Indologists at IER have taken extreme umbrage to the silly "Hindutva Tricks" of posting spurious reviews of their teaching. In a strongly worded 4719 character essay Prof. Michael Witzel thundered about his adverse rating at the impish www.ratemyprofessors.com
"One of them gave me 5 times straight "1s"–that is the worst rating. He also merely listed the course as "Sanskrit," not with its correct name. And, he added the comment "{pathetic professor."
560 characters later Prof. Witzel was pleased to announce
"Well, with nine entries today, the site looks quite different by now
"
It is indeed, and IRFAN was pleased to notice today that after Prof. Witzel's monumental email, all negative comments have mysteriously been replaced with ones containing gratuitous praise. Infact there are now more student reviews than students Prof Witzel has taught in his entire career!
But Indologists' concern has only increased with these plaudits. IRFAN has reliably learned that the Indologists are vexed at the lack of accolades for their buns in the laudatory comments. What is even more preposterous is that even Assistant Professors from such lowly enterprises as Assumption College have earned wholesome praise for their buns in reviews by their students. Prof. Witzel's careful grooming of the magnificent crescent that adorns his rear is legendary. He is the Wales Chair at Harvard – we at IRFAN find it disgraceful that there is no appreciation of the anatomy that moulds it.
Though the ratings site has been called frivolous, said to uphold the spirit of toilet graffiti, and even cautioned by the authors of the site "to be taken with a grain of salt", we at IRFAN urge the mysterious students not to lose an opportunity there to compose hymns in praise of the Professors' buns too. You can see how Prof. Witzel has already come out smelling like roses. With the right input, we can sing Dead Horse (in Harappa) by Buns and Roses!
* Picture: Students in Vedic Sanskrit class meditate on the meaning of the Earthshasther, an early Aryan book on Flat Earth Theory that forms the basis for most of the Geography taught at Harvard.
What an ass! He is fishing for compliments on a third rate website. Worse in order to get them, fakes entries! What is it, American Academics or American Idol?
Comment by Rajasekhar — March 17, 2006 @ 7:29 am
And to fish for compliments, he is (mis)using his thirdrate IRF yahoogroup and harvard name!
Guy has no shame.
Comment by Anonymous — March 17, 2006 @ 8:55 am
Witzel now describes himself as a “South Asia Professor”, in order to get more dollars from Pakistan ISI.
Comment by Anonymous — March 18, 2006 @ 5:35 am
Its eye opener for parents, now they should check before picking up course in any Indology department.
Where ever noted 47 are teaching skip those classes.
Comment by Anonymous — March 21, 2006 @ 9:01 pm