TACOMA, Wash. - Authorities in Washington say a former Tacoma Community College music instructor tricked a teenage voice student to take off her clothes while singing in hopes she would reach lower octaves. The Tacoma News Tribune reports 37-year-old Kevin Gausepohl is charged with seven counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and one count of obstructing a law enforcement officer. Investigators say he told a Gig Harbor High School student he was conducting a study on how sexual arousal affects vocal ranges. The girl was 17 at the time. She was attending the school as part of the Running Start program that allows high schoolers to take college courses. Other students told investigators they were also approached by Gausepohl, who resigned in October and denies the allegations.
I know the guy's a dirty perv and all, but this strikes me as funny.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:43 am
Running Start allows a high school girl to take a college level course when she ain't smart enough to keep her clothes on when a perve suggests she strip to sing better?
Wow...
She obviously doesn't deserve what happened but that in no way takes away from the fact that's she's apparently stupid.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:49 am
To be fair, there are guys that trick adult women into sending them nude pics in the name of diagnosing illness or what have you. One born every minute, and this guy was an authority figure.
You ever see that TV movie with Bill Shatner recreating a famous uni experiment, where people were pushed into giving subjects what they thought were lethal shocks by a white-coated authority figure? In the movie, one woman was a holocaust survivor, and she was destroyed by realizing how easily she had given in to authority. Probably a lot of lawsuits came out of that experiment.
It's still funny tho, and the highschooler in me asks why I didn't think of stuff like that in those days.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:07 pm
andyt wrote:
To be fair, there are guys that trick adult women into sending them nude pics in the name of diagnosing illness or what have you. One born every minute, and this guy was an authority figure.
You ever see that TV movie with Bill Shatner recreating a famous uni experiment, where people were pushed into giving subjects what they thought were lethal shocks by a white-coated authority figure? In the movie, one woman was a holocaust survivor, and she was destroyed by realizing how easily she had given in to authority. Probably a lot of lawsuits came out of that experiment.
It's still funny tho, and the highschooler in me asks why I didn't think of stuff like that in those days.
Straying off topic...
In the Milgram experiment you mention, another interesting factor was that many of the subjects dealing out the "shocks" felt guilt while comitting the acts and said things like "I'm not going to be held responsible for this" even as they continued to "electrocute". So the idea that people will do horrible things if an authority figure tells them to AND/OR if they think they wont be personally held accountable. We like to think that evil things are only done by extraordinarily evil people, but experiments like this just go to show how that normal average seemingly "decent" people like you and me can be go along with or actively participate in unspeakable acts. I would love to see if a similar experiment would work in modern society (less deferenc to authority more individualism) but unfortunately such experiments are largely banned or frowned upon.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:25 pm
It would still work. I don't think there's been that much change since the 60's. And just change up the authority figure customized to the group being studied.
Milton Friedman says cut taxes and de-regulate and we'll all be rich, and all the neocons do unspeakable things to the economy.
George Bush says we have to defeat the terrorists in Iraq, and the US does unspeakable things to that country.
etc
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:44 pm
andyt wrote:
It would still work. I don't think there's been that much change since the 60's. And just change up the authority figure customized to the group being studied.
Milton Friedman says cut taxes and de-regulate and we'll all be rich, and all the neocons do unspeakable things to the economy.
George Bush says we have to defeat the terrorists in Iraq, and the US does unspeakable things to that country.
etc
Still on about Bush, eh? That's okay. I'll let you have your say about Iraq. Meanwhile I can point out the unspeakable things that Clinton did to the USA.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:55 pm
No! Bad Bart! A politician's party affiliation defines them much more than their actions!
BeaverFever
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:17 pm
Come on bart, are you saying that Bill Clinton pulled the trigger at Ruby Ridge and Waco and was in the operations centre running the show.
Gimme a break.
Law enforcement was enforcing the law against criminals who violated it, and they got all gung-ho. They botched the job as they sometimes do and innocent people died. That this is somehow Bill Clintons doing is ridiculous. If Dubya or Bush Sr. had been president at that time, the same thing would've happened.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:29 pm
... and Obama single-handedly caught and killed OBL.
DanSC
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:34 pm
raydan wrote:
... and Obama single-handedly caught and killed OBL.
Obama just wishes he could have done that himself, though others have tried an failed.
Remember, after 9/11, when Dick Cheney disappeared to a secure location?
He was actually in Afghanistan hunting OBL.
True Story.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:56 pm
No, actually he was hunting quail in Corpus Christie that were fenced in, socialized to not fear humans and had their wings clipped so they could barely fly. While doing so, he accidentally shot another old man in the face. And then the victim apologized to HIM!
THAT'S a true story.
BeaverFever
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:57 pm
No, actually he was hunting quail in Corpus Christie that were fenced in, socialized to not fear humans and had their wings clipped so they could barely fly. While doing so, he accidentally shot another old man in the face. And then the victim apologized to HIM!
THAT'S a true story.
DanSC
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:00 pm
The ability to read context is weak with this one.
raydan
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:18 pm
DanSC wrote:
raydan wrote:
... and Obama single-handedly caught and killed OBL.
Obama just wishes he could have done that himself, though others have tried an failed.
No, no, no... he was president at the time so it was him that did it. Anything that has happened in the USA (and probably the world) since he's been president is his doing, the good and the bad.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:21 pm
andyt wrote:
It's still funny tho, and the highschooler in me asks why I didn't think of stuff like that in those days.
Wasn't it you that was upset that people weren't taking a 14 year old boy being seduced more seriously?
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