We (and the department) need to ignore any and all issues of appearance and ostensible political leanings. My question is did I handle this correctly? Should I have paid for those two classes? What would be the norm in this situation from a student's perspective? Turned in a bunch of papers and passed both classes. I opted out of that because basically I would have started off with a 70% in each class (he could not change my grades, I was told). He offered to grade the rest of my papers and give me grades for the classes. And she told him that it was the first time I had ever talked to her. The professor basically told him exactly what she told me. Basically he looked at a few of my papers and we went around in circles over the grades. Next step was going to the department chair. As a 6'3" 200-pound white male, she just would not talk to me based on how I looked.) (At the time I was boxing professionally but I really doubt she knew this. She wouldn't talk to me because I was a big male.
She says that she doesn't feel comfortable talking to me because she feels threatened-again I have two or three female friends standing a few feet from me. So I ask her what I need to do to not get a "C". This was my first direct interaction with her, and I was standing beside a few friends. She simply told me she finds me intimidating and that she would rather talk to me in class with other people around. I ask her about her office hours (after class) so I can talk about the issues on the papers. Well I get my first few papers back and there is little feedback other than very minor sentence rewording. If anything it made me act more cautious around her.īoth of the classes were very basic so I figured, whatever. I also mention it because the department head (later in story) is very quick to pull me from her class with little discussion. My adviser who was female, basically said "sorry about this" but I have to put you in her classes. I only mention the "feminist" part because this reputation preceded her around campus. At the time my GPA was around a 3.9 and had never had any issues with professors (and actually socialized with a few outside of class).įall semester I ended up getting pinned taking two classes from a female professor that had a reputation for being an extreme feminist. Background: I was a senior at a very prestigious, high-ranking university in the US.
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