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The engineering department at the University of Maine has opened the gates for students to take revenge against their professors by sponsoring a “Faculty Dollar Dare.” For those who have taken a class through the engineering department and dreamed of a day to humiliate certain professors for their long classes or hard tests, a dream has just come true.
“We’re really playing on student emotions,” said Roxie Paine, a graduating engineering student and chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. “This is geared toward anyone who has ever had one of these professors and wanted to get back at them.”
Besides catering to students with a grudge, the Faculty Dollar Dare is a creative method of gaining funds for a scholarship program for future members of the IEEE.
“Janelle Tonti and I created this game because we have been losing so many scholarships,” Paine said.
The specific events and professors involved have not yet been released.
Organizers are advertising the Dollar Dare in as many places as possible, hoping to get students, faculty and alumni to place bets on their favorite, or least favorite, professor.
“The way it works is each professor has agreed to perform a certain task if they are the person with the most votes at the end. People can place as many votes as they want, for $1 per vote,” Paine said.
Voting began at 8 a.m. Monday, and will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 18. People can vote on the Web site, www.eece.maine.edu/ieee, or place their vote in a ballot box in 113 Barrows Hall.
“The best thing about the game is, if a professor is ahead and doesn’t want to perform the task, they can place votes on the next person below them to get themselves out of the running,” Paine said.
The professors, in the case of a tie, will perform their feat on the Thursday or Friday night before Spring Break if the task is an all-day event. The group is unsure how much money they will make on the Dollar Dare, but they made $50 on the first day.
“We hope to make this an annual thing,” Paine said. “If you’ve ever just sat there during a class and wondered ‘How much money would I pay just to see this professor make a fool of himself/herself?,’ this is your chance to find out.”
