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December 01, 2005
I may be having sex in front of an open window, but please respect my privacy
If you had sex in front of your open windows in a highrise in broad daylight, and the guy in the highrise across the street took an ordinary camera and snapped a picture, is he committing sexual harassment? Penn apparently thought so. An Engineering junior snapped the blurry photo and posted it on his website, which got him dragged in on sexual harassment charges. According to the university, the pictures were posted "without that student's authorization and in a manner highly invasive of the student's privacy." Hmm... if one doesn't want her privacy invaded while having sex, perhaps she should close the blinds.
This isn't the first time Penn got creative with "harassment" charges. In 1993, a Jewish student in one of the highrises called some loud sorority sisters a group of "water buffalo". Water buffalo is the English translation of a Yiddish term meaning "loud" or "obnoxious." The sorority sisters happened to be black, and even though water buffalos don't live in Africa (they're Asian), the poor Jewish boy got strung up on racial harassment charges. It resulted in a book on free speech on campus, the first chapter of which is available online.
One day after the college paper published an account of the prosecution, the university dropped all the charges before the situation spun out of control and embarassed the school. At least they're learning... slowly.
Posted by adrianjo at December 1, 2005 10:47 PM