Professor In Australia Asks Students For Sex In Exchange For Better Grades

Sexual harassment has been around for a long time. It comes in many different forms including people in positions of authority asking for sex in exchange for better jobs, better grades, parts in movies and who knows what else. Thankfully I never came across it in my life or my career, but I know it happens all the time and to people I know. Many people take advantage of that to further their careers, and they couldn't care less about the consequences. But that it even exists is beyond comprehension. And it's not just men who do this, there are women who sexually harass as well.

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It's very sad that people feel the need to coerce others into having sex with them in exchange for something but I can only assume it has to do more with some twisted need to wield power over their victims, because they are victims. The usual targets seem to be those that are most vulnerable, as was the case with several Chinese students who were harassed by a Perth University professor in Western Australia.

According to the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) four foreign students were harassed by Dr. Nasrul Ali, who were told that they would get higher grades if they would "satisfy him". One young 20-something Chinese student said Ali arranged to meet her at a McDonald's to discuss her grades.

At their 7pm meeting, Dr Ali told her it was too noisy and asked her back to his home nearby.

"Dr Ali asked (her) how a Chinese student would normally have satisfied a Chinese teacher, to which (she) responded by telling him a Chinese student would try to be a good student and get good grades," the CCC said in its report.

"According to (the student), it was then that he told her that she could live with him. At this time, Dr Ali had his arm along the back of the couch behind her which made her feel uncomfortable."

The academic then said "he wanted her to try and satisfy him, that he wanted her to stay the night (but) she told him that she did not have time" and left.

The same thing happened to two other Chinese women who were told that they too could raise their grades in the same "non-academic" manner. Thankfully the girls did not comply. The fourth student, an Indonesian female, claims that her grades were lowered because she refused to meet up with him while they were visiting Malaysia during the same time period.

Dr. Ali, a professor of Economics and Finance at Curtin University, was fired in 2009 sometime after he was accused of sexual misconduct there. And in spite of the allegations, he's apparently working at another university in the area- Murdoch University- probably doing the same thing to other vulnerable students. And Curtin University officials are fully aware of the fact.

Curtin University is changing its policies with respect to their hiring practices and intend on doing background checks on potential hires, which did not occur at the time Ali was employed.

They also refunded the tuition fees for the four students along with a letter of apology. It's the least they can do.