Now asking what a section man is with this subject header hurts, but I'm not far from it... A Section Man is actually a graduate instructor who covers a section of a large course tuaght by professors. The negative spin comes from those who promote their worthless ideas as academic gold. More generally "Section Man" (or woman I suppose) has become associated with how professors professionalize themselves by milking their fields for academic flotsam and jetsum. I don't think Buddy Glass could illustrate the term, but Lane C will do, or will, if you have to...