This chick, Kristen Juras, a law professor at the University of Montana, came down hard on the campus newspaper when it inaugurated a sex column. Said it had to be stopped because it was ’embarrassingly unprofessional’ and reflected badly upon her as a faculty member.
That was a couple of years ago.
You really want unprofessional? Unprofessional is setting yourself up as a private consultant to write articles favoring your clients, and then using the cover of your university appointment to give your hackwork legitimacy. It’s failing to disclose that your work is paid independent work for a client – tailor-made to promote that client’s legislative interests – and has nothing to do with the university which has you on its faculty.
When Montana’s governor complained to the university’s president that one of his faculty was misbehaving in this way, it irritated the president. He was caught off guard. You could say he was embarrassed.
Juras’ written study contained no disclosure saying her conclusions were her own and not the university’s views, nor did she seek prior consent from her dean to use the university name in working as a consultant, [the president] said.
Now of course Juras is screaming about free speech… A confused woman.