Sex! Race! Lawsuit! Scandal! - Stanford B-School Soap Opera
Vanity Fair is running a long piece on the Stanford Business School affair that led the School's dean to resign. It's better than anything you could find on daytime TV. Just a sample below:
...Sometime
that summer, Phills’s younger daughter, now eight, told her father how
“Garth” had just visited with her mother, and how friendly he had been.
That fall, in the ongoing pre-divorce mediation, Gruenfeld seemed to be
digging in. Phills, suspecting that Saloner was doing some coaching, and
that his wife was bad-mouthing him to his boss (and that some of his
colleagues had become standoffish), began his surveillance. Technically
it was easy, Phills says—Gruenfeld’s passwords were stored in his
computer and iPad—but morally it was more dicey, and he sought out
advice from both the university “ombuds” and its dean for religious
life. As relevant tidbits turned up, and he grew more alarmed, the
frequency of his reconnaissance increased. Though Saloner and Gruenfeld
vowed to each other to delete their conversations immediately, in some
instances Phills was too quick for them, capturing the exchanges with
screen shots. In mid-to-late October, Saloner and Gruenfeld saw each other several
times. What ensued would normally be of only voyeuristic interest but
for the issue of recusal, which became obligatory at Stanford once a
“consensual sexual or romantic” relationship begins. So it matters that,
in the space of 10 days or so, the two scuttled dinner plans upon
spotting some G.S.B. colleagues in a Palo Alto restaurant, and ended up
at Saloner’s house; that Saloner proposed going to a movie in another
county, where they could hold hands undetected; that Saloner grew
“dizzy” while embracing Gruenfeld in his kitchen; that, before
reluctantly parting ways on another evening, they groped each other at
her house. (Despite all these facts, contained in intercepted chats,
Stanford continues to insist they had yet to kiss—that, defying the
rules of both flirtation and baseball, the dean had somehow approached
second base without ever touching first.) ...
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