Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 28, 2015

Where did this professor come from? Well, he’s definitely for hands on learning. LOL

And a quick left hook applied creatively to the groin puts Zébo awash in…?

Idiot instructor and idiot cartoonist!

Okay, that looks like water boarding to me… Right along the lines of the ‘Nun and ruler’ teaching method.

“Pop Art”“Higher Learning At Lower Altitudes”“Just My Imagination”“Fear Of Learning”“An Exercise In Humility Humiliation”“Senseless And Insensitivity”“Pride And Pretense”“A Trick Question”“Creativi-Tease”or“Free Reign On Your Parade”

How in blue blazes did this man get hired to be a college art teacher anyway?

“Fräulein DeGroot – we haff vays to make you talk…” ^But this time, it’s the students who cry out: "I know nuthing… nuthiiiiing … (or on second thought, maybe it’s the teacher…..)

He seems like a fraud

Maybe that’s why Roger Waters thought he didn’t “need no…education….” (♫)

It’s apparent that few, if any, of the other commenters herein are creative.

This one needs a good follow up – otherwise it’s a wild pitch.

Luann is assaulted here by this Dim Wit…this is clearly abuse and not funny…hope she tells the school admin and police are called to hall this clown in…………

I’m not too sure that I like Luann’s adventures at PCC… And, on that note, I’m off to find the Wizard… ’Nite all! ;)-————————————————————————-“Science is organized knowledge.” (Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903).

The point could have even been made (and valid) by just saying creativity can be like a “balloon full of water”, without demonstrating it. Of course, though, the class would probably have to be awake for that…

He is a wimp… to pick on a young woman and humiliate her like that. If he pulled that stunt on Mr. Jock he may have ended up swinging by his pretentious ascot from a tree outside his classroom.

Greg Evans really can be an idiot. The caricatures this week are bad even for a newspaper cartoon strip.

I’m thinking this guy has tenure, cause there’s no way he’d even think about doing this otherwise…

I’m starting to think that Luann jumped the shark on Graduation Day.

water balloon on head… teacher gets fist on nose.

If a real teacher did something like this is they’ be fired, and probably sued. Community colleges generally just hire adjuncts on contract without benefits. There’s no tenure. All I can figure is that this is some sort of dig at community colleges – like they hire people out of the psych ward to teach. The stereotype out of the 1950s is really strange as well. How old can this guy be? Can you even buy an ascot or a smoking jacket now days? You’d have to go to a costume rental place.

Alas, I had a couple of profs like this at UCLA. One Sociology prof had us knock on unlocked doors while inside rooms to see if someone outside might open them. What the heck that was supposed to prove or demonstrate?

Luann’s face in the second panel looks like that Asian gal in the dorm, can’t remember her name.

Geez… just because one pays for a college education doesn’t mean instructors are allowed to abuse! What a jerk!

Luann just got college paid for free. Sue. Also, the instructor is looking at assault and harassment.

Just what sort of loony tunes world does this writer live in?

I am going out on a limb an say next the hunk in the far back comes up an helps Luan to dry off .yep an causing all kinds of young folk commotion .

now they’re both all wet

Too weird for CC, this guy. At least if Luann majors in creative arts, it will provide Frank the opportunity to be an unsupportive jerk again! “You’re going to live with us forever, aren’t you?” I would like to see Luann rebel against this attitude. It would be loads more interesting.

This is really poor. Greg Evans needs to wrap this up by the end of the week and move onto something else. Maybe going back to Luann and Tiffany working at their job with the little kids is more nearly in his comfort zone than this experiment at depicting an annoying professor in junior college. He could even return to the Peru story and tell us what really happened in the parts that Gunther didn’t explain yet. This week, though, has been something that needs to be dropped and abandoned. (Evans is good at doing that with ideas that didn’t pan out, like the food truck.)

Also: the shadows are slowly backing out of the room, perhaps to drop the class, and Luann remains bereft of college friends! That is not a good sign.

in all fairness to the Colonel, that was a POW camp, not a concentration camp.

TJ attends the class much longer than necessary, not because he needs to be a student but rather for revenge. The idea? Scheme ludicrous, convoluted traps. Then the proff will quit, for no apparent reason. Who wouldn’t just adore THAT? It’s a story that makes no sense, so it’s just flawless!

I would drop that class faster than the professor could say the word, “creativity” again.

Well THAT’S What YOU get for Going to “Com-munity College” Lu.

Awwwww, Buck Up. At Least the Balloon WASN’T Filled With Hot COFFEE….,

Lawsuit! Lawsuit!

Lawsuit? Everyone calling for a lawsuit is what is wrong with this country and why we have so many ambulance chasing lawyers out there (and in part why prices of everything keep going up).-She should report it and move on. Sometimes odd things happen, and I don’t see where she deserves any kind of huge settlement over a little water that messed up her hair and makeup. This is the kind of thing she’ll make friends over and talk about for years, and he would deny it was intentional anyway.

A good smack upside the head would do wonders for that guys pompous attitude.

Deny it was intentional? Come on, he has a pin in his hand and there are witnesses. Yeah, she’ll probably move on, but this is a form of bullying, embarassment to the student, and not teaching anything related to ‘creativity’. Now if he was trying to get a real reaction from an actor to something unexpected, he should have said something along those lines and involved the whole class, not just one student.

I think he meant: “were filled with $100 dollar bills.” College professors should know about the subjunctive tense even if cartoonists don’t.

Yeah, he’d be on his arse right along now.

I love it when people write “trope.” I feel that I am in the presence of genius.

“They must have been desperate to have to resort to hiring this fool.”^Or alternatively, he could have been a product of “having to pull some strings as a favor for smoeone”. I could hear the Chancellor or some Dean repeating the refrain: “(cue sigh:) He’s family (or even an inlaw or a buddy or a friend of someone)… I promised (”such and such") that I’d help him out…"

He’d get a lesson on the art of the beat down.

Not the right time for that.

@ Trekman:

“HEY! Don’t be dissin’ on the Floyd!!” ^You ought to know I wouldn’t be dissin’ them! (8^D) – If you remember, Roger Waters had said that he based all the “Brick” parts on either people he knew from growing up (including the teacher that ridiculed him in front of the class) to his mother and also his dealing with his father’s death in the War… – I was saying it from his standpoint, that this teacher is much like the ones he spoke of as “picking on the kids”

Yep. That’s par for community college.

Effective teachers show, rather than tellI might like this guy after all!*This is a lesson no one in the class will forget— I was blessed to have several profs who taught with class demos, and I learned valuable life lessons. Far more so than in any note-taking lecture.

… and in case anyone missed it, this is a lesson on the subjective vs. the objective.

There used to be a Music Video show on PBS called “Colorsounds” that would teach grammar by identifying certain features in the lyrics as they flashed them on screen while the videos played. I remember when they played both the German version and the English of that Nena song. Could almost recite the German version, word for word! Good times, good times!

The head of the physics department at Auburn liked to teach an intro class because the student challenges forced him to practice explaining to those who demanded proof while bringing new insights.

Ohmigosh, LuAnn in a wet t-shirt contest!!!!

RB2…. Community Colleges have their place…. I agree with you on that. They CAN be used to transfer to a 4-year school…. but in a larger than I would like percentage of cases, students end up not getting courses to transfer as completely as they envision because they often are a) not paying attention to what they SPECIFICALLY need to take, or b) they get bad advising. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I do not think Greg is portraying community college as a horrible place at all. Zebo may be a bit over-the-top, but he is simply one professor. Greg is playing up the comedic potential of an over-the-top Zebo… and there ARE professors like him at most every college and university. They are the exception rather than the rule, but they do exist. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Greg has never portrayed that college (community or university) is a waste of time. Neither is a waste of time. But the biggest thing you need to remember is that for anyone at any school to get any sort of benefit out of it, the effort and work needs to be from within the person. Whether a trade school, community college, or university… it is the effort the person puts into attaining an education that is the important thing. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I am not pleased about the dousing that Luann is getting. But, trying to look ahead…. I am going to assume it is a relatively minor amount of water that was released, and that he may provide a towel for Luann, and that there may be a meaningful point he is really trying to make. I will also wait and see how this pans out.

Would you enjoy sitting through your classes in soaked clothes all day. This is a disgusting display of bullying.

Just passed from education to assault. This is a legal issue and the professor would be immediately suspended.

My brother does. Tenure doesn’t mean you don’t have to take on a share of the less inspiring tasks of a department. It just means you don’t have to go find another job…

Yes, in the real world, this is not only grounds for an assault charge, but also harassment. But this isn’t the real world. It’s an increasingly disappointing fantasy world, though…

This clown kidnapped the real teacher and has him tied up somewhere. I hope Luann slugs him or files charges.

Well, not nude but soaking wet.

Apparently, the direction this comic is headed now is to celebrate bullying. Gunther becomes a bully who wants to control his mother and keep her from having any life other than taking care of him, while barking at her that he’ll only enunciate a command once (or else?) And now we get a bullying so-called professor who pretends that dumping water on Luann has anything to do with creativity, so she gets to spend the day in wet clothes or return home and have to explain what happened to parents who probably won’t believe her.-I’m not a fan of bullies. Guess I’ll go read a comic that doesn’t celebrate them.

She’s in position for a brisky right jab to level the playing field.

Niiiiccce!

(“Hand”:) Now that’s a good one to learn from! That one is definitely catchy in 2 languages!!

Not so. In two colleges of my acquaintance, even full professors of English had to teach freshman composition.

How come this creative teacher did not do that to Jock?

Self-defense?

And there sits Luann with her fists at waist level…

Just found a nice version (and reasonable facsimile) here!

She needs to slap the taste out of his mouth!

That is not one bit funny.

I recently had a professional development class, in which half of us were given a “simulated psychosis”. We social sociene majors got the lesson & were amused by the horror of the rest of the class.

On the other hand, I got really p.o.’d in another professional development class in which I unwittingly was in the role of the client. Skipped the after-class beer!

Not one professor. We started off the week with a guy doing a lecture on the digital age who was complaining about people who took notes for their classes digitally. Zebo is bad professor #2 (unless you count the guy for the one class we saw Luann take last fall, in which case Zebo would be #3).

Actually, we’ve seen the 1st prof. before when classes began in Sept. He seems OK. I don’t think he was “complaining.” I think he was just genuinely shocked to discover that someone still takes hand written notes.

What I’m curious about, though, is what department offers that class??? Is it “General Studies” or the “math” dept, or business, or what? “Introduction to the digital age?” I could see that as an offering for senior citizens that didn’t grow up in it… but any college kid worth their salt would be able to put that prof. to shame…

Now she can get her hundred dollar bills… with the lawsuit.

Do any community college instructors qualify for the title, “professor?” Whatever, this guy should go back into the closet and take his weird outfit with him. I think he gives me the creeps.

And here I was complaining about the Gunther arc… this one is worse…" Let’s Lampoon College by creating the most extreme professor types", and show them doing things that would cause them to lose not only their tenure, but also their jobs and any future in academia… Come on Evans… are you running on empty after 20 years?

Let’s see where this is going.

I wish Knute were in the class.

Not in real life…

Look out for the banana peels on the floor kids!

I am truly not getting what teacher is saying…what creativity? Luann, drop his class. You’re wasting your time.

No – worries, the balloon was filled with ether which evaporates quickly. Doh!! Oops…….thunk!

Now make her eat a super-hot pepper and guzzle a beer really fast. Creative!

And this is why this individual teaches at a junior college.

I do not think Professor #1 was bad for suggesting paper and pencil was an acceptable form for note taking.

This might be the worst arc in the history of this comic strip. Enough already Greg.

“…I wonder if there’s a societal shift demonstrated in the reactions…” ^There’s a bit of that question “swimming about” in the midst of the pulled “GoDaddy” ads on the net originally slated for the SuperBowl along with a few other recent news events….

True, but later, Klink was transferred to Buchenwald by General Burkhalter after Klink parked his staff car in front of The Berghof and it blew up. Burkhalter felt that they could keep a closer watch on him there rather than him screwing up their operations on the Eastern Front.

I have the DVDs for HH. What was interesting about the show was that all of the regular German officers were, in fact, Jewish in real life. Werner Klemperer (Klink), John Banner (Schultz), Howard Caine (Maj. Hochstadter) and, of course, Leon Askin (Burkhalter). All of them accepted the roles with the intent on playing them as buffoons and idiots.

Of all the regular cast members, I believe only Robert Clary (LeBeau), an actual Holocaust survivor, is still alive.

It’s time to drop this class!

Klink ran a POW camp, BTW. Big difference from a concentration camp, just sayin.

I had my share of bad professors in college too.

Would people’s reactions be the same if the student receiving the “enlightenment” were Tiffany? (Be honest, now.)

As the late Marshall McLuhan once said, “Art is anything you can get away with”. And apparently this poser is trying to get away with a lot.

The SS Totenkopt or “Death Head” ran the Death Camps. Note the uniform Klink is wearing and Burkhalter too—the Luftwaffe, not the Schutzestaffle.

It was definitely a Luftwaffe POW camp. Major Hochstetter was SS (and part of the Gestapo sub org, apparently)…

Great Point, Dave! “Has slapstick and acceptable notions of slapstick been redefined by society?” It has the ring of a “TED” talk about it, doesn’t it? I will mull it over more as I drive home later this afternoon in my comfortably ratty old pick-up and indulge in a pipe or two.

Man! What has gotten into the group the past week or two? People seem a whole helluva lot more prone to being overly harsh with each other here in the comments. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I mean, there is really no value in being verbally nasty towards a fellow commenter…. even if you find their ideas tiresome, short-sighted, or even obnoxious. I sincerely believe that MOST folks commenting here try to put forth genuine ideas generated in them through their reading of “Luann”. Some of these ideas may be pretty damn far-fetched at times, I will agree. But…. I still find them interesting, and even when I disagree with a commenter, I gain insight by having heard their alternative perspective. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++So, I do appreciate everyone’s ideas…. just try to be a bit more kind to each other.

(“Rooted:”) Branching out, are we? – I also hear that when the phone app is on, you can count the number of rings when someone calls….

>"The SS Totenkopt or “Death Head” ran the Death Camps. Note the uniform Klink is wearing and Burkhalter too—the the Luftwaffe, not the Schutzestaffle."

Luftwaffe, generic German for air force, as in the Schweizer Luftwaffe (Swiss Air Force); Schutzestaffel (sic), literally means “defense echelon” — it was Hitler’s bodyguard.

I’d have to say, this might actually be a good lesson in creativity. I think most people are more creative than they’d give themselves credit for, but they’re afraid to fail, afraid to look foolish.OK, well here the prof has demonstrated by analogy that, well yah, she has failed, she now looks foolish … but really, she’s no worse off than before! So maybe there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place.So forget your fears, and try something new, outlandish, potentially embarrassing. Maybe you’ll get all wet – - but then again, maybe you’ll come up with something really great!Tomorrow, those little embarrassments will be forgotten, but the great stuff will be remembered.

LOL!

Some may ask, “What is wrong with this guy?”A better question may be “What isn’t wrong with this guy?”

Next class: How to Get Away With Murder 101.

If I did that with my students, I’d be fired!!!

Love your comparison.

You don’t have to know what you are talking about…you just have to sound convincing.

When my biology prof in college used a squirtgun on some young female students (and male, too), he thought it very funny. When at its next meeting most of the class was similarly armed and returned fire, it was no longer funny. But it wasn’t repeated, either.That was a long time ago; today, I’d expect a lawsuit….

A fully clothed young woman drenched by a water balloon popped over her head…Isn’t there a name for this kind of fetish?

I think it’s time Luann should transfer out of that community college, or unless there’s a reason why her teacher treats her like dirt.

Think this is going goofy. The whole story line is really not like it used to be. Used to be anxious to read the comics now I for get a day or two to check in if anything is happening.

The “new” Gunther would deck this guy.

If only college classes were this “fun”.

(“..DeGroot”:) Fun-ny!!!!

Not really, Howtheduck… I would be fairly adequate at such a class… I have a decent knowledge of most common software, use a wide array of electronic devices, use electronic databases, sporadically use social media, and am reasonably adept at many aspects of electronics. I am not an expert by any means, but have and do regularly utilize electronica in my teaching, research, and daily life… that said… there are times where non-electronic methods can be sufficient or even superior. I think note taking in class via traditional pencil and paper offers a fair number of advantages in a lecture of that sort.

“Didn’t Ponchos Pilot asked the Jewish rabble to decide to kill or spare? Joshuah had no choice in the matter despite what he said.”.Pontius..He decided to put it to a vote.He did not have to do that.He could have executed those bringing charges, claiming THEY were not loyal to Caesar since they rejected his judicial system.He COULD have delayed judgment until people had time to cool off and witnesses be gathered..It all depends on what you believe.All witnesses were biased.They claimed he was able to heal sick, feed multitudes, give sight to blind, give life to dead, change wash water into fine wine, walk on water, know thoughts, talk to God and be answered and that he raised himself from the dead.They were willing to face death rather than recant their claims..If you don’t trust any of them, you may as well believe it was all made up.That’s your right.

“Most agreed with what was being done in Germany. Very few resisted and disagreed.”.They claimed they didn’t know.The ones killed had limited power to resist.I doubt many DID k ow what it really meant until it was too late.They couldn’t believe it even though it was relatively common on a smaller scale.Catholics, Lutherans, Czars.Being Jewish wasn’t safe way back then.Sure is good everybody is hate-free nowadays and no religious or political leaders ever call for genocide anymore.

Nice to see Luann again.

Huh. Creative teaching method.

Cruel yet effective