Besieged on campus by amorous female students, University of Alabama economics professor Gary A. Hoover relocated to a home 45 miles away. “I don’t want to end up in a bar and see some nice-looking lady,” he told the Chronicle of Higher Education, “and then come to find out, ‘I’m in your Tuesday/Thursday class.’” It’s the unlikely but true story of too-attractive academics. They reap the benefits of the beauty premium–attractive people tend to be better rewarded by the job market–but find being gorgeous a professional burden. [%comments]
The Campus Beauty Tax
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As a University of Georgia professor, I have unfortunately never suffered from this problem. Or maybe it’s fortunate, given I’m married.
Cry me a river.
There’s also positive externality because students pay more attention to attractive professors. But if they’re too gorgeous, then the focus might not be entirely on the lecture anymore.
Is this the whole article? Did I click on USA Today by accident?
What’s he doing hitting on women that much younger than him anyway?
You bring back the fond memory of my beautiful French teacher Mademoiselle Rule, who would try -in vain-to teach me French verbs while scaring me senseless in class with her long legs and perfume and silken, sexy…but I digress.
….”Votre grenouille a mangé mon dejeuner”
When I was a young professor in California, I was amused by the attention until one woman started stalking me. Not a pleasant experience.
That’s one of the problems I share with Dennis Kucinich and Henry Waxman.