CeilingCat
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| Quote (Occam's Aftershave @ June 14 2012,20:45) | | Quote (eigenstate @ June 14 2012,20:03) | So I scanned here a bit wondering if this was covered, but didn't see anything.
On the Matheson issue, I read this:
http://www.mlive.com/news.......ro.html
and while it appears the guy has a particularly acute lack of good judgment, a "multi-year sexual relationship" does NOT jibe with the kind of warning Sal is going on about.
It may have been inappropriate in terms of the policies of a fundamentalist religious school, but am I right in understanding that Sal is committed to getting the word out that this Matheson... monster might be engaging in consensual sexual relationships with adult members of the opposite sex, and the public needs to be warned about this?
This seems bizarre, even for Sal.
Or was there some allegation/evidence of assault/rape/abuse on Matheson's part that I've missed? |
I'm going to have to disagree on this one.
Misuse / abuse of the teacher-student relationship is an extremely serious violation of ethics and will get even a tenured professor fired at virtually every school in the country.
A number of years ago my then 18 year old niece was a freshman at a major midwestern U. when she became physically involved with her 40-something English professor. She was very immature and naive and was the victim of a predator. They had a year+ affair that only ended when the school found out about it and demanded the jerk's resignation. He was married with 3 kids, and it later came out that he was a serial womanizer who had numerous affairs with his freshman students over the years.
If screwed my niece up mentally big time, she ended up dropping out of school over it and drifting for years. Fortunately she's now married and has a normal life, but only after going through some serious shit.
If Matheson and this coed were serious he should have resigned, or she should have transferred to another school. Matheson is a good spokesman for science but he's going to have a hard time finding another teaching gig, and rightly so. |
And I'm going to have to agree with you. Although it's possible for such a relationship to be non-exploitive, it's far more likely to be so.
Except maybe at Faber College. "Knowledge is Good."
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