Michigan State Math Professor Strips Naked in Class, Is Now Hospitalized After his math teacher at Michigan State University had an in-class nervous breakdown that resulted in him tearing off his clothes and screaming at students, a witness immediately took to the Internet to explain. UPDATE: Multiple sources have confirmed to HyperVocal privately that the teacher in question is John David McCarthy, professor of mathematics, who has taught at Michigan State University since 1985. Follow us for more updates: Follow Us SEE ALSO: • How Reddit Made a Movie Extra More Famous Than Tom Cruise • Brutal: Philadelphia Police Officer Sucker Punches Woman The Reddit post that started it all: I was in Calc 1 at Michigan State University, and my teacher was always pretty eccentric, but today he went overboard. Half way through class he started screaming at us, swearing left and right. He then started slamming his hands on the window and pressing his face against it, still screaming. Eventually he walked out and down the hallway to the end, all while screaming. He then came back into the classroom and took off his clothes, except for his socks. You know someones crazy when they leave their socks on lmao. At this point everyone in class ran out. We were literally scared for his life. The police took about 15 minutes to get here, and during this time he continued walking around screaming. He went between apologizing, yelling at us for sucking at math, and just plain gibberish. He was just teaching and then started talking, then crying, then angry and screaming and shit. I was so scared lmao. The worst part was when we went to get up to run away and he came barreling back into the room so we quickly were like “shit sit down!!” We reached out to several students via DM. One responded, There was always something off about him. He repeated himself multiple times about subjects with no relevance to the class. And today he came in really depressed. Maybe his wife left him? who knows. But then he just snapped. Went off about there being no ****ing god. Another, a computer science student named Adam Crane, wrote to HyperVocal, I was in the classroom just down the hall(the classroom he is leaning on in the picture). We heard laughing from down the hall it quickly turned to yelling and cursing something about god. Next thing we knew his shirt was gone. Luckily from our vantage point we couldn’t see his lower half. Class was disrupted as we waited for the police to arrive. Took them 15-20 minutes even though the department is right across the street MLive reports that the professor has been hospitalized. MSU police confirms. MSU police responded and took the professor into protected custody and transported him to a local hospital. No one was injured and the professor is not being charged with a crime, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. She declined to comment further on the matter. MSU police have not released the professor’s identity or age. Inquiries made to university officials were not immediately returned. MSU’s Counseling Center has reached out to students in the professor’s class, McGlothian-Taylor said. During the professor’s lecture, one student even tweeted that something was wrong: I think my professor is literally losing his mind right in front of class mid lecture. — Karson Arnold (@karsonarnold) October 1, 2012 Another student ID’d the professor and posted this: I was in this class when it happened. He was ranting about computers, Steve Jobs(pronounced Jobes), and how everything is just an act. He ran into the hallway and pressed his face up against the windows to the room and said something about him not yelling. Then he ran back in and started crying and pulled a dollar out of his wallet for some reason. At this point we all knew he had completely lost it. He started yelling profanities and something about God. He went into the hallway and continued yelling as he made his way through the building. Class got out early so I don’t know for sure what happened then. We could all tell this was going to happen from day one. He was always acting odd and having small rants, but it was just a matter of time before this happened. He would make odd analogies about wife beating, as well as other things that didn’t standout to me as much. A third student posted on Facebook: We’ll keep you posted as more sources cover the incident and as the first witness, who goes by TheCookieKing on Reddit, continues to provide updates. Meanwhile, we hope the professor gets the help he needs. Oddly, this isn’t the first time a professor has been in the spotlight for on-campus nudity. Follow Us SEE MORE: • Washington High School Closed Following 4chan Gun Threat • Good Guy Redditor Uses Unlimited Flight Benefits to Help Strangers
TheCookieKing 01.10.12 @ 4:02 pm Glad the news is getting out, thanks! As far as reddit goes I’m answering all the questions people have, so feel free to post one!
bearnguyenson 01.10.12 @ 4:37 pm this is the guy who originally posted the info on another website. he had a first hand account, so ask him anything.
Phaggots 01.10.12 @ 5:46 pm it’s probably frustrating to teach retards at michigan state. It was probably once an okay school when he started where students weren’t complete morons and could learn the material easily, but with the regression in society, people became dumb as fuck.
Alex E. 01.10.12 @ 8:52 pm Umm…as a current student there, I must say that the cirriculum truly is difficult, especially carrying 12 or more credits. Some people don’t bother trying , but it doesn’t make the rest of us who do try and struggle “morons”.
Alex E. 01.10.12 @ 8:53 pm I do feel sorry for the man though. But as my mom said, it’s better than having someone shoot up the place.
ItBlewMyMind 01.10.12 @ 11:46 pm As a student of this Calculus class of his class the class before this happen and having been somewhat closer to him when I visited him on a agreed office session to discuss a test, I feel that he was frustrated and in a way blew it in class today because of his frustration. He was a very intelligent man and knew what he was talking about. The only issue that he had when he was teaching is that he was unable to relate analogies that students would readily understand because his understanding on the topic was in a way a lot deeper than most professors would show. Instead of just telling us how a notation in calculus came about, he would tell everyone about the history of why the old notation made sense and why the new notation didn’t explain things clearly like the old notation, “an old thing sometimes is better than a new thing” as he put it. The issue was, students didn’t seem to care in his class or had the attention span to actually sit down and understand what he was trying to say. He commended me on that in the office session, saying that “you honestly could have just gotten up and left” since I had been discussing with him for about 2 hours on a class filled weekday, which I could see was implying that most students didn’t seem to recognize his understanding of the topic. Overall, I just feel that the students weren’t to blame but the environment that he was brought up and the students were brought up made this huge gap between our lifetimes and his that he had a hard time communicating to everyone in class that didn’t have as nearly as much patience as someone like me had to find the reasoning behind his seeming “madness” and I honestly feel that the man deserves more credit than what many of the comments from the other students show.
Nostradormus 01.10.12 @ 11:49 pm Be forewarned; such is the eventual fate of all Apple Haters if you do not turn from the dark path you are on.
TefferMcG 02.10.12 @ 12:06 am wonder if you still get your pension if you wack-out like this? I guess he’s through teaching
tigtang 02.10.12 @ 8:30 am Just never know now days whats gonna drive someone to go all “Postal” on ya! AnonWay.tk
tempist 02.10.12 @ 11:30 am My source in the Msu Police are looking into the possibility of Drugs. They are confident that this wasnt just a mental break down. Bath salts are suspected to be the cause of this “out burst”.
Blake Andrew Dolph 02.10.12 @ 1:10 pm bath salts are illegal in michigan and its a felony to even have them so quit trying to make up bull shit your prolly not even from michigan
-.-" 02.10.12 @ 6:28 pm I was about to post the same as the others… You may brag about how you understand math but I barely understood what you were saying… How could you speak on another’s behalf?
This guy... 02.10.12 @ 6:30 pm Lol at the fact that what looks like 2 paragraphs is actually about three uber long sentences.
CompassionSpeaks 02.10.12 @ 6:49 pm Why is it when someone has a hard time they want to take their clothes off?
Faith 03.10.12 @ 11:48 pm I think the story alone would have been sufficient for this. Showing this picture is nothing but sensationalistic journalism… in poor taste and without compassion or class.
George 06.10.12 @ 2:24 pm Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for people who do drugs before teaching a class
George 06.10.12 @ 2:28 pm You may feel how you feel, but I have zero sympathy for people who do drugs before teaching a class
George 06.10.12 @ 2:29 pm Fuck that guy. He is a drug addict and a bad influence to students everywhere. He should be put in jail forever.
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