Vice-chancellor: female students are 'a perk'

[NotanOtter]

ha ha ha

only i for one aint laughing

where's Dittany when you need her?

I like old men

old, wrinkly and able to say "Do you know, I used to play Chess with John Wyndham!"

I am so easy

I do hate the attitude of "it's lighthearted" because the implication is that anyone who doesn't like it is in the wrong.

Black people are.... disabled people are...

Oh, what's wrong with you, it was a joke, it's only lighthearted...

It's like bullies who grind you down and when you complain, accuse you of having no sense of humour.

Hmm, the John Wyndham chess line is a killer. I can see why you were tempted, mp.

Giles Coren. Urgh.

MP, It's a good line, admittedly. Especially if it's true.

I'm worried that you are giving Nutty Professors a way into the knickers of young softy undergraduates here. They'll be vanity googling for sure.

There is no such thing as softy undergraduates anymore Quattro: they all turn up groomed, coiffed and hard-nosed.

hiya vulpus.

second your comment re the undergrads. it's bizarre.

Vulpus - I agree with that. After lecturing 5 years solid I was never propositioned once. Not that I was looking for it but it just doesn't happen. Not so much as a batted eyelid. Students are far too focussed.

SSorry for name change LOL, not designed to be inflammatory but inspired by a souvenitr rollercoaster mug in front of me now that belongs to my son- short of inspiration.

I recently graduated from a course partially run by a male Prof. Two students were noticeably after him- one a 45 year old mature student (he was 60+) whom he developed a non-sexual friendship over the three years, and one a stunningly pretty 21 year old who pursued him via stockinged thighs in lectures and the like.

Neither managed to secure a date (that I know of) but he did admit having got into trouble with it in the past, and had been warned he would have had to step aside from the course rather than be allowed to mark any essays etc if he had a relationship with anyone there- they couldn't just send these women's essays away as they practise anonymous marking.

Prof and the pretty-young-thing would have been a bizarre pairing tbh; but Prof and mature student was one that I think came very close to actually happening. I know full well the man whould never have marked anyone up for anything, he's a good and perhaps self-punishing (is it better to be alone facing retirement than to have a good partner and stand aside for a year?) moral man, but given that she missed a grade by a few points- I can see how a different (perhaps lesser ) man might have managed to influence that outcome,
and it is quite shocking to see it so evident how the system relies so heavily on the morals of one person- it could have turned out so very differently.

Dh was asked out by a student - having told me it was a preposterous notion, he came home quite embarrassed by the whole thing. It was just before we got married, and I think he just stammered that out and ran!

Dittany I was going to CAT you the answers behind that and explain who I am pre- name change but you don't accept CATs. I can't explain on MN becuase the info makes me very identifiable, and also I still have the Prof as my manager ina nother capacity so can't tae the risk.

But you are right- it wasn't professional, and it both came about and ended in unprofessional ways. Happy to elaborate via CAT but have tried to compose exlanation that doesn't make me identifiable without success.

You must have gone to an interesting college.

or mine

I must say that at my uni there was lots of staff fraternising - they were always popping around to our houses for coffee and lunch or dinner. Lots of them were very sweet.

I love this line from Quattro:
'I want to find out how many lecturers think that the girls are flaunting their curves at THEM and ONLY THEM. Call it unscientific research.'

There was plenty of opportunity for that sort of thing when I was at uni - I'm not sure why there is so much shock that there might be? If you're in a supervision 1:1 or 2:1 it can get a little, erm, cosy. Tho, I hasten to add, I had nothing to do with it.

I read that Giles Coren thing - I can't believe that there are women out there (let alone 17 of them) that are willing to sleep with that man. Ghastly flesh-creepingly grim sort of a man...

If you look for one of my colleagues on Facebook you find 3 student Facebook groups dedicated how saying how much they fancy him.
Pity they don't realise he's gay....

Did students really flash their stocking tops at professors at your university MP?

well in fairness, it was probably only me

I married my ex lecturer (now divorced)and agree there was imbalance of power even tho I was mature student. And relationship started after I graduated.

He had female students throwing themselves at him and I was witness to that. I think he had/has poor sense of boundaries.

I work in a different uni and my academic colleagues are very tuned in to the attractiveness or otherwise of the female students!!

RateMyProfessor.com allows students to say if their lecturer is "hot". Pretty vile, really.

Oh yes, I hate that, Habb. Thank goodness UK students aren't as keen on the site as American ones.
(mind you, I have sneaked a peek from time to time and been struck by the fact that practically every American academic I know has been rated as hot by someone.)

have been working at my university for 13 years and have never heard a member of staff comment on attractiveness or vice versa of student

nor ever heard a student comment or show any visible interest in the attractiveness of a member of staff

we're an unattractive bunch really

but we're good at our jobs

and we do mark blind - and everything is very carefully second-marked