Ferris State University Professor Is Put on Administrative Leave After Profanity-Laced Tirade

Some college students in Michigan might have expected their professor to cover the usual topics in a video kicking off the semester this week — attendance, grading, plagiarism. But Barry Mehler gave them a lot more than the basics. 

Mehler, a history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., told his students he didn’t want to know anything about them, not even their names, because “you people are just vectors of disease to me.”

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-WiscoDave

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It starts getting good around the 4:20 mark.