December 2, 2005

Must-Think TV

By KAREN BIRCHARD

I magine if the television program American Idol replaced its wannabe singing stars with college professors lecturing their hearts out.

A ratings dud? Not in Canada, where the program Big Ideas, on the educational-television network TVOntario, had 10 professors compete over five weeks for the title of Ontario's Best Lecturer or, as some were calling it, Professor Idol.

In the end, Arne Kislenko, a history professor at Ryerson University who is known as a tough grader, wowed the

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