Seduction in the Academy

by Chris Cumo PBS ESSAYIST ROGER Rosenblatt fears in “Hello Mr. Chips” that the rise of universities.com will end “the tawdry, yet elevated professor-student affair.” He need not worry, for no on-line college can compete with the hormones that saturate campus life. “Of course professors are sleeping with their students,” Joanne Cavell told Cosmopolitan, with all the nonchalance of a senior at Fordham University who has seen it all. “Student-teacher affairs are rampant on most campuses, and there’s very little discretion practiced,” said Doretta Mattamira, a student at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania. But how rampant is rampant? Lisa Capone, who […]