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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He should probably see his primary care physician for an evaluation.[/quote]

Exactly, this guy cannot be mentally well (and I am a professor myself).

One of his colleagues should have reported him long ago. (And kids to turn in anonymous evals each semester you know).

It would be hard for someone this mentally unstable to hide in plain sight (unless the pandemic has sent him over the edge.)[/quote]

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He's 74--He's likely had something mildly going on that just being a longstanding quirky professor might have masked. With age comes loosening of inhibitions. He's likely lucid in his area of expertise.  Probably has long been known as having ascerbic wit etc.  Ferris State is in an isolated area of Michigan and he's spent his whole career there--been a professor since before I graduated from high school and I'm now a full professor myself!  
Pandemic likely exacerbated it so now it's out in the wide open.  I think colleagues need to look out for their professors over age 70 and some sort of extra review process is needed.  Some are the best educators out there, with such knowledge and perspective so I wouldn't want to have a forced retirement age, but it's sad if no one counsels them out and they damage their lifetime reputation.[/quote]

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