For some years now, the legal definition of consent has been in question and in flux. Simply speaking, consent is mutual agreement between two people; the implication is that a sexual encounter can’t involve assault if two (or more) people all enter into it willingly. [Read more…]
Shall, Will: What’s the Difference?
A colleague of mine uses an out-of-office email message that reads something like, “I shall be out of the office until Monday, October 14, and will respond then.” She’s a rare exception these days. Almost nobody distinguishes between shall and will anymore. In my own case, although I understand the difference, I’d feel too self-conscious and stuffy using shall correctly. That’s where contractions come in handy: if I write, “I’ll be out of the office until Monday, October 14 . . .,” I don’t have to deal with the now virtually extinct difference between shall and will. [Read more…]
The Lonely Only
Where you place the word only in a sentence can make the difference between being logical and seeming ridiculously illogical—that is, if you and your reader are paying attention. [Read more…]
Can a Student “Consent” to a Sexual Relationship with a Professor? (Part 3)
No question, in many teacher-student relationships, the student plays a significant role and may even take the lead. Students have a share of the responsibility; they exercise consent, in some sense of that word. In some (a few?) instances, everybody wins: the relationship, which may fizzle, doesn’t ultimately hurt anyone and may even fuel intellectual exchange, as Cristina Nehring contends. But in many more cases, the student who thought she was consenting will discover that, instead, she was deluded and, what’s more, taken advantage of. [Read more…]
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