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By Asher Leffell Oct. 17, 2017 UChicago has a long history of professors with big ideas. Every undergrad has heard at some point the story of Adam Stevens, the Chemistry professor who gave himself polio to motivate his students to find a cure. And Economics professor Richard Thaler recently won a nobel prize for his at the time morally gray experiments on the toad anatomy. However, one Hum professor is setting a new bench-mark in zaniness with his new mind-bending classroom policy. \u00a0 Dr. Victor Fox, who insists that his students call him whatever they want (so long as its not \u201cDoctor\u201d), lets his students call the shots. \u201cI recognize that students here are notoriously busy,\u201d says Slick Vic, \u201cand so at the beginning of every quarter I let my students vote for what week they want the midterm, provided its either 4th or 5th week.\u201d \u00a0 Did somebody say \u201cCool Professor\u201d? Old VicDonald went on to say \u201cIf it were up to me, there wouldn\u2019t be any grade at all, and so no midterm. But my hands are tied by the higher ups, so I instead let the students choose between a 4-date slate of possible midterm dates so that they can focus on it when the time comes.\u201d \u00a0 When we contacted the administration, a representative confirmed our suspicions. \u201cDr. Victor has been a thorn in our side for years with his cavalier teaching style. But what can I say? The students love him\u201d \u00a0 That\u2019s for sure. We had no shortage of students, past and present, dying to endorse their beloved teacher. \u201cBig Vic Vapor Rub is without a doubt the greatest teacher I\u2019ve ever had. He just wants us to succeed, and that\u2019s why a plurality of the class gets the pick of the litter in terms of when we have to take that pesky midterm,\u201d said one current student. \u00a0 A former student had more to say about the content of the midterm itself. \u201cMaybe I shouldn\u2019t be saying this, but he\u2019ll ask questions like, \u201cwhat\u2019s your favorite UChicago caf\u00e9?\u201d, because it has no wrong answers and he wants to give us free points.\u201d He continued, chuckling \u201cExcept maybe Ex-Libris.\u00a0 Everyone knows Vic-Tac does not like setting foot in there.\u201d \u00a0 Clearly the banter is flowing every session. Sounds pretty cool, right? While the jury is still out on whether such a cavalier policy is sustainable, one thing is for sure: these students are in for an easy quarter. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}