So this week a friend of mine got academically cornered, bitch slapped you might say. She was in what was supposed to be a lab meeting. While in the lab meeting, he supervisor and co-supervisor asked her if she minded if it could be counted as a committee meeting and impromptu, the meeting was turned immediately into one of her bi-yearly committee meetings, even though her other committee members were not there and she had no time to prepare for said meeting.In addition to what I view as this being altogether inappropriate, somehow, at the end of this meeting my friends supervisor managed to tell her lab-mates/co-workers that she had not been working hard enough, and deserved a "spanking". Can you imagine?!?!
I believe that my friend has a serious case for harassment. I know her boss well. He used to come to my office - usually around 8 in the evening when I was working late and everyone had already left the school, and tell me how lovely my hair looked and ask me if I had "done something different". The funniest and most pathetic thing about this man is that the whole time he would be staring right at my breasts. He is a creep. My whole institution is full of them. It is something about academia - especially the second and third-rate schools in the country. It is like they are so desperate to attract people with talent that they will overlook their social flaws. Even if those flaws are what any respectable school/organization finds despicable.
I have had it up to here with this second rate institution allowing the predators to roam with students. My school is notorious for installing a Non-academic misconduct policy (NAMP), which it has given a face lift - it is now called the "Charter of Student Rights" but it still lays the framework for what is considered acceptable and normal adult behaviour if you are to attend our school as a student and be a functional part of our community. The biggest joke is that sooner than later one of these spoiled rich kids will be bullied and sexually harassed so badly by one of our sick-ass professors that they will sue the pants off this place and the school will realize that they should have made a NAMP for their professors! Oh well, by then I will be long gone and able to help the students... and I promise my experiences here will never be forgotten but only strengthen my resolve to fight for student rights across Canada against backwards policies that protect old men and their perversions.
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