rutgers.
Listen, Rutgers never fired him and the **** he did happens all the time, believe it or not. Any article you find about his CIA + papers thing says they never fired him. He continued with his job for a good 5 more years there. The reason he came to ISU he says is because ISU was looking for a new chair of the Poly Sci department. They called him, while he was chair of the Rutgers one and he said he thought about it for awhile, and took it. As much **** as he gives Iowa, he told me he actually loves Iowa which is why he's still there.
I think a lot of people aren't used to his style, but I found him a complete breath of fresh air and if you get to know him, he's a cool guy. Hell, he even tried to get me to meet his daughter, but I was graduating like three days later..
Anne Marie Butler (Phil 201) really enjoyed going to her class for my freshman humanities class
Peggy Boylan (EM 274, statics) GREAT teacher and very approachable
Not a prof, but my academic advisor, Kevin Osgerby, is a really great guy. I always enjoy going in and talking to him
Peggy Boylan (EM 274, statics) GREAT teacher and very approachable
Not a prof, but my academic advisor, Kevin Osgerby, is a really great guy. I always enjoy going in and talking to him
Had both of them. I thought Doolittle sucked and I learned way more from my Kenyan recitation instructor who barely knew english than her. Italian Meteorology..Cinzia Cervato? She was pretty cool and relaxed. She 25% resembles what my mom looks like today though so uhh yeah. That was semi weird
Seeing some of these names again kinda turns back the clock. Idk if Jack Blanshan is still teaching, but I liked him alot. Also, Mark Power was good and I learned alot from Gary Coppenhaver the one class I had him for.
No, because it wasn't 'a national on going story" as it is now...Some of the things we did talk about was, Billy Beane's Moneyball, Is the NCAA a monopoly, the coaching styles of Bobby Knight vs. Coach K, is a professional sports franchise a viable option for cities, professional sports market size in respect to how meaningful is winning in the long run....
I had him for one class and wish I would have paid attention and put in more effort because I would have learned a lot. I think it was international politics or something like that.
The best I ever had was Northway. One of the smartest and most down to earth guys at ISU and an outstanding storyteller. I took three classes with him. The Matrix project he does is probably the most worthwhile and interesting thing I did in college.
