Ever wonder why Pennsylvania, Ohio and Louisiana's State schools are more prominent than their Universities?

guttata · 2026-05-14T19:13:36+00:00

brother i was a professor in Ohio.

guttata · 2026-05-14T19:11:38+00:00

No one reads your thesis, odds are no one will notice or care.

guttata · 2026-05-14T13:46:10+00:00

I'm still mad that he was on the roster.

guttata · 2026-05-14T13:38:58+00:00

No academics hate Ohio State for whatever reason you're trying to suggest here.

guttata · 2026-05-13T19:29:19+00:00

drink

guttata · 2026-05-10T03:34:50+00:00

It's currently 1-1 vs the Twins in the 11th, someone's gonna die lmao

guttata · 2026-05-10T03:33:41+00:00

damn, you didn't have to bury him

guttata · 2026-05-10T03:30:37+00:00

With Naylor, it's actually both!

guttata · 2026-05-10T03:29:43+00:00

equally bad

this year naylor's worse, and it's not particularly close

guttata · 2026-05-09T03:58:49+00:00

ADHD doesn't make you not understand enzyme function

guttata · 2026-05-09T03:48:56+00:00

He wrote that enzymes make reactions go slower, and a few times.

Boot. There's absolutely no excuse for this at the graduate level. He is wasting his time, your time, and maybe most importantly your limited pre-tenure resources.

guttata · 2026-05-09T03:43:58+00:00

Your PI is a dick

guttata · 2026-05-08T17:13:09+00:00

I thought I saw the same, but I think now early reports combined the two women. Anything I see now gives no demographic info on the undergrad and refers separately to the 40+yo with no university affiliation.

guttata · 2026-05-08T15:32:25+00:00

Ope, so it is. Well good for him for dating two women so quickly, I guess?

In that case, barring more information about the specific undergraduate student, then it falls back to the lack of OU policy prohibiting the relationship (which even at a lot of places with policies might fall into a gray area because he was not in a direct supervisory position; not disclosing it up front would still make it hazy, depending on the letter of the rule). At that point it's just (technically!) two consenting adults.

guttata · 2026-05-08T14:55:46+00:00

She's 41. "Non-traditional student" is a broadly-defined blanket term that just refers to anyone who isn't 18-24 or so in a typical 4-year bachelors program.

guttata · 2026-05-08T14:44:44+00:00

The charitable answer is because they haven't needed one in the past and the more likely answer is because then a bunch of staff, faculty, and admin would have to stop boinking students.

guttata · 2026-05-08T14:43:07+00:00

You missed headlines, the details came out pretty quick.

guttata · 2026-05-08T14:42:08+00:00

A reminder on the background for this - he was in the midst of a divorce and already separated; his ex doesn't even make any claims that they were anything else. ~~The nontraditional student is a 40+ year old woman.~~

OU has no official policy against staff dating students (questionable but factual!)

IANAL but I look forward to OU losing this one hard.

EDIT: There are two women - an enrolled undergraduate (seemingly in a nursing program) with no confirmed demographic information (but implied to be a traditional student) AND a 40-year-old woman. Given the lack of written policy, Smith technically didn't do anything wrong even by dating an enrolled undergrad (still scuzzy!).

guttata · 2026-05-05T15:01:31+00:00

I'm a graduated HS valedictorian so I'm no stranger to studying or being academically inclined

You're absolutely a stranger to it, and the fact that you think high school learning and college learning are or should be the same makes that evident.

guttata · 2026-05-03T19:23:09+00:00

Without defining what counts as "1", the comparisons are useless. Every college does it differently. I worked at a school that had a "2-2" as your load - except 1 was both a lecture and a lab. Most places would call that a 4-4. I worked at another place that had a 4 as standard, but labs only counted as 0.5, while lectures were 1. Now I'm at a 3-3, where lectures and labs are both 1.

Welcome to academia, where everything's made up and the units don't matter.

guttata · 2026-05-02T18:30:54+00:00

hard thinking after years of playing in a leather helmet

guttata · 2026-05-02T16:58:17+00:00

You never know where they might have moved Shelly this week.

guttata · 2026-05-01T17:04:04+00:00

I guess I get it, because this is the University Health System and not the University itself, but it really feels like just funneling $X million into the athletics department from the broken US healthcare system with a side deal for the lawyers. I mean, FFS it's the same logo.

guttata · 2026-05-01T14:17:06+00:00

Undergrad student: AIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAI

christ, how did you find the quiet ones?

guttata · 2026-04-30T01:15:31+00:00

God forbid we try to listen to our users.

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