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Faculty fallout continues from online sex photos
KRQE Albuquerque ^ | 4-3-08 | Tim Maestas

Posted on 04/07/2008 6:52:04 PM PDT by Snickering Hound

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A University of New Mexico director is resigning to protest what she calls a lack of sanctions against a colleague who appeared with at least one student in simulated sex scenes on the Internet.

Professor Sharon Warner, UNM's creative writing director, said she first brought the pictures and the Web site where she found them to the attention of administrators in July. The photos showed creative writing professor Lisa Chavez in domination poses.

Warner said UNM is giving Chavez a free pass.

"We have tried to go through the process, the academic process of requesting an ethics committee investigation," Warner told KRQE News 13. "There should probably be some sort of sanctioning.

"I felt like I had to do something to say that this is not OK."

Warner said she is resigning as director but is still staying with UNM as a professor.

UNM deputy provost Richard Holder said even though Chavez may have exercised poor judgment, it does not mean she's unfit for her job at UNM.

"I think UNM did handle it properly," Holder said in a statement released to KRQE News 13. "Many, many hours with many, many people have been spent on this issue," Holder said.

The pictures range from relatively tame to very graphic. Most can't be shown on television.

In them Chavez assumes the role of a dominatrix, the woman in control of what is usually a sadomasochistic sexual relationship.

News 13 first reported on the controversial photos three months ago and interviewed a woman who appeared in some of the photos. She said she had earlier been a student of Chavez's and that she saw nothing wrong with the photos.

"Everything we photograph is staged," the woman who asked that her name be withheld said. "What I think is really happening is the viewer is imagining much more."

Warner said she is not willing to let the matter drop and may even take her complaint to the governor. She is among more than a dozen faculty members now appealing the case against Chavez to UNM's interim provost.

"We think a message has to be sent out not only to her but to other faculty members, because if this is not unethical, what is unethical?" Warner said.

Chavez is now on sabbatical. News 13 was unable to reach her on Wednesday for comment.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: academia; bondage; dominatrix; homosexualagenda; kinky; lesbians
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1 posted on 04/07/2008 6:52:04 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

You KNOW the rulz.........

Pics....

M-Kay.


2 posted on 04/07/2008 6:53:35 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: Snickering Hound

This thread needs pix.


3 posted on 04/07/2008 6:54:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (Càite bheil an taigh beag?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; CedarDave; Constitution Day; elkfersupper
TTIUWPWTFIIWNM?
4 posted on 04/07/2008 6:55:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Snickering Hound

Is the other gal 18? No longer a student? Than busybody needs to butt out.


5 posted on 04/07/2008 6:58:17 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Snickering Hound

Hmm...somebody needs a spanking. So to speak.


6 posted on 04/07/2008 7:00:11 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: martin_fierro
WTFIIWNM?

We actively recruit the lunatic fringe of academia. We breed the lunatic fringe of politics.

7 posted on 04/07/2008 7:00:25 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Snickering Hound
"I felt like I had to do something to say that this is not OK."

There is too little of this thinking occurring these days.

8 posted on 04/07/2008 7:02:28 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Snickering Hound
interviewed a woman who appeared in some of the photos.

I knew before I even read the article that the pictures were lesbian. That alone explains why Bill Richardson's state of New Mexico will never take any action against the porn prof.

9 posted on 04/07/2008 7:04:07 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: humblegunner; martin_fierro

>> This thread needs pix.

I found one — it’s small, and a little off color. Should I post it?


10 posted on 04/07/2008 7:05:39 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I'm not voting FOR John McCain -- I'm voting AGAINST Hillary/Obama)
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To: roaddog727
You KNOW the rulz.........
Pics....


Pics at source are of the milder sort
Some apparently were not for TV quality


11 posted on 04/07/2008 7:06:12 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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12 posted on 04/07/2008 7:08:23 PM PDT by razorback-bert (If yer gunna regret this in the mornin, we kin sleep til afternoon.)
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To: HangnJudge

Guilty! The both of them.


13 posted on 04/07/2008 7:09:09 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: humblegunner
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Down on your knees!

14 posted on 04/07/2008 7:09:20 PM PDT by billorites (Freepo ergo sum)
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To: Snickering Hound

She’s been very naughty and she can’t be allowed to get away with it.


15 posted on 04/07/2008 7:11:16 PM PDT by adversarial (the pros and cons of voting for)
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To: Snickering Hound
She may have a dozen faculty members with her but wait till about 58 liberal professors take out a full-page ad to excoriate her as a trampler of collegiate free expression and innocent films of domination pornography.

I hope she continues to put up her dukes.....and fights these cretins with all she's got durham the next few months.

Leni

16 posted on 04/07/2008 7:11:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal (I Love My Country More Than I Dislike John McCain)
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To: Snickering Hound

http://www.unm.edu/~english/Faculty/Chavez/Index.htm


17 posted on 04/07/2008 7:15:02 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: billorites

LOL!!! OMG HAHAA!!


18 posted on 04/07/2008 7:15:10 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (1/2 " Typical White Person " and 1/2 " Garlic nosed Italian")
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To: Snickering Hound
UNM deputy provost Richard Holder

Well, at least his last name wasn't FLUFFER.

19 posted on 04/07/2008 7:16:18 PM PDT by gunservative
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To: Snickering Hound

She has an E-Mail address
ldchavez@unm.edu

Just for your information


20 posted on 04/07/2008 7:16:51 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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