Never would we in the notoriously dull Physics department have imagined that we could generate a juicy tidbit worthy of your own high-minded interest.
We were all proud and surprised then, when the front page of Phoenix carried the headline, "Physics chair investigated"(Phoenix, Apr. 25).
Not wishing to break with form, we now offer the following denial.
In a university that can often only be categorized as Mickey Mouse, Gerry Fisher is a rare person.
While other administrators and professors blindly follow the numbing infinity of insipid bureaucratic dictates that guarantee mediocrity for much of SF State, Gerry Fisher has shaped a Physics department where the teaching and doing of physics is the only priority.
That he might then be guilty of inadvertently violating some idiotic fine-print rule in an action that has demonstrably improved both the quality of education and the overall student experience here, hardly seems to merit the scandalous article you've published.
Charles Hagar, Professor of Astronomy, Roger Bland, Professor of Physics J.M. Lockhart, Professor of Physics, Chris Hodges, Professor of Physics, George Mundy, Co-President, Society of Physics and Astronomy students.
Editor's note; The above letter also contained an additional 24 signatures.
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