re: Winter Storm Check-In

I saw this story going around online, and it was a Mississippi State professor, not an Ole Miss professor. That professor was also just an instructor and made to retract that by the dean of students.

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I am a professor at Ole Miss, and we've been instructed directly by the provost to basically put everything on hold and adjust due dates accordingly. The Lyceum is basically telling us politely to be cool until classes officially resume because things are pretty bad. I

I know the stereotype is that we all have our head up our asses, but you'd find the ratio of problem cases is about the same as any other profession. Granted, we probably overrepresent in having some pretty rough social skills, but the vast majority of us feel the same way the rest of the community does. This is pretty awful, a nasty little reminder of how little control anyone really has, an that, at the moment, homework due dates and quizzes are not the primary concern.

Most of what I heard today from my colleagues was that it was a relief to push this back a week because we don't want to spend next week figuring out who really doesn't still have power and can't get to class vs. who is just using it as an excuse. None of us want to come down on a student in a tough spot, and this will help a lot with that.

Don't believe all the hearsay you hear online. Just cruising the Oxford, MS, Facebook groups is enough to show you that reading comprehension, not to even start with vetting all the bs being tossed around against an official source, is a rare commodity online. I've got a few colleagues who still can't get out of their driveways yet, and others scrambling around trying to figure out what to do with their elderly parents, which is to say, we're just like the rest of Oxford and have been equally fricked by mother nature this week.