News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:51AM (#9725732)
You wouldn't think 'don't fuck your undergrads' would be as controversial a statement as it is.
Re:Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe by jseliger on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:07AM (#9725866)
You wouldn't think an alternate perspective like "People, including undergrads, should be free to do what they want" would as controversial a statement as it is, but neither your statement nor mine are fully germane because they're broad principles that don't necessarily cover the minutia of every situation.

My (abandoned) dissertation was on academic novels, and one thing I found interesting is the way feminists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s fought relentlessly to argue that women were adults who could make their own choices, sexual and otherwise, and didn't need institutions to act like their parents. Lynn Peril's book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now has an okay but not great account of this.

Sometime in the 80s or 90s, though, the script flipped, and now there is a small but loud minority calling for colleges to do the thing a lot of women wanted colleges not to do! For those of us with a sense of history, the results are entertaining.

Re:Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe by moridinamael on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:59AM (#9725781)
I still chuckle to recall my friends in grad school who TA'ed being told by professors, quote, "Don't fuck your students."