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Foes of the reform attack it as reactionary. Says Sociology Professor Orlando Patterson: "Arriving at some fixed notion of what constitutes an educated person-in this day and age. it just won't wash. It moves away from a view that learning to think for oneself is the key to a modern education...
Weltha's troubles began when the campus newspaper, the Iowa State Daily, wrote about his ability to see auras, which he described as the "visible field of color around people." That caught the eye of another faculty member, Professor John Patterson, who teaches materials science and engineering. Incensed at what he considered to be blatant nonsense, Patterson wrote a letter to the Daily challenging Weltha to put his aura-detecting ability to a scientifically rigorous test. Weltha responded with a letter that avoided the challenge, and the debate has gathered velocity ever since: in private faculty discussions...
...Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and he took it very seriously. He had a very detailed knowledge of the field of emergency medical care--it was better than mine. I think I had more experience than he did, but in a weird case, you'd do better to have Patterson along, because he'd read the book. He'd read all of them...
...Patterson smoked massive quantities of dope. Jim tells the story of the time Bob and four or five of his friends wanted to get high in the Moffat Tunnel, a six-mile-long railroad tunnel beneath the Continental Divide, its western portal across a bridge from the Winter Park lodge. They walked in about 30 yards, sat down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn...
...never forget, we had an accident--it was the grossest thing I'd ever seen in my life--a guy took a spill and cut most of his balls off with a ski pole. Patterson handled that accident like he'd been through it 30 times in his life--putting the guy back together, and talking him through the whole thing...