The popularity of Professor Jones

[Canyon]

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the other side of Indy's character, the academic side. I have heard many times and am of the opinion that Indy is regarded as a very popular professor on campus by staff and students alike.

So I ask the question. Why is Professor Jones popular?

Okay, forgive me for pointing this out, but I feel that firstly, Indy is very popular in class because most of his female students (okay, all of them) think he's really hot! (and they're not the only ones!)

Another reason why I believe that Indy is popular is because of his age. In the trilogy, Indy is in his early to mid thirties and I think that this is perhaps probably considered to be fairly young, and it wouldn't surprise me if Indy was the youngest professor there. I also think that Indy's teaching style may also play a big part in his popularity.

Possible discussion perhaps?




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[intergamer]

A lot of kids also seem to hate him because he doesn't do any work...i.e. grade papers.

[Canyon]

Originally posted by intergamer
A lot of kids also seem to hate him because he doesn't do any work...i.e. grade papers.

Hate is a very strong word. :mad:

Oh, and the other reason I feel that Indy is popular is because I imagine that his students don't know about his other adventurous lifestyle. Maybe they have heard rumours about his adventures and are intreagued by what their archeology professor gets up to when he's not teaching! ;)
<small>Maybe the girls wish they could join him on an adventure...</small> :D

[monkey]

Great topic Canyon! (and fresh)

I almost wish there were more footage of Professor Jones' lectures in the movies. That would be something interesting to watch.

So why is he popular with both the female and the male students? Well, first of all there's the simple answer:

Chicks dig him, and guys want to be like him (which has a lot to do with the fact that the chicks dig him).

I think the fact that he is young is important. He doesn't fit the stereotype of the stodgy old professor. So the students probably think of him as being more 'hip', whatever 'hip' means in the thirties. And of course I think that the students have heard the 'rumors'; the rumors of what Professor Jones does when he's not up there in front of the black board.

He doesn't go to Daytona Beach for Spring Break.

[Canyon]

Thank you Monkey. It came to me last night.

I would also like to see more footage of Indy's lectures and I always enjoy writing the classroom scenes for my stories.

I agree with you. Indy does not fit the steriotype of a professor, and I'm sure that he would be considered to be 'hip' if indeed there were such a thing in the 30's. :D

[Finn]

Originally posted by Canyon
Hate is a very strong word. :mad:
Could someone tell this chick we're talking a <i>fictional</i> character here... :rolleyes: :p

[vaxer]

It's a little off topic but i never got why that guy gives them an apple when he leaves the class. I mean, what i strange thing to do.

[Attila the Professor]

Originally posted by vaxer
It's a little off topic but i never got why that guy gives them an apple when he leaves the class. I mean, what i strange thing to do.

It's one of those typically strange American customs - giving an apple to the teacher.

[vaxer]

Originally posted by Attila the Professor
Originally posted by vaxer
It's a little off topic but i never got why that guy gives them an apple when he leaves the class. I mean, what i strange thing to do.

It's one of those typically strange American customs - giving an apple to the teacher.

Really!? do you know where it comes from?

[Tom Jones]

"No but I'm sure you're going to tell me."- Quote from Indy in FOA :D

[Attila the Professor]

Here in America, we have traditions for everything. How to sleep, how to eat...how to work...how to succeed in school. For instance, we always keep our heads down, and always give apples to the teacher. This shows our constant devotion to education. Now you may ask,"how did this tradition get started?" Well, I'll tell you...I don't know. But it's a tradition.


;)

[00Kevin]

well, along with what you guys have pointed out:

he is an adventurer. I would assume that most of you females would more likely have dreams about someone if they are an adventurer. And the guys, well, I know that I and most of the guys on this forum, and in the world, would like to be an adventurer and go on quests

so basically It all comes to what monkey said:

Chicks dig him, and guys want to be like him

[Pale Horse]

To answer the apple question, it goes back to several passages from the Bible, the most common phrase occuring as "the apple of one's eye". Within the Torah, Jacob (who fathered the Isreal nation) is "instructed by the Lord, and kept as the apple of His eye"

This is how the apple on a teachers desk became a symbol of a student desiring to become more favorable to the professor.

Other stories relate the apple to the fruit that Adam and Eve partook of that gave them the "knowledge of good and evil" but no Biblical connection is made to the fruit actually being an apple, much less fruit in a nutritional sense.

Interesting spin off, though. Brody takes the apple meant for Indy (from the recently discovered Garden of Eden, and Russian students are secretly giving these apples to the top men of the U.S. because the Russians know that in order to win the growing Cold War, they have to kill off all the brillant minds the U.S. has to offer and he that doth eat of the fruit will surely die. Indy, realizing that Marcus has passed away as a result of a foiled assination plot, decides to avenge the death of his mentor and save the world from food poisoning. :D

As far as the professor thing goes...it's all about the field trips, baby~!

[VP]

I knew the apple thingy. I've grown up with Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge :D.