Some people are shitting on this trauma dump, but I can tell you first hand that this is a major problem at universities, and especially in the arts.
So much of your academic career is built upon interpersonal relationships that if you a professor hates you or sabotages you that can mean you never get a fellowship, internship, can't graduate, can't get into grad school, can't get that first teaching position, can't get a grant...
Everything is built on recommendations, committees (especially in the arts), inside baseball on journal publications, etc. Even in our litigious, sexual-harassment sensitive world a professor can have massive power over a student in a way an employer, for example, cannot. Unless you've been an academic you may not get this.
It's easy to be manipulated at 18, and the real and perceived power can make one feel like she cannot say "no" without losing everything, including all social connections, which tend to be concentrated in the department for arts students. At the same time, your career depends on schmoozing other academics... Keeping your distance has costs.
Seen MANY inappropriate things, including sexual misconduct.
Never seen a professor suffer meaningfully for it. I don't know what the academic equivalent of the blue wall of silence is, but it's real, at least in the arts. I suspect as much from the sciences given our current research schizophrenia but I haven't witnessed it firsthand, and I doubt students are spending as much unrestricted time with instructors in STEM as they are in music.
A personal comic about my experiences with a professor.
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