Who has had some crazy professors?

[ScottyB]

haha that's awesome. all my professors worth noting are art profs.

if anyone at JMU takes any form of graphic design or illustration class, take Rich Hilliard (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.richhilliard.com/">http://www.richhilliard.com/</a><!-- m -->)

he's a no-bullshit, hilarious guy from NY that has a ridiculous temper but if you're on his good side he's one of the funniest people i've ever seen. i loved his classes and took about 4 of them. very skilled professionally as well.

he once told a story of how he and his wife were driving down the freeway in NY and some guy cut him off very dangerously. he then talked about how he stalked this guy all the way to the mall, where he proceeded to cruise around until he found a shopping cart. he then wheeled it all the way back to the guy's car and hurled it, overhead thow, onto his hood repeatedly from a few feet back. someone in the class asked him if he was being serious, and he looked back at her like she asked him if he eats babies. "i'm serious as a fucking heart attack!" after the shock wore off we all laughed and he told more stories about new york. Rich has the greatest office in all of JMU. it's a comic book store memorabilia explosion.


there was also Professor William Tate -- industrial design. he is a weird dude. i don't even have any really specific stories because he's just weird all the time. a cool genius, but weird. in his history of architecture class he used to lean up against the pedestal in really weird ways, like he was stretching for a jog or something. it used to freak the girls out a bit. his tests were amazing....i recall an essay on one test was to come up with reasons why army was better than navy, or to put eloquently why harrisonburg's corporate architecture sucks, citing the specific buildings. you could basically write poetry about trees for all he cared as long as you pointed out how cool modern architecture is and that McMansions and mini malls are gay.