A professor wishes for less ruly students

Paul Nadler, a professor emeritus of business at Rutgers University, writes a column for The Secured Lender, a magazine published by the Commercial Finance Association and directed at the asset-based lending industry.  Most of his columns deal with questions of interest to asset-based lenders, such as acquiring and keeping collateral and detecting deadbeat debtors early, but once or twice a year he tells war stories.  He started this year with "Tales from the Classroom," including this perception of how college students have changed.  He writes:

College classrooms are not the fun they used to be.  Students have become too docile.  It used to be that I would say, "My name is Paul Nadler," and the students would chant,"Prove it."  Now when I say my name is Paul Nadler, they respond, "Do I have to know this for the final?"