OT: Iowa needs to screen its academic advisors a little better
Just read the article and then think of puppies and kitties for a while to get your skin to stop crawling.
Can't figure out how Iowa rehired this guy after ten years away from the school if he already had records of inappropriate behavior during his first stint working there.
Ewwwww......
November 13th, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
November 13th, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
that
1) this stuff goes on
2) that it seems to be allowed to continue far beyond what it should have.
I've seen people fired for stealing a sack lunch yet keep their jobs for harassing an employee. It never makes sense to me
November 13th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
I think 1 often causes 2.
People don't want to believe that this stuff goes on, and thus they don't act appropriately to stop it.
November 13th, 2012 at 4:13 PM ^
Well, I think we now know what caused the wrath of the AIRBHG...
But in all seriousness, my sympathies to his victims and poor form on Iowa's part for not more timely handling this guy as soon as allegations surfaced.
November 13th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
...is how much the accompanying photo made me laugh.
November 13th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
I think it's the unibrow.
November 13th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
You mean this one.....
Or this one....
November 14th, 2012 at 6:21 AM ^
November 13th, 2012 at 4:27 PM ^
I'm no HR expert, but I think when someone asks "Wasn't this guy a total creep last time he worked here?" you gotta pretty much pass on the hire.
November 13th, 2012 at 7:41 PM ^
Maybe his academic advice was just that good.
November 13th, 2012 at 5:11 PM ^
"His job duties at the Gerdin Academic Learning Center included serving as a functional supervisor to the academic coordinators, and providing one-one-one counseling, mentoring and academic advising to student-athletes. " - from the Press-Citizen article
Given how many people are in and out of such a place, I assume, and how many people likely interfaced with this guy, that's a lot of trust betrayed by the University of Iowa for not acting on allegations that go back to the early and mid-1990s, I would think, and indeed, shame on them for hiring him again. According to the Press-Citizen piece - here - he has also held positions at Austin Peay, Mississippi, Indiana and Coastal Carolina. This story may come in many awful segments, if engaged in this sort of behavior elsewhere.
November 13th, 2012 at 6:45 PM ^
That seems like a lot of jobs in random places for such a seemingly innocuous job. I mean, being an academic advisor has to be pretty similar no matter where you go and it doesn't appear as though he was moving up in conference prestige or pay... so maybe he was getting treated like a bad priest and just being shifted around to different locations? Obviously this is bad press for Iowa, so I'd imagine say... Austin Peay would likely rather just "let him go" than bring something like this to light. Sad, but it is the world we live in.
November 13th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
I feel like there's a "Fifty Shades of Gray" joke in here somewhere...
November 13th, 2012 at 5:33 PM ^
So Penn State Sandusky scary. I am not really sure it is that bad I am just saying it would not suprise me if it came out it was
November 14th, 2012 at 8:22 AM ^
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November 13th, 2012 at 6:43 PM ^
"Gray also admitted that he had a photograph of male swim team members posing in their swimsuits as a screen saver on his work computer." Why is this line included? Seems like the investigators are falling into the Texas Sharpshooters Fallacy there. I'd find it more strange if he didn't have a picture of an athletic team on his work computer.
November 13th, 2012 at 8:11 PM ^
Perhaps. These are individual facts that come together to make a larger picture. Any one piece of information may seem innocuous, but when they come together....
November 13th, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
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November 13th, 2012 at 10:30 PM ^
and you have to wonder if a few of them haven't smacked the snot out of him but were too embarrassed to say anything. yeech.