The falling out the window seems to have been accident; my father remembers this professor as very eccentric. But I do recall being told by a friend about the first day of a Theater 101 class at Williams, the fall of my freshman year, in which a student was being very rude and obnoxious to the professor, who proceeded to pull out a gun, shoot him, and dismiss the class. It was of course staged, and this was 1979.