Academia gone overboard....again

Just read this story from Pennsylvania. Two students engage in sex acts in front of an open window, another student takes photos and puts them up on a website. Guess who faced disciplinary charges? The one who posted the photos, for sexual harassment. It was deemed hate speech. Susequently the charges were dropped.

All three students in this affair are wrong. The Univ. of PA though has a warped Politically correct view of the world. Or do warped and PC go together? As my wife often says- The World has gone insane.

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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania dropped disciplinary charges Thursday against a student who posted photos he took of a naked couple apparently having sex in front of an upper-story dorm room window.

The student, a junior engineering major, had been accused by the Ivy League school of violating its code of student conduct and policies on sexual harassment and acceptable uses of electronic resources.

Representatives of the university's Office of Student Conduct met with the photographer Thursday and said they were dropping the charges, said Andrew Geier, a graduate student who was advising the underclassman and attended the meeting with him.

"They realized their position was untenable, that they didn't have a case," Geier said.

In a statement, Penn said it was disturbed by the photographer's actions and concerned that the dissemination of the photos caused embarrassment to the couple. It asked the photographer to offer an apology.

"I don't think he has any intention of doing that," Geier said.

The proposed discipline had included a mark on the student's college record and a requirement that he write a letter of apology and an essay reflecting on what he did wrong.

"The student has the right to take a picture and post it on his password-protected site, which is exactly what he did," Geier said. He declined to identify the student.

"He's relieved, and he feels vindicated to some extent, too," Geier said. "There's been a huge groundswell of support for the student and against the university."

The couple in the photos, taken earlier this fall, was standing in front of an upper-story dorm room window. Their faces were not identifiable.

The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, wrote an editorial Thursday comparing the case to a 1993 episode that embarrassed Penn and sparked national debate about free speech and political correctness on college campuses.

In that incident, a white student yelled from his dormitory window to a group of black women who were making noise: "Shut up, you water buffalo."

The student was charged with racial harassment under the university's hate-speech policy. Charges were later dropped.

"For a university that is not unfamiliar with issues of free speech, the heavy-handedness of the disciplinarians involved is excessive," The Daily Pennsylvanian editorial stated. It also accused Penn of "strong-arming a student simply for having poor taste."