soapbox

I just finished my online training in sexual harassment prevention. Despite the fact that I spent a half hour reading through the material, I feel like I know nothing more than I did before. In fact, I may be slightly dumber… Seriously though, how hard is it to recognize the blatantly obvious situations they come up with?

Speaking of that, two of the last five of my blog posts could be construed as sexual harassment.

Here’s a very interesting observation though. No where in the sexual harassment materials does it say that professors here can’t date students. You can’t trade sex for promotions/grades/whatever (and lack of “no” doesn’t imply “yes” given that the faculty are in a position of power) and you can’t walk around making suggestive comments. However, relationships with the consent of both parties are “imprudent” but not forbidden.

At Loyola, it was explicitly stated in the guidelines that relationships with students were firing offenses. Not at good old Whitman though. I should go talk to Prof. redacted.

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