And this is unusual how?

Student Kacie Spears said professor Louis Houston lost control right after class began Wednesday morning and was yelling obscenities.

"Then he told us if we got out of our seats he's gonna kill us. He went on the black board and wrote "911 now", so we were really in fear for our lives," Spears told KATC-TV.

Spears said Houston slapped a student and then told his class he was God.

After class ended, students left the room in Broussard Hall and someone called campus security.

I half-jest. A few of my professors were wonderful. Some weren't.

But I can understand how some with deep ego-gratification needs could be drawn to academia. Sometimes I think it's only the "soft sciences" or liberal arts which suffer these extreme types, but then I remind myself there are also those like Ted Kaczynski (Mathematics) and this fellow (Physics).