Hmmm, I guess I have to slightly rephrase my former statement: The Koreans did not manage to beat Rudi’s team. Well, we now have the vice-world-champion for sure. We will see who is going to be Germany’s opponent in the final. Ah, before I forget: I hereby declare that I do not support the behavior of some German buttheads that -for my taste- felt a little too much at home in Maastricht today. I also applauded to the German team for today’s achievement, but that does not mean that one as a foreigner has to setup an auto-corso through Maastricht waving the German flag and screaming „Finaaaaall???????, Finaaaaal????????“ — people, this is disgusting! — I just read Mathieu’s statement about his trouble with Marc van Wegberg and I can no other but to express my respect for speaking up. I can tell my own story about him and what procedures he believes to be of truly academic nature… I browsed through my files and will now post what actually happened in last year’s e-Commerce course „Internet Technology for International Business“. The course was easy for someone with webdesign-experience. My course-website was graded a nine, participation ten, but later revised down to 8 because the block-coordinator found that the grades were too good… (no comment!) The exam was ridiculous, resulting in an even more ridiculous comment to be found on the course-website:
„We correct for mistakes, not for differences of opinion. If you have a different opinion about something, too bad.“
-Well, I guess this wraps it up. If I look at the course-website, I gotta puke, to be honest. If I read this kind of academic statement, I gotta puke even more. Statements of this kind support my opinion that a severe „Profilneurose“ is omnipresent at the University of Maastricht. Why not simply give a good grade? Do NOT chose this course unless you are willing to take the risk of being told a total fool just because you dare to have a different opinion which might even be supported by a book other than the obliged literature….