A longtime professor at Howard University School of Law has been ordered to attend sensitivity training and submit future exam questions for administrative review after several students complained about graphic test question involving a Brazilian wax.
A university administrator in May concluded that the Reginald Robinson’s test question, which appeared on a 2015 quiz in his agency law course, constituted sexual harassment. The university found problems with the question’s language, including the word “genital,” and because some students felt the question—which was part of an intermediate exam used to foster classroom discussion—was intended to force them to reveal whether they had had similar waxes themselves. (Read the test question here.)
