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Tom Powers: Norwood Teague is gone, but damage at UMN lingers

In the aftermath of the Norwood Teague scandal, it's clear that everyone is appropriately outraged. With one voice the community has declared: Sexual harassment is bad. Hey, no kidding. Tell me something I don't know.

Like how to get rid of this icky feeling.

This is almost unthinkable. At an institution that strives to be all things to all people, where everyone's views and beliefs simmer contentedly in an earthenware pot, where sensitivity is considered a virtue right next to cleanliness and, well, just cleanliness, at a place where educators are contractually obligated to use the words "empowerment" and "proactive" in every other sentence, a perv crawled in through the water pipe.