Facul-Tea, technical talk or an easy avenue for Experience Driven-Junkies?

The date was February 5,2009. Tea and soda, raspberry danishes and sugar cookies, all are presented on black trays as the professor sets up his laptop and projection machine readying himself for his lecture. The Gingrich library has made way in both study rooms on its second floor for the immense crowd that would follow to hear of the research that this professor studied during his sabbatical. This is the Facul-Tea and this was Dr. Nawrocki's lecture on networking simulations for wireless networks.
A professor is allowed to take on a sabbatical after seven years of teaching and for only one semester, to study a field that they find interesting. After the semester is finished the professor must present how they've spent their time off and what they've learned.
The Facul-Tea has been at Albright for three to four years, still fairly recent, said Miss Rosemary L. Deegan, the director of the Gingrich library, it was made to allow the professor who's just come off sabbatical to show the students what they've learned.
"It's a nice venue for faculty to show students what they're doing," said Dr. Nawrocki, "It really makes their topics more understandable to a general audience."
The small group allows the professor to take the audience's minds beyond the classroom. This alone allows the Facul-Tea to be considered an Experience Credit because it opens the minds of the students to new things.
Dr. Nawrocki researched online journals, and papers and even referenced textbooks to get a thorough knowledge and understanding of networking simulations for wireless networks. For his Tea session he demonstrated his methods, using graphs, columns, linear algebra, and diverse types of algorithms, to solve a game of Lights Out.
Larryl Damon, a member of the large crowd that couldn't fit in the two rooms said, "I learned that the game Lights Out can be solved through complex mathematical equations, for example, he used difficult matrices."
Though the Facul-Tea could be one of the most educational experience events on campus, could it be that most students are only going to receive experience credit?
When asked why they went to the experience event, all of the responses were the same:
"I needed experience credits and I wanted some food."
"I needed experience credit, and I was starving."
After getting answers such as these it seems folly to believe that anyone is coming to learn anything, but the Director of Gingrich library believes differently, "There are a number coming for experience, but others come because it is their field that was being studied. These are interested in the lecture itself, they don't get any of the green experience cards."
Dr. Nawrocki, said that it didn't bother him that some students just came for the experience credit. "If two or three people found it worth while, then it was worth it."