Surfing through the channels, you come across a man sporting a pimpin’ black-stripes-on-orange fedora, a shiny metallic blue shirt, white boxers and white socks while dancing around on stage. No, it’s not the latest episode of “The Jerry Springer Show,” it’s professor Robert Emerson teaching the TV-replay course Business Law.

It’s sometimes hard to believe that the guy in tutus and togas is a Harvard Law School graduate. Or that he’s won Teacher of the Year four times and was a finalist three other times.

Here’s a sampling of what students have said about Emerson in end-of-the-semester teacher evaluation forms:

“Keep taking those pills! If we all took whatever it is that you take, the world would be a happier place.”

“Please stop dancing and singing, my children are having nightmares.”

“The first time I saw him, I wondered why a dirty old bum was wandering into my test room.”

“Emerson has the ability to smoke crack, then teach a class.”
“Before this class, I had thought about going to law school after graduation. Not now. Thanks professor, I owe you one.”

“He’s a trip. And he has courage. That man has 1,000 students and he’s not afraid to make himself look like a fool in front of every single one of them.”

“His crazy style made me laugh, cry and crawl into a corner and shake.”

“There’s nothing like coming into Emerson’s class hung-over and thinking it’s a good dream.”

“It took weeks to recover from the shock value of the many ballet performances.”

“Professor Emerson is pathologically motivated and driven to excellence in teaching. If you took his teaching away from him, the voices in his head would stop telling him to teach and start telling him to kill. For God’s sake, make sure his tenure never ends!”