Comments on: An Ethical Dilemma of a Hypothetical Nature http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/ falling indelibly into the past Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/#comment-641 KF Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:49:58 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=329#comment-641 <p>Thanks for these responses, you guys—this was kinda what I was thinking:  a discreet nudge to someone in a position to make inquiries.  If the student were a student of mine (as it has been in the past), I’d make such inquiries myself, absolutely.  Anyhow, thanks. </p> Thanks for these responses, you guys—this was kinda what I was thinking:  a discreet nudge to someone in a position to make inquiries.  If the student were a student of mine (as it has been in the past), I’d make such inquiries myself, absolutely.  Anyhow, thanks.

]]> By: elementssolidify http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/#comment-640 elementssolidify Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:34:51 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=329#comment-640 <p>knowing the way the college works, it wouldnt be inapporpriate at all if you asked a colleage who knows students x well enough to check in and see if there needs to be further assistance. i would imagine, given the fairly frequent informal and personal interactions that the small college atmosphere facilitates between the students and the faculty, that perhaps student x’s advisor or other professors might suspect something anyway. your knowing nudge might be just what they need to act. </p> <p> if it was me, and sometimes it was me, i would/was glad that a prof intervened. </p> knowing the way the college works, it wouldnt be inapporpriate at all if you asked a colleage who knows students x well enough to check in and see if there needs to be further assistance. i would imagine, given the fairly frequent informal and personal interactions that the small college atmosphere facilitates between the students and the faculty, that perhaps student x’s advisor or other professors might suspect something anyway. your knowing nudge might be just what they need to act.

if it was me, and sometimes it was me, i would/was glad that a prof intervened.

]]> By: incline http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/#comment-639 incline Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:42:16 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=329#comment-639 <p>well hrm.  i’m also in the LJ community i’d guess you’re talking about.  the ethical dilemmas go both ways....a friend of mine and i found a blog once that was obviously a consortium prof, and most of this person’s blog was about an extramarital affair with a student.  we ended up totally staying out of it, and things resolved themselves, as far as we can tell.  but still--it was a pretty big thing to come upon online.  <br /> i guess if a prof found my LJ or my other blog (my LJ is mostly locked to the public anyway), and I was having a really hard time, I might really appreciate some kind of intervention.  Is there any way you can just tell that student’s advisor you heard through another anonymous kid that that student seems to be having some problems? maybe the advisor can even just go have lunch with that student, so he or she feels like there’s some mentor figure to turn to for support.  Or do you know any of that student’s close friends?  maybe you could check in that way.  or through one of the official “peer mentors,” or whatever they’re calling them these days.  I guess I’d freak if I thought the whole faculty was out there reading my blog, but that’s sort of part hazard when you are a member of a public, identifiable online community like some of those college LJ ones.  I think not intervening at all could turn into some kind of regret later, though. </p> well hrm.  i’m also in the LJ community i’d guess you’re talking about.  the ethical dilemmas go both ways….a friend of mine and i found a blog once that was obviously a consortium prof, and most of this person’s blog was about an extramarital affair with a student.  we ended up totally staying out of it, and things resolved themselves, as far as we can tell.  but still–it was a pretty big thing to come upon online. 

i guess if a prof found my LJ or my other blog (my LJ is mostly locked to the public anyway), and I was having a really hard time, I might really appreciate some kind of intervention.  Is there any way you can just tell that student’s advisor you heard through another anonymous kid that that student seems to be having some problems? maybe the advisor can even just go have lunch with that student, so he or she feels like there’s some mentor figure to turn to for support.  Or do you know any of that student’s close friends?  maybe you could check in that way.  or through one of the official “peer mentors,” or whatever they’re calling them these days.  I guess I’d freak if I thought the whole faculty was out there reading my blog, but that’s sort of part hazard when you are a member of a public, identifiable online community like some of those college LJ ones.  I think not intervening at all could turn into some kind of regret later, though.

]]> By: Scott http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/#comment-638 Scott Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:33:16 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=329#comment-638 <p>Is there some kind of advisement mechanism that could be used?  And really, what’s so wrong about your having that information?  It is public, after all.  My first semester at my job, I had a student <a href="http://scott.littlemeanfish.com/wp/?p=291" rel="nofollow">commit suicide</a>.  If I’d had any clue that she was in that kind of trouble, I wouldn’t have hesitated. </p> Is there some kind of advisement mechanism that could be used?  And really, what’s so wrong about your having that information?  It is public, after all.  My first semester at my job, I had a student commit suicide.  If I’d had any clue that she was in that kind of trouble, I wouldn’t have hesitated.

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