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re: Is Harry Mokeba still the best professor LSU has to offer?
Posted on 12/23/24 at 8:54 pm to danilo
Posted on 12/23/24 at 8:54 pm to danilo
Dude, Harry has been at LSU since 1990 at least and he's probably been the most popular professor since that time. He's entertaining and informative. Can make you laugh and think.
He's one of the few professors that truly does not care about the student's political persuasion or perspective. Make your case and defend it. Harry was/is one cool cat.
He's one of the few professors that truly does not care about the student's political persuasion or perspective. Make your case and defend it. Harry was/is one cool cat.
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Posted on 12/23/24 at 8:55 pm to DiamondDog
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Kerry Sauley
Had this guy last semester. Went to his first class and never went again
Posted on 12/23/24 at 8:58 pm to Ron Popeil
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You speak the truth. Van Cox, Bruce Sharkey, and Neil Odenwald are up there too.
They're only known to people like you and me that were in the LA school. It was and is such a small program, but it's the best thing LSU has. It flies under the radar to most.
Bruce was always my favorite. RIP, Bruce.
I remember Odenwald administered my Louisiana section of the LARE. We took the written test, and when it came time for the walk-around ID section, a typical Baton Rouge afternoon storm rolled in. He looked out the door and then back at us and said "screw it, y'all all pass the ID portion."
Posted on 12/23/24 at 8:59 pm to NussBusRider7
My only B in a poli sci class was his. Still enjoyed the class though. Quite the character
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:03 pm to PoBoy1
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Is Dr. Mokeba still at LSU?
Loved his classes
Yes, i took all seven of his classes offered. just graduated in the spring.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:09 pm to NussBusRider7
Harry "Mbella" Mokeba was one of the better Poli Sci professors at LSU. I was in one of his first classes when he arrived to teach. He didn't seem to challenge right wing students as much as you intimate. Rather, he challenged all of us.
I was always the first to be in the classroom, since I had Dr. Harris in the same room the previous hour. Dr. Mokeba asked me if I had noticed that all the black students sat in the back corner together and wouldn't mix with the white students who would sit in different parts of the classroom on different days. He thought it rather odd that people who cried out in anguish for equality and acceptance as equals would make no effort to demonstrate that they were equal or that they would accept others.
He said quite frankly, one day before class had completely assembled for the lecture, that students from his home of Cameroon "would not be wasting the opportunity to interact with others in the pursuit of knowledge and academic excellence."
He was a fine professor and made an impression on me in that class on world economics. In all that time, I never recall him saying anything against "right wing beliefs." Is it possible that you have him confused with Dr. Kwasi Harris, who is indeed holds and espouses Leftist doctrine from his classroom throne? (Dr. Mokeba was most definitely not a fan of Dr. Harris in my days at LSU. He was quite confused by Dr. Harris's assertions and presentations of his "personal facts.") Maybe something changed and he is not the same professor I remember from thirty-five years ago.
As KiwiHead stated:
This is exactly how I remeber him. Make your case and defend it. He demanded that students use their mind and their intellect rather than recite by rote something you had been told in class.
I was always the first to be in the classroom, since I had Dr. Harris in the same room the previous hour. Dr. Mokeba asked me if I had noticed that all the black students sat in the back corner together and wouldn't mix with the white students who would sit in different parts of the classroom on different days. He thought it rather odd that people who cried out in anguish for equality and acceptance as equals would make no effort to demonstrate that they were equal or that they would accept others.
He said quite frankly, one day before class had completely assembled for the lecture, that students from his home of Cameroon "would not be wasting the opportunity to interact with others in the pursuit of knowledge and academic excellence."
He was a fine professor and made an impression on me in that class on world economics. In all that time, I never recall him saying anything against "right wing beliefs." Is it possible that you have him confused with Dr. Kwasi Harris, who is indeed holds and espouses Leftist doctrine from his classroom throne? (Dr. Mokeba was most definitely not a fan of Dr. Harris in my days at LSU. He was quite confused by Dr. Harris's assertions and presentations of his "personal facts.") Maybe something changed and he is not the same professor I remember from thirty-five years ago.
As KiwiHead stated:
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He's one of the few professors that truly does not care about the student's political persuasion or perspective. Make your case and defend it. Harry was/is one cool cat.
This is exactly how I remeber him. Make your case and defend it. He demanded that students use their mind and their intellect rather than recite by rote something you had been told in class.
This post was edited on 12/23/24 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:10 pm to creamofcornsoup
That’s pretty sad. I had him and he brought in a few high level execs to discuss their HR / employee polices. Of which we utilitized in our company afterwards.
You quietly literally are missing out on learning how to better any entity you go work for.
You quietly literally are missing out on learning how to better any entity you go work for.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:18 pm to NussBusRider7
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he was the best that school had to offer
Andrew King was another excellent professor.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:19 pm to NussBusRider7
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chellenge the views of many students of right wing beliefs. (something
Yeah. That’s what college is missing, left wing professors.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:22 pm to ILurkThereforeIAm
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At one point in class, he said if there was anyone in class who knew all of the lyrics to Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” and could sing them out loud to the class, he would give everyone in the class an A.
I’m now starting to think there were better professors at LSU than Harry Mokeba.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:31 pm to creamofcornsoup
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Had this guy last semester. Went to his first class and never went again
Dumb. He gives you the test. His Organizational Theory course is worth the time in gold.
I kept the notes from that class my first 10 years out of school.
If you want to lead, Sauley's class gives you a good introduction in to corporate culture.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:42 pm to creamofcornsoup
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Had this guy last semester. Went to his first class and never went again
Not a flex
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:49 pm to Swamp Angel
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I never recall him saying anything against "right wing beliefs."
It was all beliefs in general. But alot of individuals on the rant and in this state do not like when right wing beliefs are challenged in general. As evidenced by the downvotes on an otherwise harmless post.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:54 pm to KiwiHead
I loved his classes. Great fun, learned a bit too
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:57 pm to NussBusRider7
Now THAT I do recall. If you ever espoused a belief or strongly held opinion in his presence he demanded that you defend it with fact and logic. He would flat out tell you, "If you don't know why you believe something, or if you are unable to support your belief or opinion with facts, then you have no right to espouse that belief or opinion."
I can't say there is anything wrong with that line of thought. I am just as frustrated with "Sean Hannity"-type right wingers as I am with mush-brained leftists. He taught that you should always study your own position as much as any other to ensure you aren't blindly following another.
I can't say there is anything wrong with that line of thought. I am just as frustrated with "Sean Hannity"-type right wingers as I am with mush-brained leftists. He taught that you should always study your own position as much as any other to ensure you aren't blindly following another.
Posted on 12/23/24 at 10:22 pm to Willie Stroker
a-hole! I was in that class!
Posted on 12/23/24 at 10:23 pm to NussBusRider7
frick all this woke/joke bullshite
Posted on 12/23/24 at 10:55 pm to NussBusRider7
Karl Roider and Ben Price were great
Posted on 12/23/24 at 11:25 pm to Swamp Angel
Speaking of poli-sci profs, what ever became of Kevin Mulcahy? I took a couple of his classes circa 1990. He was pretty entertaining and gayer than a 3 dollar bill on Sunday (not that there is anything wrong with that). He got busted a while back for being a peeping tom, and that was the last I've heard of him.
Edit: Google tells me he died last July at age 78
Edit: Google tells me he died last July at age 78
This post was edited on 12/23/24 at 11:27 pm
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