Professor's Misconduct: A Greek Tragedy

0:00On April 9th, a 69-year-old Cambridge professor of ancient Greek, Simon Goldhill, faces dismissal after an unwanted slobbery kiss on a female. Student in the King's College Senior Common Room last autumn, he admits to the embrace stroking her body, fiddling with her trousers up, and even slipping his tongue in her ear, possibly by accident. Drunk at the time, he fired off messy apology messages right after. The student in her 20s shoved him away, telling him it left her scared and panicky. She held off complaining until March this year, fearing fallout for her studies since Goldhill's a heavyweight scholar on Greek sexuality with books, in multiple languages. An outside investigation nailed him for breaching university rules on sexual misconduct. No consent for those advances. He taught until October, now on light duties as the Collegeways punishment before his planned retirement this September. The student calls the university's vague outcome letter a gut punch, wrecking her academics in wallet.

1:01Officials insist they handle such cases seriously, but keep details confidential, leaving questions about real accountability in elite halls.