Sexes: Fighting Lechery on Campus

Feminists take action against professors who take liberties

The lecherous professor is a standard figure at most colleges, as much a part of the campus scene as ivy-covered brick or the statue of the founder. In one informal poll at a California college, a quarter of the faculty members said they had been sexually active with students, and another fourth said they would like to be. A more ambitious survey of American women with degrees in psychology reported that 10% of the women said they had had sexual contact with their educators. For women who earned those degrees in the past six...

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