How do people feel about this?
http://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/02/06/professors-take-floor-dance-off/
It seems to me that it is not just male professors dancing with female students, there are also female professors dancing with male students. Considering that they are both adults and willing participants, I don’t have a problem with this as long as there is a line drawn between academic and personal lives
Sounds like female profs are dancing with male students too. Maybe a few same gender teams? Hard to tell from the article. Sounds harmless - a smart prof isn’t going to agree to perform moves that make him/her look as they they are engaging in public sex. (Dumb ones might, but there is no helping some people.) I assume this is a fund-raiser of some sort?
My only objection is the price of admission, $7 for a student is expensive.
As long as married participants have the approval of their spouses, it seems OK to me. Not something I’d encourage my kid or spouse to do. . .but it could be fun for some people.
It’s fine as long as the lights aren’t down low. And, there’s no alcohol involved. 
Married participants have the approval of their spouses? I mean…I’m married and I can’t imagine my spouse having a problem with me doing something like this. I wouldn’t ever imagine asking him for permission; it simply wouldn’t cross my mind.
It sounds cute! It’s like the show Dancing with the Stars, obviously. Professors are humans too, and a lot of them probably have fun with this. Undergrads usually like seeing their profs become regular humans for a night.
$7 is expensive for a student? What?
Sounds fun. I went to a dance last week where some of the department professors were gambling with students and occasionally purchased drinks from the bar. I don’t know anyone who had a problem with it.
And seriously, $7 for an event lasting a few hours is not expensive. I’m sure most students spend at least that much on a typical Friday night out.
What’s the problem? Can’t believe people think there is an issue.
“Male professors dancing with female students” as the headline, really?
I guess it depends but the schools my kids go to rarely charge admission charges at events. If there is a charge, it’s usually like $2 and pretty much voluntary.
It sounds cute and fun to me. I don’t see a problem.
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the show Dancing with the Stars, obviously
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That’s what I was thinking. It’s not dating. lol
That sounds incredibly fun. I think Brown has a active ballroom dance group and this is one way to popularize it, if your prof is willing to take it on learning maybe it will inspire others. Plus it would just be fun to see them competing. I think it is cute that many prof are doing it to impress their own families.
What a headline OP, do you really think the male profs should be dancing only with male students, while the female profs are okay with dancing with the male students?
How do we feel about what? Totally appropriate interaction between a professor ( M or F) and a student (M or F) ? Are faculty and students only to interact in the classroom or faculties office?
I would assume it is a fundraiser.
Willing adults. Don’t care.
Sometimes, dancing is just dancing. There does not have to be anything sexual about it. We over-sexualize everything.
ETA: It would never occur to me to ask permission from my partner to do something like this and I sincerely hope he’d never feel the need to ask me. (As in, we’d both go ahead and do it.)
Its being organized by the Brown Ballroom Dance Team. I think it is great and cannot imagine anyone having a problem with it. Dancing is a good thing. People need to dance more.
Unless we’re using “dancing” as a euphemism (ala horizontal rumba), I don’t see any issues. Sounds fun to me.
Does a spouse need the approval the other to dance? Maybe that is why I have been single for 30 years. Ugh.
Sounds like trouble to me!
to quote a certain Professor Harold Hill:
"One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin’ for the dance at the Arm’ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That’ll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass-steria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil’s playground!
Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!"
Here’s the promo (trailer) for it. It looks like fun!
Way back when…Alumnae Hall–note feminine ending; it’s not a mistake–was where the Pembroke Winter Formal was held. Nowadays, it’s a lecture hall.