This is an archived page. Images and links on this page may not work. Please visit the main page for the latest updates.

 
 
 
Read my book, TEACHING BEAUTY IN DeLILLO, WOOLF, AND MERRILL (Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming), co-authored with Jennifer Green-Lewis. VISIT MY BRANCH CAMPUS AT INSIDE HIGHER ED





UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Friday, December 02, 2005

Penn Pulls Out Prematurely

U Penn has wised up fast this time and dropped all disciplinary charges against the student photographer who, apparently like many on campus, snapped a pair of his fellow students having sex in an open dorm window. (He posted some of the photos on the web.)

As details of the incident -- make that incidents -- emerge, the windowhangers turn out to be quite the kinksters:

The pictures were taken during broad daylight, with no telephoto lenses. Small crowds that included a number of people with cameras gathered to watch the couple, who repeated the act in front of the dorm-room window over several days…


Not that I want to be seen as bashing women, especially after my unpopular pro-Hirshman positions, etc. - but note that Mr. Windowhanger has said and done nothing. It’s Ms. and Ms. alone who has run squawking to the deans about how her privacy has been violated:

The faces of the naked couple are not clear in any of the most infamous images. And because the university disciplinary process is confidential, Penn did not release the names of anyone involved in this case. Nonetheless, the female student's identity has become well-known on campus.

"My client is emotionally shattered from what is an extremely disturbing ordeal," said Jordan Koko, her attorney. "There has been a public invasion into her personal life."


UD is loathe to speculate as to how this woman’s identity became known.

But… well… I guess the likeliest reason people know who she is that for several days she hung out of a window overlooking a square, screwing. The next likeliest is that she or her hanger-on told people (boasted?) about it. The next likeliest after that is that the people inside the building know who lives in the infamous ill-fated flat of fenestral fucking.