I read that it was a Spotify playlist.
It seems vanishingly unlikely that any coffee shop in 2018 has music from employees’ personal CD collections. Teens no longer have CD’s. And most businesses use sone sort of streaming service, usually a business/commercial version.
Given existing Title IX rules, it seems like the dean would have no choice but to take action. Otherwise, he could be seen as tolerating a hostile environment.
^^On what possible basis could that be true. The person playing it was a woman and not an employee of the university
I don’t see the employee distinction as relevant. The dean couldn’t ignore a custodian sexually harassing students on campus, even if the cleaning work was contracted out to another company and the custodian wasn’t a university employee. The dean has a Title IX responsibility to ensure the campus is safe.
It has, you’re just not paying attention. R Kelly wasn’t the only artist removed from Spotify playlists.
I’ll admit–I don’t usually pay any attention whatsoever to rap. My one kid likes it though and when I was interested in listening to some just to see what the big deal was he sorted through artists and songs to find “clean (er)” versions so I wouldn’t faint (or more likely give him a long lecture on the moral decay of our society and how he shouldn’t be contributing to it). I happened to like some of it actually ( at least what he deemed “mom acceptable”)
It’s not the f-words and so forth that bother me, it’s the gross demeaning of women.
I’m not too fond of boasting about your money, cars, jewelry, et al either, but brain dead materialism is far, FAR less important, IMHO.
“Given existing Title IX rules, it seems like the dean would have no choice but to take action. Otherwise, he could be seen as tolerating a hostile environment.”
I don’t agree. Playing one song on one occasion is not a hostile environment. I’ve seen some absurd and trivial Title IX cases – I had a student who was threatened with suspension over a hug. Title IX does not require anybody to be fired, and certainly not over a song. While an institution can choose to fire the perpetrator, there’s no legal duty to do so. The duty is to keep the problem from happening over and over. If that goal can be achieved with a simple directive like “Only play the songs on this list,” that’s sufficient.
I will partially defer to the HLS grad, but I also have to ask if you have listened to the unedited song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbP71cRI7iw? I think if I repeated any of those lyrics at work I would get an EEO complaint. On the facts, I find it exceptionally improbable this was the only instance of an inappropriate song being played. If this was part of a playlist, I’m betting inappropriate songs were played hundred of times before the dean happened to be at the coffee shop.