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August 14, 2008, 02:41 PM ET
A Professor's Mooning Is Captured on YouTube
As reported today in The Chronicle, a debate coach for Fort Hays State University, in Kansas, is under review by the institution after he swore at officials and mooned judges at a tournament earlier this year. Someone was there filming the event — apparently for archival purposes — and footage of the incident is now on YouTube.
The YouTube clip focuses on the chaotic scene in which the coach, William Shanahan III, got into a shouting match with a judge — and at one point briefly dropped his pants — during the national tournament of the Cross Examination Debate Association. Mr. Shanahan, who is barefoot and wearing short pants with his shirttail out, is seen running across the front of the room and gesturing with his head and hands before briefly dropping his pants.
Footage of the full debate, in which the argument began in a more calm fashion, is also online.
A few years ago — before YouTube existed — the incident would probably have been simply a local affair. But this footage has now been watched by more than 100,000 people online. These days, with so many college events being recorded and a hunger by Internet users for quirky footage, such incidents are bound to wind up finding an international audience online. And now the professor’s university is getting angry calls from alumni and others demanding that it fire the professor for his behavior, and the university is investigating the incident.
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