October 24, 2003

Professors Behaving Badly

By DENNIS BARON

Misconduct, while rare, is the most disheartening thing you will face as a department head

Paula Barringer sat in my office and told me that she had stopped taking her meds, that this was fine with her therapist, and that she was feeling better than ever. Not that I had asked about any of that.

Barringer (not her real name) had come, at my request, to explain the threatening e-mail message that she had sent to a female graduate student whom Barringer accused of turning faculty

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