Sexist remarks on blog cause prof's firing

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<p>BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A former Boston Herald columnist was fired from a part-time job teaching journalism at Boston University after posting a note on an Internet site that a female student was "incredibly hot."</p>

<p>Michael Gee, a 17-year veteran of the Herald, was hired by Boston University to teach an introductory journalism course. He had been among dozens of staffers who left the newspaper this spring amid job cuts.</p>

<p>On July 5, Gee wrote on the sportsjournalists.com Web site about his first day teaching and mentioned the student, according to a Web log run by sports media critic David Scott on <a href="http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.bostonsportsmedia.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>"Of my six students, one (the smartest, wouldn't you know it?) is incredibly hot. ... It was all I could do to remember the other five students."</p>

<p>Gee was fired July 13, according to Bob Zelnick, chairman of BU's journalism department. Zelnick said the posting violated the trust essential to the student-teacher relationship.
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/07/19/ex.columnist.fired.ap/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/07/19/ex.columnist.fired.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Where's that "Here's your sign" guy when you need him.</p>

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<p>audiophile, LOL. That sign guy would come in handy. Wouldn't he?</p>

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<p>I think a better title for the original post would have been "Journalist's sexist remark leads to his firing as adjunct prof." A subtitle might have been -- second time he was fired in recent months.</p>

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<p>OH CMON. GIVE THE PROFESSOR A BREAK!! HAHAHA what a pimp.</p>

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<p>There certainly has been an interesting amount of articles written recently about losing jobs due to blogging. Why, why, why does anyone think that anything they write on the internet (message boards included!) is private?</p>