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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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To: Snickering Hound

http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/ElizabethsBlog/Lisa-Chavez-speaks-out

Professor Chavez worked for what she calls “a BDSM phone fantasy service,” although its’ own website describes itself as prostitution:

“”OUR BELOVED PEP PHONE COUNSELORS—
REAL PEOPLE! REAL COMMUNICATION!
908-284-8028
Please call these intelligent dominant/submissive ladies for intimate fetish dialogue.
($119/hour, $99/45 minutes, $89/30 minutes. Higher rates to speak to Nancy.)
MasterCard/Visa/American Express/Discover/Phone Checks/Pre-Pay/Wired money transfer
(A small service fee applies only to phone checks.)
P.S. Many of our counselors will consider meeting with you privately, passionately. Please inquire about rendezvous.””


21 posted on 04/07/2008 7:20:51 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: billorites

That has got to be the
Funniest picture I’ve seen this year

Sick
but hilarious


22 posted on 04/07/2008 7:22:41 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: iowamark
Higher rates to speak to Nancy.

Speak to the Speaker?

23 posted on 04/07/2008 7:27:02 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: iowamark
Professor Chavez worked for what she calls “a BDSM phone fantasy service

Linked to from the article

http://peplove.com/
24 posted on 04/07/2008 7:27:16 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: iowamark
"Many of our counselors will consider meeting with you privately, passionately. Please inquire about rendezvous."

Eliot Spitzfong: "Sounds good, what's the price, shall I wire the money now?..... but are you all dykes or do some of your 'counselors' want to join me in a game of "mistress-I-want-to-hide-the-salami?""
25 posted on 04/07/2008 7:33:40 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary: I brought peace to Northern Ireland, I dodged sniper bullets in Bosnia....... HUH???)
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To: iowamark
Here's one of her statements from the link-article where she defends herself...

But I have not lost my voice; I’ve simply learned something about discretion. This situation has radicalized me: I am firmly in support of other sex workers, and of sexual minorities. And I intend to speak out about that, and to write about it.

And we spend how many thousand$ of dollars for kids getting a college education with Profs like this?

26 posted on 04/07/2008 7:34:02 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: roaddog727

LoL. I was waiting for that one.


27 posted on 04/07/2008 7:36:30 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: tflabo
This situation has radicalized me

Somehow I suspect that she was already pretty radical before this!

28 posted on 04/07/2008 7:47:09 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Snickering Hound; greyfoxx39

Um...wow. I assume the student is over eighteen?

NM ping!


29 posted on 04/07/2008 8:08:03 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative (The RINOs think that they have won but we shall see who has the last laugh in '08...)
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To: Snickering Hound

There once was a writing professor
Who was a whips, chains and leather type dresser.
Director Warner did quit
In a hell of a snit
When the University refused to oppress her.


30 posted on 04/07/2008 8:35:19 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Snickering Hound
I began working as a phone counselor for several reasons. One, I was very curious about what actually went on during the calls, and I hoped to write about it, mostly in fiction. Also, taking calls pays well, and I needed the money. I thought it was a perfect job, since I could do it from home.

Velvet Jones: Be a ho!

31 posted on 04/07/2008 10:36:25 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; Rogle; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; ...
NM Ping

If you want on or off the NM Ping list, please FReepmail me.

Access to the ping list is available to anyone by going to my FR home page.

32 posted on 04/08/2008 6:42:18 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes

This is college, not high school, but still...


33 posted on 04/08/2008 2:35:53 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Those in the national Republican leadership do the work of three men- Moe, Larry, and Curly.)
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