No Hottest Professor list would be complete without Ivo Jansen’s name right at the top. The Dutchman came to the U.S. for his MBA and, lucky for us, decided to stay.

He is tall, slim, and blonde with an angular jaw and bright blue eyes. But his hottest feature is his sense of humor. He always starts out class by asking students, by name, their best story from the past weekend. He laces his lectures with jokes and when he sees students’ eyes begin to glaze over, he immediately changes the subject away from accounting to drag the class back in before he continues with the lesson.

Proof of his excellent teaching ability? Most students raise their grade a full step from Financial Accounting, the class that Jansen teaches, to Managerial Accounting, taken the following semester. I, on the other hand, dropped from an A- to a C+ when I no longer had Ivo’s lovely smile to engage me in the world of debits and credits. Oh well, it wasn’t meant to be; I am now an English major but still look back oh so fondly on afternoons in Accounting.

Posted by Kathryn Brand, Contributing Editor

A day after calling President Bush the devil at the UN General Assembly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called him an “alcoholic” and a “sick man” at a church in Harlem, according to the Washington Post.

He got a round of applause from a crowd that included activists, supporters and Danny Glover.

Chavez announced that Citgo, the US-based refining arm of Venezuelas’s state-run oil company, is going to more than double its sales of discounted heating oil to America’s poor this winter.

But Bush-haters shouldn’t be Chavez-lovers.

Today, the Venezuelan populist is entertaining because he antagonizes President Bush. He calls him names like “El Diablo” and “Mr. Danger.” He hosted the “Anti-Summit” of the Americas in Argentina last November to protest Bush and a hemispheric free trade zone.

But Chavez has been eroding his country’s democratic institutions since he came to power in 1998. He supports the dangerous Iranian regime and is trying to economically and politically pull the Western Hemisphere apart.

He’s not only bad for President Bush – he’s bad for the United States as a whole. He shouldn’t be invited to U.S. churches. He should just shut his trap.

Posted by Keenan Steiner, Staff Writer