By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Purdue University, prestigious right? You’d expect someone going to there to be proud and want to learn, and also to show some respect to his professors. Well, nowadays too many people have a ’sense of entitlement’ about things, and this qualifies.
A university student, whose name was not released, was in Les Meade’s class when his cell phone started ringing. Meade told him to turn it off but the student did not comply, leading Meade to take the student’s phone, telling him he could pick it up the next day from the dean’s office.
The student called the police after class and accused Meade of stealing. Meade, an adjunct instructor who also serves as a superior court judge, was then forced to return the phone. Source: TG Daily
We Say: The case was dismissed. Frankly, IMHO, the student was being a big baby. I’m sure this instructor, who was a superior court judge mind you, told the students what the rules were prior to the first class. He asked him to turn it off, he wouldn’t, live with the consequences.
Of course, what was funny was that as the special prosecutor was reading the ruling, in a courtroom plastered with signs demanding cell phones be turned off … his phone rang.
The TG story warps the story a bit.
This is from the local newspaper.
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007705260338
he was never charged. It was referred for review by the prosecutors office to insure that there was not any suggestion of impropriety.
Also note that, because of the brilliant student’s actions, all future problems are to be handled by the dismissal of the student from the classroom. If the student refuses to leave, then the police are to be called.
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS0501/705190334/1034/NEWS0501
“Since the incident, instructors in Krannert have been advised to dismiss from class any student who causes a similar disruption. If a student refuses to leave after being dismissed, police should be called, Norberg said.”