Iowa State Peeved About New TA Satire Videos
In what’s pretty much a mockumentary on the state of affairs for graduate student teaching assistants, several Iowa State TAs have given fake interviews and say ridiculous things like “What can I write that will drive this kid to suicide?” in several videos posted to YouTube and Facebook recently.
The English Department TAs mostly complain about class size and work loads (something teachers never complain about) and do so in mostly humorous fashion.
The administration, predictably, isn’t very happy. They claim that instead of it being a legitimate expression of free speech, the videos are “offensive” and “undermine the credibility of instruction.”
They’ve also started calling students into private meetings to tell them to take the videos down, which sounds an awful lot like intimidation to me.
All this will do is just make the videos even more viral than they already are. Congratulations, English professors. You’ve discovered the power of the Internet.
Watch the first video here:
Categories: English Departments, Iowa State, Uncategorized, can't take a joke, satire
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