All naughty creative writing professors are naughty in their own way.
B-School Boys, as you know from reading my Beware the B-School Boys category, are all about extortion of very large sums of money. In their world, it’s just straight down the line fraud.
Creative writing professors deal in smaller currencies, and tend to get involved in lame, convoluted, one-man get-rich-quick schemes. (Clubby B-School Boys always have partners in crime.)
Poète maudit Ravi Shankar, currently placed on administrative leave, has been rather on the loose wig lately. We know from his RMP page (He missed 5 out of 15 classes (yet if you miss 3 you fail) & had us buy 100 dollars worth of books which were barely used (money down the drain)… Great class, when he shows up. Had to meet online a few times, poetry is not the kind of class where online classes are really helpful…) that Shankar is copacetic but kind of out of it. His two recent arrests – one of which found him hiding from the cops in the woods – also speak to some problems.
[Shankar was] arrested …in November after allegedly crashing into a vehicle on Route 40 in North Haven [Connecticut] and fleeing the scene, state police said. State police say Shankar was driving east in the shoulder when he rear-ended a parked vehicle and then drove away. A police dog helped troopers find Shankar in a wooded area.
Shankar was charged with driving under the influence, evading responsibility, failure to drive in the proper lane and operating a vehicle without insurance.
That was his second arrest. His first was much more complicated. You can read the details at the article, but the main point is
[Shankar ordered] more than $22,000 worth of tickets to a soccer game in New Jersey in the hopes that he could sell them to make a profit and pay off his more than $70,000 credit card debt.
Things went terribly wrong.