Wednesday, March 19, 2008

So you think your advisor is tough?

From "Inside Higher Ed"

A deputy provost at the University of New Mexico has determined that no ethics review is needed of a professor who posed with a graduate student on a sadomasochism Web site, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Some faculty members had demanded an investigation, saying that they were not objecting to the professor’s decision to pose for the site, but her decision to do so with a graduate student. But the administrative inquiry, while finding “poor judgment” by the professor, found that no university funds or equipment were used, and that the graduate student participation was entirely voluntary, and so there were not grounds for further review.