Because I feel that a fair amount of
students will actually learn from the “filthy” mnemonics, I go
ahead and refer the students with the disclaimer that there may be some
mnemonics that they may find offensive.
I never say them myself, too risky at a
non-tenure institution.
Jason LaPres
Associate Professor of Biology
Human Anatomy and Physiology
North Harris College
2700 WW Thorne
Winship 210E
Houston Texas 77090
281-618-7132
From:
HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Saladin
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007
12:01 PM
To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [HAPS-L] Cranial
nerves and memes
I used to run a "Filthy cranial nerve mnemonics" contest with
a nice
prize (a sprang for the prize). All of my A & P students were invited to
enter and to judge. The competing mnemonics were covered so that those
who didn't wish to sully their eyes by seeing the obscenity, didn't have
to. Naturally, the names of the creators were concealed.
I stopped doing this around 10 years ago when a complaint was heard by
the dean at the time. T
My contest was never for "filthy" mnemonics. I wonder what
potentially could happen, though, if I were to refer students to the Wikipedia
page where there happened to be some off-color mnemonics in the list?
You may have noticed in my texts that I refer to the known cranial nerve
mnemonics as "ranging from the sublimely silly to the unprintably
ribald."
K.