Professors and Their Allowances

I watched this YouTube video the other day (saw it on Gizmodo)

http://gizmodo.com/5478032/dont-bring-laptops-to-class-or-else

It brought me back to my university days when professors would go on and on about what was and was not allowed in their classes.

Wait a minute -- aren’t they getting PAID to teach people?

So the students aren’t paying attention to your lecture -- that is up to them. They are a customer spending their money there. As long as they are not disturbing other customers let people do what they want.

I remember throughout my schooling all of the various things that were demanded:
- must be computer printed
- must be hand written
- must be on line paper
- cannot be on yellow paper
- must be 1.5 spaced
- must be double spaced
- templates indicating the margin
- cannot chew gum in class
- cannot drink beverages in class

There were so many different rules in some cases one could lose track of the actual assignment in an effort to keep the rules in check.