Fort Hays State University fired a professor who mooned others during an altercation during a debate. He didn’t have tenure:
Becoming a YouTube star by mooning a room of students and professors doesn’t exactly provide job security for a professor without tenure.
If there was any doubt about that, Fort Hays State University cleared it up Friday when it dismissed Bill Shanahan as assistant professor of communications and debate coach. The university acted after a video posted on YouTube showed Shanahan exchanging four-letter words, jumping up and down, and dropping his pants in an extended argument with a debate coach from the University of Pittsburgh. While the altercation took place in March, the video surfaced only this month — and it has attracted thousands of views, prompted debate, and inspired some to set the incident to music.
If you click on the video in the quote above, you’ll see some very lively people, and possibly a quick view of Bill’s butt in the first minute. I stopped at that point. I couldn’t watch any more yelling before 8 a.m.
Also, I’d like to suggest some grooming to the professor before he looks for a new job.
And whose pants slip off that quickly? I think he must be a veteran mooner.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:06 am
ROFL.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
ROTFLMU*UO!
Here is the comment that I just submitted to that YouTube video.
Well I guess we can all be thankful that professor Dr. Shanara Reid Brinkley didn’t call Dr. William Shanahan a “prick” only to have him expose his proverbial “Ivory Tower of Academia” in response to that verbal provocation.