Lap-Dancing Strippers: Philly Prof. Allegedly Taught Ethics Class Using Exotic Dancers
- Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:56am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Is this what they mean by a hands-on education?
A professor at a branch of La Salle University — a Catholic Christian school — in Pennsylvania is under investigation after it was reported he invited strippers on campus and into a class — strippers who then gave some students, and even the professor, lap dances.
The “class” was an extra credit symposium on business ethics that cost students an extra $150 a piece. School officials have acknowledged the accusations and launched an investigation.
The Philadelphia City Paper gives the details of what happened in the class hosted by Prof. Jack Rappaport:
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.
One student described the scene to local station WPVI-TV. “I don’t know, just kind of laying on top of him. Not laying on top of him but straddling him. It was like a lap dance you could say,” said sophomore Brad Bernardino.
WPVI covered the incident, which occurred last month but is just now coming to light:
The class was apparently shut down when the business dean happened to walk by and see what was going on. City Paper details some of Rappaport’s credentials:
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.
Students told the Paper that Rappaport’s classes are currently being taught by substitutes, suggesting he may have been put on leave.
In the end, it’s unclear what strippers and lap dances had to do with business ethics. Rappaport declined to comment to WPVI, saying he could not do so until the investigation concluded.
“I don’t think bringing in strippers is like right for a Catholic Christian school,” freshman Rachel Sweeney told WPVI.
That may be an understatement.
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Comments (63)
ImahaIngttta
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:52amI wonder what the true cost to the school will be in reduced future alumni and other donations? This business professor gives credence to “those who can’t do, teach”.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:38amThis professor has a very low self-opinion of himself. You don’t need gimmicks to provide quality education.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:23amSay the class lasts 90 minutes. $150 x 30 = $4500.00 divided by 3 strippers = $1,500.00 minus their pimp-professors take. Now that’s what I call a business class.
Report Post »Thun
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:26pmThe Nudie Bar, where there’s an cop at the front door and a Kennedy on the floor, The Nudie Bar
Al Bundy
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:39pmwhere you can blacken an eye and check out a thigh…… . at the nudie bar
where a bucks enough to see their stuff………………………..at the nudie bar
where the breasts may be fake, but man do they shake…..at the nudie bar
where you swear like a sailor, and wish you could nail her…at the nudie bar
Al Bundy
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:20amThe interpretation of “brotherly love” knows no bounds and is clearly for sale.
Report Post »Doesn’t a story like this put the past few years of our economic woes and financial whoring into perspective? “Oh, I get. They’re taught to be greedy, amoral and lascivious. It all makes sense now.”
Thanks, Philadelphia! Thanks, higher education!
patriote americain
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:08amWow, that’s nothing like my ethics class in college….. key words- catholic college, strippers, and ethics. I don’t think I have ever heard these words used in the same sentence….LOL
Report Post »The saddest part of this story is the destruction of the moral fabric of our great society. You send your kid to college to learn business ethics. Your professor takes you to the race track for gambling and host a class with strippers. Also, who made the 150.00 cover charge…professor or strippers?…. only thing missing was a keg and drugs.
Dexter Alarius
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:33amI haven‘t used google since a few years ago when on June 6th they celebrated the invention of the Rubik’s Cube rather than D-Day!
Report Post »They are dead to me.
IMaTELLaU
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:30amNext semester will be an illicit drug use symposium. $3,000.00 to attend. The T.E.K. will be for the business class… break down the percentage of monies that go into the professors pocket and the free drugs he snorted/smoked/injected. The ethics class will be, you are no longer required to have any!
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:10amClass attendance was important to the teacher, i’m certain………he was only trying to motivate them
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:49amHmm. How much of a cut of that $150.00 did he pocket?
Report Post »A Cahtolic Christian University?
Trips to race tracks as part of classes?
Mebbe some of the students wanted to be jockeys.
And I heard there is a great demand in the job market for observers of lap dancings.
Foreign students around the globe are into science and engineering.
And we wonder why we are going down the tubes.
Many American companies hires foreigners in industries where advanced sciences are required.
I wonder why?
geonj
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:45ampimping out the strippers and getting paid to get his rocks off. true entreprenurial spirit. and using class credit as a way to draw in “clients”. although immoral, the man is brilliant.
Report Post »mickey16
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:42amWhat did the two female students get for their $150?
Report Post »foobear
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:15amProbably the same thing the male students did? Lots of women go to strip clubs.
While it would have been an interesting lecture to hear about the economics of a legal-but-dubious sector of our economy, I think having them actually give lap dances (and at a Catholic University no less) crossed several ethical boundaries.
When I was in college, we brought in a homeless professor to talk about his experiences on the streets, including how he made money and whatnot. It was fascinating, easily one of the best lectures I’ve ever attended in my life. But we didn’t go rooting through trash together.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:29am@MICKEY16
“What did the two female students get for their $150?”
A shot at filing a lawsuit for sexual discrimination? :-)
Report Post »mtDiamonds
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:42amDam !! wish I was in that class !!! getting my freak on .. . .
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:38amYou can’t make it up. Maybe it was also an “jest”ure of helping the economy for ladies involved. Nah.
Report Post »alina.bolero
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:33amWow! Dumb ass!
I can’t begin to imagine what he was trying to teach in a business ethics class by having strippers give lap dances. Too bad it was cut short by the dean. I would have loved to hear the argument. I suppose there are a number of ethical considerations in the business transaction of people going to strip clubs … like are they lying to their spouses about where they are? … is it a form of cheating? … is anyone getting hurt? … hmmmmmm
… but still … at a Christian College? …. dumb ass!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:27amForgive this off topic post. Anyone else see Google celebrating the Soviet Union putting the first man in space today? I remember it and it was a moral victory for the U.S.S.R. Americans were not happy about it. Google remembers it as a glorious day.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:38amGoogle has the presidents ear……and is a mouth piece for propaganda.
Report Post »I don’t use Google anymore, and I suspect lots of conservatives no longer do either.
338lapua
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:20amShow of hands…..SURPRISED???
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:18amPlatonic and Hegelian ethics, was that their street names?
Report Post »RED-DAWN
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:17amHe was attempting to teach what you are required to do if you want to GET FIRED FROM YOUR JOB AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE!
If my daughter attended this college and I found about some crap like this, she would no longer be a student at this college!!!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:16amI have some questions about this article:
1) Was the $150 all paid in singles?
Report Post »2) How do I sign up for the class?
3) Can I just go to the local strip joint and get the college credit?
Deane
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:52amIf you’ve never been to a strip club Rick, the ladies there will always say they are “working their way through college and need the money to pay tuition” a very common response to “what are you doing dancing here?” If you dont believe me try it one time just for giggles!
Report Post »darkknight91
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:23amThose girls can make six figures if they‘re in the right club and city and they’re really attractive. My friends used to go all the time and they were pretty much on a first name basis with the girls. I’d say they put the girls AND their kids through college as much as they went.
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:20pmBut if you get caught in a strip club by your wife or significant other be sure to tell them Deane told you to do it. (As an experiment.)
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:08amI wonder? Was Sodom worse than today’s society
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:01amThat is unlikely.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:08amNot much!
Report Post »PIL
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:33amOh come on, in Sodom it was ok to rape people. Here it’s only ok for women to cry rape if they drink too much, have sex with you, and then regret it in the morning.
Smoking Ban Outrage: UMass goes 100% Tobacco Free.
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Thun
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:20pm@PIL
UMass is as socialist as they come. They have a library named after W.E.B. Du Bois, a W.E.B. Du Bois Afro-American Studies Department, one of the largest in the country and a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship. I know I shouldn’t be surprised it is Massachusetts after all, but should a university that receives public funding be so anti constitutional?
Report Post »id-look-fat-in-a-burka
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:04amWhat are they trying to teach??
Report Post »BRAVEHEART
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:01pmLiberalism 101 or preparing for presidential politics.
Report Post »constitutionaldirective
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:04amNEVER any pictures.. ;(
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:53amYes, man-law violation.
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:24pmI would have expected the professor’s name to be WJ Clinton…..
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:04amI’m cracking up … the extra cost, for strippers & lap dances, was $150.00 … “a piece”
Freudian?
Report Post »CalvinandHobbes
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:56pmDid the class have to bring dollar bills for tips?…LOL
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:01amIt seems the business ethics beign taught falll into the area of bribery, corruption and the lack of any and all ethics for the future business entrepenuers when they become politcal figures.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:44amRemember this was a Catholic school. If it were a public school like Columbia where the pride themselves on not having any ethical basis, it would be okay.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:00amWhy does this happen after I’m out of college?
Report Post »Deane
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:08amany chance i could just audit the class with the same bennies????
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:10amAt least someone is creating jobs
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:13amYou just gotta know the right vendors or lobbyists with lap dance enabled expense accounts.
That’s been part of politics and business since before the MBA was invented.
Report Post »PER100
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:32amIts a legal business. just not a popular one. not as dirty as a politician though.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:43amWith the power of the union, this guy will get a slap on the hand, at best. This is why what Scott Walker is doing is so important. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68uzsXdMLS4
Report Post »ImahaIngttta
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:53amI wonder what the true cost to the school will be in reduced future alumni and other donations? This business professor gives credence to “those who can’t do, teach”.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:05pmI went to the wrong school!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:19pmSince my wife is standing next to me, I will just say that I’m shocked and appalled at the entire episode……………………………………………………………………………………ok, she is gone…..now where do I sign up?…..cuz I have a whole fistull of dollar bills and I’m ready to do me some learning!!!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:24pmhmmm….I missed that one…
Report Post »delhoghe
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 6:10pmWhat on earth is a Catholic Christian ?
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