Allen Ginsberg once declared that “the best teaching is done in bed,” but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships between faculty members and students, and professors who transgress are usually out of a job. In Romance in the Ivory Tower, Paul Abramson takes aim at university policies that forbid relationships between faculty members and students. He argues provocatively that the issue of faculty-st… More >>
Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
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#1 by D. P. Birkett on February 3, 2010 - 9:36 pm
It’s a strange quirky little book, mainly useful I think to anyone involved in defending a case of academic sexual impropriety. I opened it thinking “how can anyone possibly justify such a practice? (professors having romantic relationships with students) but after a few pages I thought “maybe he has a point.” Then I began wondering how anyone could write a whole book on such a topic but as I read on and found him digressing brilliantly about the rules of soccer, Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists, eighteenth century Philadelphia, the Mormons, and Freud’s theories I was charmed and kept turning the pages.
Rating: 3 / 5