First: learn to spell.

Graduate and move on with your life. (Maybe you're secretly in love with this professor?)

I second that.

But I would also like to point out that if YOU have been failed unreasonably, there are actions you can take against it. Every university should have a process for contesting a grade, and you should by all means make full use of that process. If you're not the one failed unreasonably, make photocopies of the process (it should be listed in some sort of university publication), and post them up in the studio of the offending professor. The process usually involves a meeting with your dean or associate dean, showing and defending your final portfolio and/or project. It often helps if you can illustrate that the failure caught you unawares, having been given no indication you were not performing up to par.

If you can get enough students together, request a meeting with all of you and your dean to discuss the problem.

I've not seen a tenured professor get ousted, but I think this is primarily because my university is ultra selective on who they tenure-track. There aren't very many real 'professors', and these problems usually occur in the 'lecturers' or 'adjuct professors', who are easier to get rid of. I've seen several of them ousted by the end-of-semester course review comments. I know some people who ARE working on either a full professor or associate professor (don't remember whether she's tenured or not) though. We'll see how that turns out!

I was seconding the spelling thing, not the secretly-in-love-with-them thing. Took me too long to think through my response, and Archi-F beat me to it!

sorry for the poor spelling, wish I could say it was because english is my second language, but realy it had no excuse

oh the irony

nice

I didnt fail, I just despise the man

why

bad breath?

tons of professors like this one you described... unfortunately, not only in the US.

I think it is very subjective opinion when you call someone, "bad professor." I've seen a lot of people who have this hatred feeling toward those professors who flunked them. I bet if you ask this same question to one of your friends who got "A" from that professor, they will say, "well, but he wasn't that bad." I am not saying you're bad student, but I want you to calm down and think about it. Plus, once you finish the school and look back, you'll realize either a: how pathetic they were, or b:who gives a rats ass, I'm done with school!

Ted, I had the bad breath prof before... he had this habit of leaning in really, really close during a desk crit too. Spent all his between class time outside smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee simultaneously.

I had one instructor who didn't seem to treat me fairly. I confronted him on, and he has respected me ever since. He even wanted to hire me to work at his firm by the time that studio was over.

It may not work for everyone - but it may be worth considering.

i had a prof who wasn't a big fan of me because i was close to another prof who was more of a contemporary, and he was a classicist. he was always asking me to take his classical arch history class, and i never did. then in my last year, i ran my own first year studio under his watch. on the first day, i went up and asked him if i could help in anyway. he gave me a task that had nothing to do with studio >> organizing a huge box of classical architecture slides. most had no name or description on it. i did it.

later i heard through other profs about how impressed he was. his views changed. he thought i knew nothing about classical arch.

i would say don't worry about it. you can't please everyone. you can't agree with everyone. it is the nature of life. learn what you can and move along.

TED - don't deny the power of bad breath!

I had one professor whose halitosis was detectable from 15' away. I am sure my grade was docked because I (and most of my classmates) spent so much time taking breaks to get away, and he was the ONE professor who made a "no random breaks" policy. I asked advice from another professor about what to do in the situation, and we concluded that there was no polite way to confront it. One could NOT get through an entire desk crit, or even a pin up, because no matter how far away you were in that small classroom, you were still oppressed by the breath.

I had several excellent professors, and mostly good professors. The few bad professors I've had were in a couple cases totally apathetic, and in other cases excellent professionals but very poor at communicating/teaching. Never nasty or unreasonable.

My worst class ever was a liberal arts requirement, Multicultural Studies. It lacked rigor and was and completely opinion-driven. The point of it seemed to be a competition for Most Oppressed. The professor took people seriously when they said stuff like "As a multiracial, gender-flexible, hate-crime survivor, I feel that my personhood is invalidated by his statement." No matter how far away you were in that small classroom, you were still oppressing someone's personhood.

Maybe you could have anonymously left some breath mints on the desk in his office?

We had this one architecture professor who would always wander around the studio, and would mutter over your shoulder "That's not what Mies would have done..." and like someone mentioned above, this guy's breath smelled like cigarettes, coffee, Slim Jims, and his hands always smelled like fromunda cheese.