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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Confident happy professors: First name or doctor or professor, as long as you're polite, it's okay.

Insecure nobodies with lurking mental disorders: CALL ME PROFESSOR OR DOCTOR, PERIOD![/quote]

False dichotomy.

Confident, secure professors who are in a setting with standard professional norms:

Recognize that it is not "polite" in this setting for undergrads to start interactions with professors in an excessively casual way. Either calmly set them straight in private, or raise an eyebrow and make note of the lack of professionalism.

PP, you (and/or some person(s?) who are posting in agreement? still not convinced) seem wedded to declaring that either there is bootlicking or everything goes, either people are casual about address or sniveling cowards, either you pay a lot of money and get to act however you want or you pay little and are forced into docile servitude, etc.

Why does your world have no range whatsoever? Is it that you don't see it, or are you incapable of anything but hyperbole?[/quote]

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