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craazyman's avatar

The most amazing thing is that a student's single unsubstantiated Twitter post could produce a cascade that degenerates into a ritual public shaming and inquisition. That's a serious institutional failure on NYU's part and a personal ethical failure on the part of its leadership. They should have in place an administrative process that handles student complaints privately -- with step 1 being a fair finding of fact. Students should be asked to use that process, not make claims on Twitter as a first resort. If that process fails, then fine, go to Twitter. But claims made first on Twitter and without due process should be ignored by the university. Any university worth its tuition should do this.

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What's really astonishing is that one boneheaded student can create such a kerfuflle. Where's the leadership in academia to ferret out this nonsense or to at least sit this chick down and give her a lesson in exactly why she's attending university, ie to hone her analytical skills & writing and not to hound the faculty with her snowflake sensitivities. Where are the adults??

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