Why universities need to embrace their wild side

There should be a place for such things, though not so much if it is combined with authority over others, career and money decisions and the like. Is the bad behaviour not partly symbolic of power and unaccountability?

A lecture is, at least in part, entertainment, a performance. If students enjoy the lecture, they are more likely to remember the contents. Thus there is method in my madness. I do go so far as to have a slide deck, but it generally consists of a series of images, each one triggers whatever the next thing I have to say might happen to be. I tell stories. I would tell jokes only I am lousy at telling jokes. A referee's whistle got blown (it was a lecture about the ethics of whistleblowing...) If the subject matter doesn't entertain ME, why should it entertain the students? I probably class as eccentric.

A fantastic read. Character is in such short supply nowadays.