Don't stand so close to me: When does a popular professor's friendliness become inappropriate?

May 5

Don't stand so close to me: When does a popular professor's friendliness become inappropriate?

At the University of Virginia, where faculty members are known to hole up with their research, students praised James R. Sofka as a welcome anomaly.

The young assistant professor met with students whether he had office hours or not. On warm afternoons he could be found on the university's famed Lawn playing chess with undergraduates. As a faculty adviser to a debate society and a campus sorority, he could be counted on to attend students' plays and concerts, or meet up later for a drink.

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Music Reviews

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The Brazen Careerist

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