Timeline for Why do people hang up papers on their doors?
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 0:01 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | The internet is wide and expansive, and there is no need for students to visit the pages on which a professor might post papers that she just happens to like (as opposed to those which are actually being assigned). So posting such papers on office doors might actually garner a wider audience (at least among the student body) than just posting them online. For example, this was pretty common practice in the Physics department at my school; my favorite paper posted was the unified theory of Superman's powers. | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 22:55 | answer | added | smci | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 18:46 | comment | added | GEdgar | because web pages exist ... agreed, but this custom predates the internet. Some of us here are old enough to remember back to those days. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 17:00 | answer | added | dsfgsho | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | Compass | I've seen them mounted onto a board specifically dedicated to papers, but never on faculty doors. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 14:42 | answer | added | mikeagg | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | KRyan | In Germany, to my understanding, this was a long-established and traditional practice for quite a long time before Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door. Wikipedia cites “Oberman, Heiko, Luther, Man between God and the Devil” for the statement that doing so was “according to university custom.” | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 14:27 | answer | added | pocketlizard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | Bakuriu | One of my professor has a photo of him in defensive position with boxing gloves and a nasty look, over which it's written Are you sure that it's office hour? | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 12:12 | vote | accept | nimcap | ||
| Jan 20, 2015 at 9:53 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @ff524: Indeed, and that is by no means specific to academia compared to other workplaces. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 1:05 | comment | added | Kimball | In addition to Massimo's question of where is this happening, in what departments? all? I have never seen this either. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 23:44 | answer | added | Inquisitive | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | Dave Clarke | If you hang them on the window, they block out the light. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 16:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/557205921836056576 | ||
| Jan 19, 2015 at 15:23 | answer | added | Henry | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 14:24 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 51 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:55 | comment | added | Marc Claesen | I would like to add that another reason may be that the alternative of hanging reviewers is typically frowned upon. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:48 | answer | added | FraEnrico | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:05 | history | edited | Peter Jansson |
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| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:05 | answer | added | Peter Jansson | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:05 | comment | added | Trylks | @JeffE maybe in case you have to wait at the door, as a passtime. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 13:04 | comment | added | JeffE | So people can read them, of course. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 12:54 | comment | added | Long Thai | I heard that there is an office in my department where rejected papers of people inside that office are hung on the door... I guess that different people have different ideas about how to decorate their door | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 12:49 | comment | added | ff524 | What? I see all kinds of things on office doors but haven't seen research papers... | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Which country are you talking about? | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 12:39 | history | asked | nimcap | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
