Uncool

Journalism faculty who try too hard to be the coolest, trendiest dudes on the campus are bound to run into problems.

The best, most honorable deeds, after all, don't go unpunished.

And there is a point of diminishing return on investment when it comes to some students.

I've been at this teaching thing now for 18 years. And I still haven't quite learned this lesson.

But I'm getting there.