Prologue
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL EVENING READER
SHAME SCHOOL
In their book. Sex and Society, Kenneth Walker and Peter Fletcher write: "In another human being, man or woman, we see our own living image; another person who possesses an equal right to life, who claims the freedom we claim to make choices and decisions and to take action. For this reason, we cannot without betraying ourselves treat other people as things existing for the satisfaction of our appetites, or to be used as instruments of our private purposes." But it was a type of obsessive selfishness that permeated the faculty sanctums of the large Midwestern university. Pressured by the unwritten publish-or-perish rule, the academicians, male and female, sought solace and relief from tensions in each other's company-but always trying to take, never to give, human compassion.