Tuesday, March 17, 2009

1. Denis Rancourt article
A strange prof (physics!) from the University of Ottawa who may be fired for his strange teaching methods and his decision to give all of his students A's. He's an anarchist, environmental studies, physics prof.

His faculty website.
Wikipedia article.

Rancourt describes his approach of "academic squatting" in which he took an existing course and changed the curriculum, using student input, without the approval of the university. In the fall of 2005 Rancourt squatted a first year course entitled Physics and Environment (PHY 1703).

Following the conclusion of PHY 1703 at the end of 2005, Rancourt and student supporters campaigned to have the university approve a new Science faculty course that would be officially advertised as a pass/fail, student-directed course.
This was, it seems, an Activism Course.

In reference to the 'climate change myth', and specifically Al Gore's film, Denis, on one of his blogs, writes:
One cannot control a monster by asking it not to shit as much. The monster is the problem, not the fact that it shits, no matter what colour the shit is.




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