Classicist Clifford Ando (Chicago) excorciates Princeton and its President, Christopher Eisgruber, in many respects quite rightly; an excerpt:
Princeton is not particularly interested in violations of policy in respect to sex between professors and undergraduates. For example, so far as I can tell, no effort has been made to survey students (or professors) as to whether any other professor, in classics or any other department, had sex with students — in that era or earlier or more recently. (I graduated from the department in 1990, and have consulted with a cross-section of alumni and alumnae of my own and other generations.) It is worth remembering that the first investigation of Katz was conducted and concluded without comment from the student in the relationship. On the contrary, the first investigation appears to have been motivated by, and satisfied with, the testimony, on the complainant side, only of a student (or more than one) from the period of the relationship. On that standard, the university could and should survey all students as to whether they know of any relationship that they deem inappropriate, even one that is consensual and not in violation of Title IX. But Princeton is not interested in protecting students from inappropriate conduct by professors, if its choice not to know is any indication. The invocation of policy and imposition of punishment in this case appears to have had another cause.
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