Post: unbelievable!
Posted by: Alexandra on 6/19/09
I find it astonishing that the very institutions that stand
for freedom and diversity of thought -- our colleges and
universities -- now seek to ban certain types of personal
relations between adults.
What is so special about the relationship between a
graduate student or professor and an adult student?
Certainly the power of the former over the latter is
trivial compared with the power that, say, a factory
manager has over an assembly-line worker. Why have our
colleges and universities gone far beyond other
environments in proscribing certain relationships?
The tone in which this issue is discussed is demeaning to
women in that it assumes a relationship between a female
student and a male faculty member must be sinister. If the
young women of today are so unable to reject unwanted
advances from faculty members (who, after all, can only
give them a low grade), how will they fare once they
graduate and encounter men who have real power over them?
My husband and I met at the University of Chicago when I
was a student and he an associate professor. Our 11-year-
old daughter would find it incredible that a relationship
like ours could have consequences today if brought to the
university's attention
Posts on this thread, including this one
- unbelievable!, 6/19/09, by Alexandra.
- Re: unbelievable!, 6/19/09, by bernoulli.
