By Gwen Frost
CW: Sexual Harassment
Correction issued 4/20/2020, Schuyler Shelloner’s interview was amended following concerns of a misquote.
After the university found he sexually harassed two students, Huxley Associate Professor Paul Stangl was barred from teaching courses this summer, as well as teaching any field courses until summer 2020. The student who reported Stangl said he poured her wine although he knew she was only 20 years old, and told her and another student that he wanted to “lick their thighs,” among other inappropriate behavior.
Despite this, he sits on the Faculty Senate committee for Huxley, and is teaching classes this Spring. We decided to ask students what would happen if they did the same.
If you served alcohol to a minor and then told them you wanted to “lick their thighs,” like the students said Stangl did, would you still have your job?
Will Roth, Sophomore
Job: Greencoat
Answer: “I would be fired. Because it’s a police position I would probably be arrested. I would probably be suspended from working with them ever again.”
Andrew Kennedy, Junior
Job: Bob’s Burgers
Answer: “Would I still have my job? No. I’d get fired, and probably beat up.”
AR: “What do you think happened to Stangl?”
AK: “Probably nothing, I’m guessing.”
Schuyler Shelloner, Junior
Job: Rudy’s Pizzeria, The Up & Up
Answer: “Since I’m a bartender if I served liquor to a minor I would be fired. I would also possibly face charges, even if I didn’t intend to.”
AR: And for the sexual harassment?
SS: “In a bar context- when we say minor is it under 18 or under 21?”
AR: Under 21.
SS:”I’m sure that wouldn’t help, but I don’t know if I’d go to jail or get fired for that. “
Leslie Cogley, Junior
Job: Student Staff at Teaching and Learning Academy in the Western Library
Answer: “Um, I would be fired immediately. That’s pretty awful, good lord.”
AR: Do you think Stangl still has his job?
LC: “I would hope not.”
Thomas Zapata, Junior
Job: AS Productions, and the Underground Coffee House
Answer: “No, I would be fired, probably immediately.”
Ashley Bennett, Junior
Job: Papa Johns
Answer: “I would be fired, for sure fired.”
Jackie Cain, Junior
Job: Nanny
Answer: “I mean if the people I nanny for found out they would obviously like, fire me.”
Emma Needham, Senior
Job: Certified Nursing Assistant at Highland Health and Rehabilitation
Answer: “I’d get fired. Any kind of claim that involves mistreatment of the people that you’re taking care of immediately gets the state involved, your license revoked, and police involved.”
Updated 3/7/18 to accurately reflect Stangl’s gross remarks.