Headline Oct23,2012/

''ONE PROFESSOR YOU ARE SURE TO MEET IN HEAVEN!''

Professor Cobb used to love appearing around campus in various disguises! Just hear it in his own words, ''Yes. I first did it on a parents weekend. I walked into my class and sat down. We all waited for the Teacher to show up. After a few minutes I expressed impatience that the Teacher was late, stood up and began to remove layers.

I took off my hat, I took off my wig, I took off my mustache, I took off my jacket,my shoes, my pants, and under all of that I had on my three-piece suit!!

I then announced that things were not always what they appeared to be. ''That was the main theme of the course.''

The Students loved their Professor even though they found him odd. And Professor Cobb thought, ''I don't mind being considered odd.
I wanted my students to say to themselves,
Here is a man with his own vision of Excellence, peculiar as it may be, and he is consistent in trying to fill it in everything he does, even in the way he dresses.''

So when the Professor is posed with the question, ''In Literature, do you identify with the guys who wear black hats or the guys who wear white hats?'' He turns pensive and philosophic: ''The black hats. They are much more interesting. The guys in the white hats have a whole list of qualifications, including that they can not be too bright; they have got to be pious and virtuous.And Lucifer is a lot more interesting than.....whoever.

The difference between darkness and blackness, well, that is the ultimate game: to be opposed to all of that out there. I am not saying I act this out. But it's the appeal of the outsider, of the misfit,of the outcast, of the person who,probably futilely, is trying to overthrow order.

Like Lucifer, rising up, taking a look at those stars and saying, ''Damn it.''

So, a good question is, does he work within a system at the University?

''Sure,'' says the Professor, ''but I play with it all the time.'' Hahaha! Great work, Sir!

Professor David Cobb is a great Teacher, but he is also a soldier with a black belt in both judo and karate, a painter, an aesthete and pretty good country ballplayer to boot. So how does he reconcile all of these people.

The Prof smiles that all knowing smile and says:

My favourite lines of poetry are from Walt Whitman:

''Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes!"

Good night & God Bless!