The constant presence of the chicken pox virus your body puts you at risk for shingles, and that is really bad news.

Could be. HIST395 is listed as a special topics course. In Spring 2010 he was listed as teaching HIST497 - which is also a special topics course. Maybe the student was in that course. According to the course listing 497 that term was on Early America, which might by an expansive definition cover U. S. military history up to the present. Unfortunately the course syllabus does not seem to be on line.

The catalog listed courses for fall-winter-spring-summer which led me to think they had a quarter system, but I looked at the academic calndar and found that the winter term was only a couple of weeks long: they are indeed on a semester system.

I looked at RateMyProfessors.com to see if any students had commented on a military history course he taught in early 2010, and then went to the CCSU catalog to check those course numbers.

I cannot see that he taught any "military history" course at all. The courses he taught just seem to be standard American history courses; in fact I couldn't find any military history course in the catalog of course offerings.

It's also odd that he referred to "last semester" because CCSU seems to be on a quarter system. My university (Ohio State) is on a quarter system and I would never refer to any course I taught as having been in such-and-such a "semester".

The comment thread at the Chronicle is pretty interesting - there are quite a few comments along the line of "Good God, Chronicle editors, what were you thinking?".

By the way, there were some students at ratemyprofessors saying that his personality is rather strange.