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Message to Faculty Sexual Harassers - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
 

This message is intended for any college or university faculty member who has engaged in sexual harassment/sexual misconduct with students, is currently engaged in such activities, or plans to do so in the future.
 

Let me be the first to emphatically inform you that your unlawful, outrageous conduct will no longer be tolerated. Sexual harassment represents an illegal violation of a student's civil rights and is a cowardly abuse of your professorial power.
 

As a shameless sexual predator who exploits students for your own personal gain, you have irrevocably violated the trust that students and parents have placed in you and the university. You are a disgrace to the professoriat and a horrible blight on the teaching profession.
 

By your unlawful actions and lack of respect for fundamental student civil rights, you have forfeited your right to be a faculty member. You are a menace to the welfare of any student you come in contact with.
 

My advice to you is very simple. Change careers quickly and find a job without any student contact. If you do not depart the profession voluntarily, involuntary removal will be necessary.
 

Vigorous efforts are currently underway to educate and empower students and their parents concerning faculty sexual harassment/sexual misconduct. They will know what their civil rights are, how to protect themselves, and how to file a complaint. Most importantly, they will know how to collect hard evidence to document your abusive behavior.
 

Your days of exploiting relatively uninformed, powerless female students are over. From this point on, you will never know if your targeted victim is secretly tape-recording what you say to her in person or on the telephone ( just the kind of hard evidence needed to terminate a professor, even a tenured one).
 

We are strongly recommending that students and their parents directly contact you and formally inquire in writing about your prior disciplinary record for sexual harassment/sexual misconduct involving students before enrolling in one of your classes. As consumers, they have a right to know whether you have unlawfully violated student civil rights in the past.

We have also targeted university administrators who have allowed you and other faculty sexual deviants to victimize students for decades. These administrators will be held accountable by students, parents, and the public for their role in enabling widespread student abuse. We will strongly encourage universities to quickly terminate offending faculty members and hold them personally and monetarily responsible for any damage done.
 

Remember two recent court cases involving William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University. After losing sexual harassment lawsuits initiated by students, these institutions fired the faculty perpetrators involved and then sued them in civil court to recover the damage awards paid to the students, plus attorney fees. We applaud this aggressive action and encourage more institutions to follow their lead.
 

If you are confused about whether what you are doing constitutes sexual harassment/sexual misconduct, contact your campus affirmative action officer, the office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education or call me at (219) 980-6903 . If you cannot control your unlawful behavior, leave the profession and seek professional assistance.  
 

Under any circumstances, the sexual harassment/sexual misconduct must stop and it must stop NOW!
 

ONE MORE VICTIM IS ONE TO MANY!
 

We will pursue every legal means at our disposal to eradicate this national disgrace and insure that no more students are victimized!
 

Charles J. Hobson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Business Administration
Indiana University Northwest