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In 2003 I had to pick between the campus paper and a professor's class, and I picked wrong
Back at Ohio State in 2003 I wrote a column for the student paper about a professor who gave out his home number to students, nothing mean, just that it seemed odd, and the next week the journalism school dean called me in. I could either print a retraction and apologize or lose my spot in a required senior seminar, and I picked the retraction because I was 21 and scared of not graduating. Has anyone else had to pick between saying sorry for something you still stand behind and staying on track?
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annahunt16d ago
Question whether the dean really had that kind of pull over a required seminar. At most schools a dean can lean on a department, but they can't just boot you from a class you need to graduate because of an opinion piece. Sounds more like a bluff that worked because you were 21 and scared, which honestly most of us would have fallen for too. Take this with a grain of salt since I don't know how OSU worked back then, but the threat might have been softer than it felt.
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