The Red and Black

Seriously another douche bag professor doing this stuff? WTF

This is the fourth one, if I'm counting right. Has anyone noticed that we're losing capable faculty members and sometimes entire specialties?

Clearer policies and better management could prevent these incidents before they happen. That's what we need.

shellman was a badass prof...is sexual harassment really all that bad? i mean...come on

Were the people he was molesting males or females? The article doesn't say. The media usually informs us if it is male-on-female harassment being reported, but they protect homosexuals, as if they could do no wrong and were always victims. It's interesting that Shellman has a tie to OU. See my website link.

While I do not know any of the specifics of this case, I do know that Shellman was the most knowledgable, motivating, and interesting professor I have had at the University. My only hope is that this sudden wave of sexual harrassment allegations is driven by some semblance of truth and not from wild sensationalism or misunderstood encounters between teachers and students.

Even if he was a good professor he should not have had done whatever he did. It is not an easy decision to press charges against anybody leave alone your professor. Am sure that the person pressing charges had a reason. No student out here would press frivlous charges against a professor. We should be sympathetic to the victim not the other way round.

I'm a former student of Dr Shellman's, as well as a former employee, and I'm more than a bit surprised by this. Dr Shellman is an incredible professor, and working for him is/was a great experience. I find these allegations somewhat hard to believe, but knowing none of the facts I cannot make a judgment of my own. I'm hoping that this is simply a case of the University being overzealous in trying to compensate for the Blount controversy, but only the finding of the investigation may answer that.

Either way, it's a damn shame.

Professor Shelman was one of the coolest prof Ive had at UGA. I spent countless hours with him one on one during his office hours and he was never anything but completely professional. He is married with a baby daughter and is the epitome of a family man. The only thing i can think of with these allegations is that maybe a student took one of his jokes the wrong way but seriously if you cant take a joke you don't deserve to be at UGA. I'm not saying that sexual harassment is not a serious deal but i just cannot believe this professor would have been capable of disrespecting a student to this extent! This professor is seriously cool as shit. i just feel sorry for all the future students who are not gonna be able to learn from this amazing professor.

Yes, I'm another one of Shellman's former students - and I'm in complete shock. He was and is an incredible professor, not just in his particular specialty in international affairs, but in the community of experts on terrorism (as in the study of it, not practice, obviously). He has been one of the best and brightest in the international affairs department and I have always been proud to count him among one of the faculty members of SPIA. Just keep in mind that no details have been released about this situation as of yet and, regardless, he can count me as one of many students of his Terrorism class who is incredibly thankful to have been a student of his.

Just because there was an ALLEGATION does NOT constitute guilt. Or perhaps you should re-take POLS 1101. Innocent until proven guilty, unless you've forgotten.

I agree with everyone that Dr. Shellman was a great, brilliant professor and I really hope he's able to get his life back together post-UGA. However, it's unfair to make assumptions about the alleged victim of the harassment. Even good people (and professors) can do bad things, and until we know more we shouldn't accuse her of over-reacting anymore than we should accuse him of being evil incarnate.

Speaking of terrorism:

George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

Many people know what Bush did.

And many people will know what Bush did--even to the end of the world.

Bush was absolute evil.

Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

Bush is a psychological prisoner.

Bush has a lot to worry about.

Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

"GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY" BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: "If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded." Oh wait--off of the top of my head--I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.