It is not fair to call someone a coward for not implicating people. When I was a junior in college, I was fired from a work-study program for refusing to write papers for someone who is now a pretty damn successful NBA player. Do you honestly think if I had publicly disparaged the guy (who was honestly a pretty cool…

What is your obligation as an educator? Your moral obligation may be whatever your conscience tells you or allows you to do. For better or worse, federal law says your legal obligation is to keep your mouth shut. I am not condoning, advocating, justifying, or defending this truth in any way, but that is the reals.

The article isn't about one particular student or incident where naming a name might be more important. It's about a perceived culture and recurring incidents. You don't have to know the names to get the point of what he's saying. And naming names for people who are no longer there changes nothing.

As educators, our hands are pretty tied in these things. We can report the issues to the academic affairs officers and our direct superiors, but (especially as doctoral students) that's as far as it can go. Naming names is out of the question, because federal laws protect the students.