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> having had a relationship with a student If having a consensual relationship with a student is enough for firing tenured academics, I'm afraid that you'd hav
by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> having had a relationship with a student
If having a consensual relationship with a student is enough for firing tenured academics, I'm afraid that you'd have to fire many.
Students sleeping with professors seems to be not that uncommon. Probably more common than being gay, for example [1].
[1]: https://collegestats.org/explore/a-lust-for-learning/ https://collegestats.org/explore/a-lust-for-learning/
- foldr 4y agoI’d be perfectly happy for those academics to be fired, personally. But as the article I linked to explained, this goes far beyond a single consensual relationship. (And to say it’s ‘consensual’ is just to say that he’s not a rapist - big whoop. It’s still an abuse of power.) No idea what you are trying to say with the comparison to the number of people who are gay. Being gay is not a violation of any of Princeton’s policies, or of generally accepted standards of professional behavior. As a former academic who managed to avoid having sex with my students by the simple expedient of, err, refraining from doing it using the the self control skills that I learned in 6th grade, I have exactly zero sympathy for these creeps and losers who serially hit on their students.