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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonder how this will play on campus.[/quote]

It’s not going to matter for the most part and won’t have much impact. He isn’t getting fired; he personally appointed the men who would fire him. Students won’t care because they don’t read the Washington Post. Women faculty can’t take risks with him in charge and will keep their mouths shut.

Mostly what will happen is that any serial sexual harassers on the Purdue staff will be relieved to see that they can continue harassing young women students because they have more messaging from leadership on how women are second-class citizens. (They probably already understood that about the president, I am sure, but additional data points are always useful to harassers looking to see how far they can push things.) A few tenured women professors might quietly start looking to transfer. Faculty recruitment of women might take a little hit, but with tenure so difficult, no woman will turn down a tenure spot even with an obvious misogynist in charge.

Nothing significant will happen. [/quote]

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