Thanks, meara. I've forwarded that link to her. She's rotating through a bunch of reactions right now, and, seriously, she was so much nicer than she needed to be, which makes this all the more horrifying. If it had been me, it would have just been "Professor ita ! was as much of a bitch as her reputation would suggest. I'm never having sex as a result of her encounter, since everything hurts forever."

Not the "she made every excuse for me possible and tried to make me as comfortable as possible while I recorded our conversation and pretended to be distraught" that she actually *got*.

And now we reach the lawsuit portion of ita's sister's career. Or equivalent,"This fuckery will not stand," reaction.

Also, these people are currently listed on their website as part of the "Research and Grants" office (where the IRB policy I found was). I would contact them to find out who the chair of the IRB is, and if this proposal crossed either of their desks.

You are now viewing information for Reaearch and Grants Name: Ruth Edwards | Location: Reaearch and Grants Internal: 7416 Straight Line: 1-876-963-7416 Name: Felix Omoruyi | Location: Reaearch and Grants Internal: 7417 Straight Line: 1-876-963-7417

(As someone who does research, even if not humanities-type, and knows how slippery slopes can be and how suspicious people can be about research and supposedly shady practices, and who hates having to yell at the TV on Law and Order about things that just don't HAPPEN in the industry...this pisses me off a lot)

Now "Straight Line" makes me laugh, even though I realize it's got to be the regional version of what I would say as "Direct Line."

The study is designed to test whether staff members at tertiary institutions across Jamaica engage in heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual relationships with students.

Wow, that's just... WHAT? That's entrapment into career-ending situations. WTF.

Reminds me of the two neuroscientists a few years ago who caused a stir in fandom with a bullshit online survey--when a bunch of people called the BU IRB, the two guys got cast adrift. Didn't stop them from selling the book they wrote about the so-called "results" they got, though...

ita's sister, you have all of buffistae behind you. FUCK THEM UP

I'm so glad my sister understands I'm going to share this stuff with y'all, but she is always impressed with how fast Buffistas do research. She's taking the info I forwarded to her to the Dean of her university.

She's taking the info I forwarded to her to the Dean of her university.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

FWIW,

I am not sure their "research design" such as it is matches the research questions implied in the email. There is no way an IRB would have approved it and since deception was used, they most certainly did not.

Is this a student project or something?

There were so many other ways to go about this including interviewing/surveying students to see how many had relationships with instructors or heard others who had. Then they could have interviewed/surveyed faculty.

The incidence by faculty member and student overall is pretty low in the US (and I would assume it would also be low in Jamaica) so I'm not sure any study would have found much.

People on Daily Kos could not *believe* the amount of craxy internet to which I have been a witness(can I get a witness? sorry, always wanted to say that.Anyway...) They are always SO shocked by Olbermann's twitter fights(I'm shocked he can write a thought under 140 characters, but other than that...all in the game, right?) And he flounces like a fourteen-year-old Bieber fan. Which, admittedly, is a discouraging thing to find in a hero, but not shocking, once you get like Helen Keller about it and realize "Everything has a name." and that,sir, is the Great Flounce-off. But I was like "Did he steal Markos' code and make the Daily Keith and write that we all suck?" No. Did he create Baseball Tropes with a bunch of fans, take all the credit and fake his own death? No. Well, we win.