HSU Faculty Member Accused of Soliciting Paid Sex From Multiple Students
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Humboldt State University has expanded its investigation into allegations that a faculty member may have solicited paid sex from multiple students.
The safety and well-being of the campus community is extremely important. The investigation follows anonymous reports received by the University last Thursday. Significant progress has been made since the allegations first surfaced. Given the severity of the allegations, the University has taken precautionary steps in order to protect students from harm.
Because this investigation involves University personnel, the information the University will be able to share about outcomes will vary. Findings and actions involving personnel matters are highly confidential.
The University encourages anyone who may have been harmed to seek assistance through the following campus support services.
- Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) provides a variety of support services. You may make an appointment by calling (707) 826-3236. If you are having a crisis, you may reach a CAPS therapist 24 hours a day at the same number (707) 826-3236.
- The Campus Advocate Team (CAT) is an on-campus resource for students, staff, and faculty at HSU. CAT is a program of the North Coast Rape Crisis Team, a private nonprofit organization that has been contracted by HSU to provide specialized services to the HSU community. CAT provides 24-hour, confidential support to any HSU student, staff, or faculty who wants to talk about harm they’ve survived (sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, stalking), or explore their options for support and/or holding accountable the person who harmed them. CAT can be reached at (707) 445-2881, 24 hours a day. On-campus appointments are available.
- The Dean of Students Office can help students navigate the steps of any reporting process and provide support and advocacy while navigating a formal complaint, as well as helping students find resources on- and off-campus to best meet their needs. You can reach the office at (707) 826-3504.
- Human Resources handles staff employment as well as Title IX matters and can be reached at (707) 826-3626. Academic Personnel Services handles employment and related responsibilities for faculty, and can be reached at (707) 826-5086.
The University also requests that anyone with information report it to one of the offices listed below. The Title IX Office helps students navigate accountability and accommodation for incidents of harm. The University Police Department, which operates from a trauma-informed perspective, assists with accountability and responds to reports of criminal activity.
- Title IX Office, David Hickcox at office (707) 826-5177, cell (707) 296-4032, or [email protected].
- University Police Department at (707) 826-5555.
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Good on HSU for reporting it immediately rather than covering it up. This is exactly how incidents like this should be handled.
Call the sheriffs! You’ll get nowhere the the campus police…
What they said! Campus police just want to sweep things under the rug to keep good face for the university and keep rape and assault statistics down. Go to the local police
Call APD, CHP and FBI. I doubt the sheriff will do anything. There’s an entire ring of sex predators behind the Humboldt establishment. The County victim witness building sits across from the Court house on 5th to discourage victims from coming forward. Never seen anything like this anywhere. Epstein and company would have loved Humboldt. It’s a real Oasis for sex traffickers.
Wow…you’re well informed! Have you attempted to report this to the authorities before???
Lacking in empathy right here. Sheesh.
Fluid gender studies professor?
Is that what the ink blot on the Rorschach Test looks like to you? Why don’t you tell us all about it, Festus.
Lacking in empathy.
That darn Mrs. Crabtree.
Kym, lacking in empathy right here.
Hahahaha, thanks for self proclaimed leading the nation on the liberal front Arcata. Me personally I don’t care what happens between two consenting adult but my opinion isn’t the point now is it?
No. Clearly your only point is to get your daily lib-bashing in. Feel better now [edit]?
Eunice, do you feel better now getting that out? Big hugs dear.
Interesting that there is a press release.
We hope there is a careful investigation, and that there is clear documentation of whatever occurred.
There are many options for reporting and counseling, but when it comes right down to it, it’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove…
We hope that nobody came to actual physical harm, and the best way to handle an abuser, is with voice recordings, photos, and video. Report incidents promptly. Document encounters carefully.
If someone is making you uncomfortable, the fastest way to deal with it is to say:
“You are making me uncomfortable, and I want you to stop it”.
Be safe, be well…
Students sleeping with a professor??? What a SHOCKER!!!
How else is one suppose to understand “business”. I bet they were working on their Masters.
I pray for the survivors! The horrors of being solicited for sex. Scum
Bag.
Mocking youth who are understandably confused when a teacher asked them to perform an illegal act is…lacking in empathy.
How do you know they’re youth? Most students at HSU are of the “youth” age of 18. So, if you are referring to me as “lacking in empathy” you would be dead wrong. In addition, you have many posters that are lacking in empathy here so go bark up another tree.
If you are the “Guest” who stated that comment, then, yes, I am speaking to you.
I don’t know that those allegedly solicited are youth but “The United Nations defines youth as persons between the ages of 15 and 24” and HSU has the vast majority of students between that age. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/humboldt-state-university/student-life/diversity/#secAge
You may have empathy in some situations but you failed to impress me with it here. Young feller, I once was a pretty young thing and my college professor asked me to pose nude for his painting. I never attended his class again. I fully admit to not responding correctly in that situation but…I’m not overly impressed with the professor’s behavior either. I suspect that should this situation have been reported correctly, then there are student(s) who are shook up.
Being solicited for sex may sound delightful but it rarely is when there is a huge power difference.
Now some of those commenters you accused of lacking empathy, may be. But I find your comment more lacking in empathy for the victims then theirs. I wonder how you would feel if one of your daughter’s professors offered them $100 to have sex with him.
In the early 1970’s, there were a couple of sex incidents involving college teachers and students in southern Calif. The women were solicited for sex. The boyfriends paid a visit to the “teachers”, and, had a “talk” with them, which included getting physical, and the teachers left. In those days there were consequences for being a fuckup. The consequences are gone now, and predators are allowed to prey on the innocents. We would like to see a return to consequences for a predators actions. Confront them and harass them, push them around, let them know they are sick fucks and will not be tolerated. Stop them in the parking lot at school, surround them, don’t let them out of their car. Self police. These same students who are being preyed upon would, at the same time, use violence to harass a person on your campus wearing a MAGA hat. Why do you ignore or allow predation on the vulnerable on your campus, but go after a hat? The more you allow these asshole to prey, the more they will, and you snowflakes are the reason why.
I can’t find any articles about MAGA hat people being “harassed” in Arcata, but this sounds suspiciously like special pleading from a snowflake. Does the first amendment go out the window when people are criticizing YOUR choice of headgear?
If there was a camera in the mix it would have been perfectly legal… go figure.
Well a camera and a permit. Wait that’s for porn not prostitution
It is, of course, not ETHICAL, for anyone in a position of power to sexually solicit people below them on the pecking order.
Bill Clinton is on record of abusing his power. It’s not ethical but it’s not like it’s never happened before.
He lied to congress, too. Set a terrible president. He’s as much to blame for our decent towards fascism as Bush.
Try and stay on subject Jackelope. Sheesh! Just like a liberal to go off track and get lost.
I got off track… By agreeing with you? Are you feeling okay? Do you smell burnt toast?
I dont smell burnt toast but I do feel a sharp boot in my arse. Sorry, my apologies. It didnt come across as such. Carry on.
“Set a terrible president” – you did that on purpose, didn’t you?
Grab ’em by the….wait, that wasn’t Clinton…
No, silly, that was Monica’s mother when they found the blue dress. “Grab em by the balls”
Bill Clinton would be an expert on that topic.
All of a sudden the school cares I been dealing with a sexual assault case and they swept my case underneath the rug. But good for them for seeking justice wish we all could get the same
Drain the swamp. Trump 2020…Winning.
It’s a matter of public record that Trump pays for sex.
Well there you go. It’s a twofer. Two for one. Keeping the economy booming and keeping the unemployment down.
Isn’t Trump a great businessman?! Why yes, he is!
Peter, It sounds like you confuse CON man with business man. Yes, trump is a great con man. Just ask all the businesses and individuals he’s defrauded. He has been ordered to repay many millions of dollars to his victims over the past few years. He’s had his supposed nonprofit charitable foundation dissolved by courts for more fraud on his part. Yes, great business, oops con man.
I’m not talking your little fish fry at home. I’m talking huge 401k returns! The economy is booming! Employment is up! Our defense companies that have put people back to work are making it big. And socialists are not going to get any of that money because the working people have worked hard for it. What’s mine is not yours and it never will be. You can say all you want about Trump but he is still winning. And we love him. We really like him. You are just jealous. KEEP AMERICA GREAT.
No, what’s yours will be slowly taken and moved up the food chain while you slowly stew like the proverbial boiled frog. That’s how it has been working since the early ’70’s under all administrations. You get the trickle down, and that keeps your eyes wide and your mouth open. Now, got grab some pussy. It’s O.K. Your leader says they want it.
Bingo.
That was a disgusting use of the English language trini. But guess what? President Trump is still your President.
Ya, no. Just like that black guy that drove all the neocon white nationalists berserk for eight years. They never accepted him. Yet he never did a thing to “take away mah gunz.” The dunce in the white house just searches for anything instituted under Obama so he can claim “he ended it” for the klan that supports him. You know, there seems to be a strong possibility that this presidential mistake in Washington is going to foment a shift in the orther direction wayyy beyond centrist. Just because he’s such a lying dirtbag. Watch out for that. That’ll make your head explode when Bernie takes the White House. Just sayin’. I don’t really care. I’ll be killin’ mahi tuna and wahoo between 12N and 18N.
Like we care. 🖐🏻
Bernie is a Marxist pig. The Dem[edit]Rats doomed themselves with the coup attempt (aka faux impeachment). As for HSU, every student 18+ is an adult, not a “youth.” Expect scumbag profs at a Maoist diploma mill. No ethics, no morals, no pants!
Seriously, if it’s a lesbian she is perfectly safe. Knew a lesbian manager on campus who preyed on students for years. Many complaints, ZERO done. That’s HSU for you.
You don’t know what Marxist means.
“We will give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for…” -Bernie Sanders
“The secret of the expression of value, namely, that all kinds of labour are equal and equivalent, because, and so far as they are human labour in general, cannot be deciphered, until the notion of human equality has already acquired the fixity of a popular prejudice. This, however, is possible only in a society in which the great mass of the produce of labour takes the form of commodities, in which, consequently, the dominant relation between man and man, is that of owners of commodities.”
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)
“There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.”
Groucho Marx
Siezing the means of production through violent revolution≠Collective Bargining
When the government is involved in pushing policy in the acquisition of private property, violence is always implied.
“We will give [the government will take] workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for…” -Bernie Sanders
I would be interested in seeing long term economix effects of a government imposed 7:1 ratio of executive to worker pay.
No, 7:1 is too close.
Maybe like 16:1
So if the lowest paid worker at a business is making 15$ hourly grossing 28k a year – the executive will make no more than 460k (16×28k) a year.
The only way to make more $ as an executive is to give more raises to the lowest paid workers.
You are perhaps the worst example of an American I have seen on here. And thats saying something.
Some people care more for their precious 401k than thay care that a con-man and his family actually rip off a kids cancer charity, lie, and claim “absolute power”. (Among hundreds of other disgusting things they do). Yet you are fine with all of it! You should get outside and talk to someone real son.
You know that is true. Some people do care more for achieving financial independence than for leeching off others.
@Eunice…Still winning! 😉
The platform for Trump 2020:
1)Rake forest.
2)Put gasoline into big rigs.
3)Sharpie the weather.
4)Covfefe.
This is winning.
Fake news. But no thanks for your effort. President Trump is still your President.
Now THAT is funny! Just lie about it, call it “fake.” See? He’s got these monkeys trained. America has become the land of consumers, and all the monkey in chief has to do is lie to them and get them to repeat the lie over and over. I think this is a riot.
You’re right, the “This is winning”
statement is fake news.
Good eye mate!
https://kymkemp.com/2020/02/17/hsu-faculty-member-accused-of-soliciting-paid-sex-from-multiple-students/#comment-971110
Winning!
It’s weird that you think that.
He’s the 3rd President to be impeached.
The midterm elections were a huge defeat to the Republican party.
https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-democrats-won-house-biggest-margin-a56a1049-8823-4667-8d81-2c67ef3f36f4.html
His administration has a higher turnover rate than any other, with an 82% turnover rate for “A Team” officials.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/
Military brass are fed-up.
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/598360/
Right wing extremism, like neoNAZIs, are on the rise.
https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
This is not winning.
Even if Trump wins 2020, America and the Republican party loses.
If the economic cycle that Trump is riding ends, what will you defend him with?
Trump would be very hard to work for, having never learned from experience what most politicians learn early, that bureaucracies have a passive aggressive way of ensuring their own power. And came into the Presidency without having previously developed a network of bureaucrats as support AND having a basic anti bureaucrat agenda. That he feels he has a mandate to eliminate various entrenched bureaucracies comes because he was elected based on promising to do so. Indeed he is making it up as he goes along without much collaboration as the only consensus in goverment is aligned against him. That does not make the forces against him right- just powerful. They are pretty much autocratic bastards too. Just autocratic bastards in smaller ways. They have tried to sink him like they sunk Jimmy Carter and Nixon and Bush only to discover that embarrassing him did not get the effect they were looking to get.
If he wins a second term, look out. He has learned it’s him against the forces of what he considers stupidity and will have learned how to ignore them. As it is there are no serious challengers on the horizon as they have all treated Trump like political chum in the water and greedily fallen victims to it themselves. If there isn’t a deus ex machina for the Democrats, they will continue on their useless path. They need to find a hero but,having complained loudly over every thing Trump is or does, they can’t seem to find one who is not hurt just as much by their own words. That is what happens when your only tactic is loud name called. Oh well. America has been dpsaved before by heroes. It could happen again but it will be despite the liberals.
As for Sanders-
Bernie has alot to talk about being a con man. Educate yourself.
Better yet maybe go try asking Peter Pan or Pocahontas about what it is to be a con.
If the age of 24 is the new cutoff age for “youth”, as kym states, then the law should reflect that.
No drivers liscence, no right to vote until your 25.
And Who is the school teacher in question?
Why no name?
College really is the new highschool, especially considering that adulthood doesn’t start till 25.
🕯🌳Unconscious bias/racism with a dash of political bigotry. 👍🏽🇺🇸🖖🇺🇸🇺🇸All for the “MAN” .🐸🐎
I’m sure I would object to what you’re saying if I just knew what it was.
Instead of little pictures maybe possibly using words so we can all understand what it is your trying to say.
Attack me for saying this but…Here we are again with the uncomfortable dilemma- If a female is equal to a male and adulthood begins at 18 then she should be capable of turning down offers and propositions for her sex. If she is not and is a victim of her own poor decisions then you are saying she is not an adult- and that males are also not adults at 18! Because we insist that men and women are equal. This does not apply to rape or assault of course. Just HER decision to sell her sex, share her sexuality or NOT. Please help me understand what we are supposed to do? I believe women are equal to men, that they are strong enough to make their own decisions and that they have every right to bargain with their sex if that’s what they choose. Or is it that we think it’s okay to send 18 year olds into war yet we need to oversee their sexual choices? Or that guys are more mature than gals? What are we saying?!!
This is an issue of a college employee violating their terms of employment, and probably the terms of their teaching credentials.
Well, first we’re not clear that this is a male female thing. The University hasn’t stated that.
However, I would say, if accurate, this is a power differential thing. If you have a professor offering to pay a student for sex in an ideal world the student would say no. The professor would say I understand and all would be well. But in the real world a student is often fearful of how the teacher’s reaction could affect grades, and if grades are affected then that could affect scholarships, etc. Plus young people often don’t know how to deal with uncomfortable situations and can retreat from dealing with the situation.
I’m glad you are comfortable your daughters are completely able to handle these sorts of situations. Not everyone is though.
I am the son of two longtime professors that were employed at HSU. My father told me long ago that he was regularly approached by his female students about sex (when he was young and handsome). He told me he politely refused them all, telling them that while they were certainly attractive, it would be inappropriate. He was an ethical man.
The idea of any professor asking any student for paid sex is not acceptable. The environment at HSU is supposed to be safe. That means everyone is safe; not just liberals or conservatives, not just men or women, gay or straight, but everyone.
When a woman or man offers to solicit sex, as in prostituting themselves, they know the actions they are taking, which are illegal. When men (or women) offer money to women (or men) for sex, it is illegal. It is an entirely different situation than this one is. The question in this case is not if it is legal. It’s is it unethical, and should it be allowed to happen at an institution like HSU? This case sounds like it is a violation that should not be allowed to go unpunished, or unaddressed.
All teachers should be held to a high standard with students. It’s a matter of ethics. While it might be legal to do something, it is not always acceptable or ethical to do it.
As a department head in an isolated job situation I was given specific training in this area. It was called sexual harassment back then, and we were all told that while it may or may not be legal to engage in sex with someone we had direct control over, it was sexual misconduct, and was not tolerated. Job termination was the punishment for this type of behaviour. The professor in this case should be placed on leave while the investigation takes place, and an appropriate punishment applied when completed. This professor has put HSU at liability for his or her actions, and how HSU handles this case going forward will show everyone just how serious they (HSU) take this kind of infraction.
Guess the new HSU president has his work cut out for him.
O.k. , Over It. You asked.
Next time you want to put women “in their place” by saying a woman shouldn’t play the game because they are not equal, remember there is nowhere the game is not played. A woman can be targeted whether she is smarter than you, better educated, more talented, wiser, kinder. If she hides, she will be found. If she doesn’t, she will be targeted. She simply has to exist and some jackass, no matter how inferior in every other respect, will fall back to out muscling her. Because the stupid think that way and there are a fair number of stupids in the world.
The way it is,
thanks.
In the pursuit of the 4 F’s, Mankind has developed an incredibly sharp double edged sword.