Calling the Usual Suspects: Sex, Lies, Lawsuits and Tenure: This One Has It All.

[Nice Squirrel]

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professor-a-Graduate/231007/

The first time the young woman wound up in Peter Ludlow’s bedroom was during a party at his apartment held by Northwestern University’s philosophy department. In the luxury high-rise, with its expansive view of the Chicago skyline, Mr. Ludlow and his colleagues wined and dined prospective graduate students. He was a star professor in the department, and she had just earned her master’s degree.

"He brought me into his bedroom, where his printer was, and he was printing off all of this unpublished work that he said nobody else had read, and he said, ‘Send me all your half-cooked ideas,’" recalls the woman, who was shocked that such a prominent philosopher would share so much. She had an interest in epistemology, one of the professor's areas of expertise.

Mr. Ludlow says there was nothing unusual about his behavior. Showing a prospective graduate student unfinished work, he says, is "textbook."

The student started the Ph.D. program at Northwestern the next fall, in 2011. Within a month or so, she was spending several evenings a week at his apartment. They drank bottles of red wine on the balcony and debated ideas about the theory of knowledge, scrawling on the floor-to-ceiling windows. They slept in the professor’s bed.

She was 25 and had a serious boyfriend who lived in Boston. Mr. Ludlow was 54 and had a history of dating young women.

The professor and the graduate student agree on those details. Everything else about the nature of their relationship is disputed.

 

[ksen]

The answer to this conundrum is obviously tax cuts.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The answer to this conundrum is obviously tax cuts.

I'd say pay walls.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Oh there is a pay wall? Then sorry.

Basically it it a long "he said" - "she said" story and the Full Professor has lost his endowed chair and will probably be fired. He has a history of dating students.

 

[ksen]

So did Donald Sutherland.