The campus outrage machine never sleeps.

Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.

College president accused of sexism after posing with male students raising money for charity

Faculty at East Stroudsburg University are questioning whether the school is too cavalier about sexual assaults and has a double standard when it comes to gender after the university’s president tweeted a photo of herself with scantily clad male students who were raising money for charity.

Last week, President Marcia Welsh tweeted a photo herself with 10 shirtless students from her official account. The students are all part of the Hawthorn Hotties—an informal male student group that raises money for charity by performing as exotic dances and reenacting scenes from the popular film “Magic Mike.”

The Hawthorn Hotties were raising money for the American Cancer Society when the photo was taken.

The tweet irked many members of ESU’s faculty, who already have a strained relationship with the school’s administration. The faculty union blog, the Raging Chicken Press, blamed Welsh’s “itchy twitter [sic] finger” for what they call a public relations nightmare.

“Do you think a male university president who had even the tiniest sense of self-preservation would post a selfie of himself with a group of half-clad female students calling themselves the ‘premiere exotic dancing group’ on campus?” Kevin Mahoney, the author of the post, wrote.

“In an environment in which [Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education] PASSHE universities have seen gut wrenching cuts from a right-wing legislature hell-bent on breaking Pennsylvania’s public higher education system, you’d think the last thing you’d want to do as a university president is give the right-wing ammunition to run to every talk-radio station and fundamentalist church this side of the Delaware River to point to and say: ‘This is what your tax dollars are paying for!’” Mahoney continued.


 
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