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Details have just begun to emerge regarding the conditions in Professor Barry Heitzman\u0092s section of the Greek Thought and Literature class, where students were reportedly kept chained to walls and forced to watch shadows cast by a large fire Heitzman had lit in the back of the room.<\/p>\n
\tUniversity officials dismissed Heitzman Wednesday, after the investigation of noise complaints from neighboring classes revealed the imprisoned students, who pleaded that they had been locked up for several days and needed to be freed.<\/p>\n
\t\u0093It was crazy. We came in one morning after a Plato reading, and he had a whip,\u0094 said first-year Mark Robins. \u0093He made us strip naked, then put shackles around our arms and legs. There was this big bonfire in the back of the room, too, but it looked like there was room for someone to walk in front of it.\u0094<\/p>\n
\t\u0093He just kept yelling, ‘Look at the shadows! Look at the shadows!’ said Robins, shuddering.<\/p>\n
\tThe University released a statement shortly after Heitzman\u0092s dismissal was made public. \u0093While we respect the right of our professors to instruct in innovative ways, and in fact encourage it, Professor Heitzman showed a blatant disregard for the facilities of the University in burning several desks and chairs, as well as drilling into walls to mount his slave-containment apparatus.\u0094<\/p>\n
\tThis is not the first time Heitzman has run afoul of administration. In 2006, Heitzman was sanctioned after soot left on the walls from his lecture entitled \u0093Marx\u0092 Enemy: Working Conditions in a 19th-Century German Factory\u0094 proved difficult to remove.<\/p>\n
\tA University spokesman also remarked that pulling an ox-drawn cart through classrooms so that students would be able to observe its skewed shadow on the wall is \u0093explicitly forbidden.\u0094 <\/p>\n
\t\u0093It was kind of weird,\u0094 added Robins. \u0093After staring at those shadows for a few days without food or water, I started to think about how we perceive all of reality. I thought that maybe it wasn\u0092t just that ox, or those olive merchants that we couldn\u0092t really see, but maybe all that we interact with in life is just the impression of some great true form perpetually hidden from our view and understanding.\u0094 <\/p>\n
\t\u0093Never mind,\u0094 Robins said after a few moments’ thought. \u0093That\u0092s kind of stupid.\u0094<\/p>\n
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