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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad bad bad idea to do it now![/quote]

Happens now quite frequently at privates.  Schools no doubt have suggested rules.  No one on one.  Mix of girls and boys.  Consider URM.  Spouse needs to be there.  No drinks unless all over 21.[/quote]

Ha ha. I majored in Russian and we used to get hammered at department events, including dinners at professor's houses. And they used to come to our parties in the language dorm. One had a stocked bar in his office and seniors would do shots on Fridays. Other departments definitely had their own after-class traditions, some of which were more refined (but still included alcohol....the English and classics professors weren't going to NOT drink wine. Although, as I recall, the poli sci/econ profs were more into beer.)

[b]Whats the point of going to a SLAC if you don't get the perks of a small school? Getting to know your professors, and interacting with them like an adult, is one of the reasons you go to a tiny school in the middle of nowhere.[/b]

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And it’s shockingly inappropriate. 
This entire thread is unreal to me.  [/quote]

[b]It’s unreal to you that professors sometimes socialize with students? [/b]I feel like you’re the kind of person who wants to impose rigid rules on everyone because you’re deathly scared of losing any advantage. that really says more about your anxiety to squeeze out any possible advantave than them.

Colleges and universities are places where people learn and construct knowlege. Thinking and talking about their areas of study with other is literally how you do academics at a higher level. [/quote]

Yes, it’s appalling inappropriate for professors to socialize with current students. Specifically when it’s exclusive - not the entire class being invited, but only the chosen few 
The fact that the inappropriateness of this actually needs to be explained, and so many are defending this is bewildering. [/quote]

You have a view I think that the purpose of college is to take classes and get grades so you want this wall --- like you would not want the judge who was best friends with opposing counsel.  I get it.  But college isn't that.  It is growing and learning and these relationships are key to that process.  It never has been this Civil Service Exam type system that you think it is.  Can you go to college and never do this.  Of course.  I think your fairness point is overblown though.  My room mate was a Russian major and sometimes people would come in from say Russia, Poland, or the Ukraine.  I am pretty sure everyone who spoke Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, or even French was invited because that is what was spoken.  I was never invited.  It is often the top students.  If you can be a top student you would get invited too.  I was invited to things where I had a connection with the professor and my interest in what that professor did was well know.  I actually can't see how that would help me.  Indeed many of the times I was invited I had already finished my courses with that professor.  Professors are not giving out As to people who come to dinner. [/quote]

Guys we are talking about professors, employees of the school, showing favoritism to a few of their pets, while others are excluded. It’s just not professionally ethical.  Who cares if it was common in the past?  In case you haven’t noticed, views about what constitutes fair and appropriate behavior has been drastically changing. It seems to me that those who were lucky enough to to become the teacher’s pet can’t clearly view how inappropriate this is. [/quote]

It is not teacher pets in the high school sense.  It is about taking extra care of students that are in the orbit of the professor.  That is their job.  They are not mons that lecture and grade.  That isn't the job.  At all.  [/quote]

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