When I think back to the professors who had the biggest impact on me, arrogance was not a trait that they had.
If a professor had said on the first day of class “get out of my class,” as Professor Adams apparently does, I’d like to think I would have been the first out the door.
But to fair @DonnaL , there really is no issue more important right now than starbucks cups without trees on them…right? L-)
Smoke and mirrors…look over there!
To try and be fair, I think, the people that complain about Starbucks are really trying to make a larger point, which is that, in their opinion, the good feeling associated with Christmas on a national level has been eroded. This is due to a variety of factors, one of which is that retailers are overreacting to a certain segment of the population, again in their opinion. I am not giving my opinion here, just pointing out that it is more than just Starbucks and their cups. That is an example of a much larger issue.
I think they (Starbucks) should consider modelling their cups from this example of the 3 wise men http://www.cafepress.com/+the_3_weisman_stainless_steel_travel_mug,756751746
^Are those cups supposed to be at all funny?? I ordered two so I can be shocked up close.
Well, if you don’t find them amusing, feel free to re-gift them 
If the folks complaining about the starbucks cups were sincere, a simple purple cup would suffice. Red is for another event.
I find it amusing that the complaint about Starbucks cups is the removal of all the pagan “Christmas” symbols 
I think Howard Schultz should make the December cups blue and white.
Yes, @DecideSomeHow - Maybe they should be purple for Advent and not red at all. I still vote for blue and white.
This professor sounds like a burnt out crank with a bad attitude. You don’t get up on the first day of class and tell your students how much contempt you have for them unless you really need to retire.
@saintfan - Blue and white works just fine. Maybe what we really need is a mixture of both and refrain from saying Merry Christmas until December 25, but keep saying it until a few days after the new year, maybe the 6th? I’m sure there would be tons of folks with blown gaskets.
Is it OK to drink eggnog lattes until Epiphany?
Too many college kids nowadays still don’t wear big-boy/big-girl/big-alternatively-gendered pants.
“I think Howard Schultz should make the December cups blue and white.”
Oh no, they should be blue and bright green for what really matters…Go Seahawks!
I had a few HS teachers at my public magnet try variants of that when they attempted to get me to transfer back to my crappy crime-ridden neighborhood HS because they felt I couldn’t hack it there.
Judging by how their attempts only provided further incentive for me to stay in my public magnet to the end to stick it them if nothing else, I’d probably have reacted the same way if I heard “get out of my class” from Adams. I’d stay in, play the role of the debating gadfly to his perspectives(playing devils advocate), and see if I can somehow wrangle an -A or better grade despite the fact he’s likely to do his utmost to figure out ways to flunk me or otherwise give me a crappy grade. 
Incidentally, I acted as a debating gadfly with nearly all my college Profs. The fact they not only enjoyed it, but ended up giving me high grades and praising me for acting as such did take some fun out of it.
No, really?!? 8->
Actually, I’m sure that many here fulfilled that function. Possibly even me, on occasion.
@Consolation I resisted posting almost exactly the same thing earlier today
I was going to respond to this, but why bother? If this guy is a professor at a university with tenure, then the country has a lot more to worry about then political correctness. Not about his political beliefs, but quite frankly, the kind of things he asserts as facts when they are nothing more than the same boilerplate rants you see on talk radio, on blog sites and so forth, and with as much fact to back them up [zero].
This guy also sadly is a poster child for when people of faith claim that they are all treated like they are ignorant fools, he and others like him are why people of faith have the stereotype of being mean, ignorant yahoos, because this type of clown is what is presented out there as being ‘religious’.
He doesn’t understand free speech.