I’m a liguistics professor at a prominent Southern California University (I’ve used the pseudonym of “Stan Kiley” here to protect me from possible legal problems). Although every professor dreams of having his young female students offer him sex for grades, it had never happened to me, or anyone I knew, until last year.
Lisa T. was a freshman student, one of many in an overcrowded intro class I was teaching. The class is designed to serve as an overview to the science of linguistics, to give the students a chance to decide if they want to major in the field. Most professors teaching this section see it as their job to scare away the timid by making the intro class fairly tough. Linguistics is a demanding, tricky field. We want to make sure a student is extremely serious before he or she decides to choose it as a major.
