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La Salle University officials acknowledged today that the university has launched "a full-scale investigation" into "reports regarding an incident which occurred on March 21" — an incident which, according to two students who witnessed the event and spoke with CP, involved a professor inviting a team of strippers to engage himself and students at an on-campus, for-credit symposium.
According to the students, the symposium, hosted at a satellite campus facility in Plymouth Meeting, was held by La Salle assistant professor of management Jack Rappaport. For a $150 admission fee, students earned credit in the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, as well as extra credit in the professor's School of Business classes. The symposium's subject, the students say, was the application of Platonic and Hegelian ethics to business.
As part of the lesson, they say, three dancers, dressed in bikinis and/or miniskirts and high heels, had already arrived when the approximately 30 students (two of whom were female) entered the classroom. During the course of the presentation, lap dances were administered to willing students — and even Rappaport — while he lectured.
The strippers were "doing their normal job," as one student put it.
The mere presence of these women was not entirely surprising, apparently, to Rappaport's students, who say that he regularly reminded his classes that the strippers had been booked. But "I was surprised they actually gave lap dances," said the same student. "I thought they were just there for effect, like he always said."
"Every student that went knew what they were getting themselves into," said another student.
The event was unexpectedly cut short when a school official, whom one source identified as School of Business dean Paul Brazina, interrupted the show 45 minutes in.
Mr. Rappaport did not return a request for comment.
According to a curriculum vitae posted on La Salle's website, Rappaport has a Master's Degree from New York University and has taught at La Salle for 22 years. Students describe his teaching style as unconventional — several students noted trips to a race track in past classes as part of a lesson in real-life statistics.
La Salle officials neither confirmed nor denied any of these details after repeated requests for clarification, but Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communications Joe Donovan did give City Paper this statement today:
"La Salle University is very concerned about reports regarding an incident that occurred on March 21. Upon learning of the incident, the University immediately launched a full-scale investigation into what took place and who was responsible.Until the investigation has been completed, it would be unfair to those involved to disclose any further information, let alone suspicions or allegations. While the University is proceeding as quickly as possible, we recognize the importance of guarding against a rush to judgment in this situation."
According to the students with whom CP spoke, Rappaport's classes are currently being taught by a substitute.
facts are wrong (I was there)
1- this was not a symposium; it was a seminar. consult a dictionary on the differences between these two not so similar words.
2- this was not for "extra credit"--your sources are wrong/you had poor research. professor rappaport NEVER promised extra credit.
3-your writing makes it seem as if the dancers were dressed in skirts and bikinis the whole time, which is incorrect.— 2012lasalle- 1.) It doesn't matter what it was
2.) It doesn't matter if extra credit was offered
3.) I hear strippers do this crazy thing called "STRIPPING" where they start clothed, and remove clothing...
Your parents shouldn't be spending their hard earned money to send you to school, to be wasting time with these things.
BTW, I'm 25 and went to university.— ztkraptor - Also 2012lasalle
this was a Symposium,
"1. a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
2.
a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic.
3.
an account of a discussion meeting or of the conversation at it. "
"1. a small group of students meeting regularly under the guidance of a tutor, professor, etc, to exchange information, discuss theories, etc
2. one such meeting or the place in which it is held
3. a higher course for postgraduates
4. any group or meeting for holding discussions or exchanging information "
— ztkraptor - I'd like to know what the exact problem is considered to be, and what it would be if Puritanism were removed from the equation. Stripping is legal, students were told what was on offer. I am assuming the professor in fact had valid business- and ethics-related topics to engage with this exercise, I certainly can think of some and I am a psychologist, not a business professor. I'd like the article to include that information. As to (presumably heterosexual, though no real reason to presume this) women students - even more valuable to them, insofar as they are less likely to experience this profession and its milieu in their private lives.— VRKelleyPhD
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