Slog - Comments on Seattle U Professor Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a Stranger news intern Chris Kissel—continuing the proud tradition of news interns breaking news about child prostitution—scoops the dailies in Seattle University's newspaper today, The Spectator, reporting that an SU military science professor, Andrew Franz, has been arrested in Colorado on charges of criminal solicitation, enticement of a child, sexual assault on a child, trafficking in children, soliciting for child prostitution, pandering of a child and inducement of child prostitution, as well as a misdemeanor charge for unlawful sexual contact. According to Chris's story, Franz was on contract from the army to teach at SU, and had just gotten married. Read... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 14:08:09 -0800 Thu, 15 May 2008 13:11:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Brian He really wanted to be a Jesuit it seems.

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024604 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:19:00 -0800 Comment by elenchos It's cool and props and all, but the Cañon City Daily Record was the newspaper that broke this story. Chris Kissel found their story and linked to it. He won the Internet race, which is awesome, but is winning the Internet race "scooping the dailies?"

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024616 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:27:25 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt (soon to be Balt-o-matt) Blech. Blechitty blech blech. WTF is wrong with these people?

]]> Michigan Matt (soon to be Balt-o-matt) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024631 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:33:44 -0800 Comment by Felix Franz ran unsuccessfully for the WA state legislature in 2006 as (drumroll, please) ... a Republican.

]]> Felix http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024643 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024643 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:27 -0800 Comment by Tlazolteotl I guess he really, really doesn't want to get deployed to Iraq.

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024660 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:44:17 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Maybe SU needs to adopt a no-Republican hiring policy.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024670 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024670 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 14:50:39 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I agree with Fnarf. There are tons of Dems with combat service they could have hired.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024694 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:02:07 -0800 Comment by Jeff Erica, way to turn a story about enticing a child for sex into a dig at the dailies (even if you were incorrect as to who scooped who).

You must really enjoy the taste of your own foot.

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024716 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024716 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:55 -0800 Comment by Bub Maybe I have a perverse sense of humor, but I have to laugh when I think of a sexual predator FLYING to meet his/her (his) victim. The predator is imagining all sorts of things that they will do. The excitement. The anticipation of the forbidden meeting. And the climax of the story, waiting at the destination? A fat, adult police officer, with big fists, waiting to arrest.

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024726 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:17:45 -0800 Comment by Seanford This is somewhat of a less impressive "news break" since the university sent out a massive email about it to everyone on campus before that story was published.

]]> Seanford http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024741 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:22:15 -0800 Comment by Seanford SU did not hire him, Franz was appointed to the ROTC program by the U.S. Army as an employee of a Virginia company called Communications Technologies, which provides personnel to the Department of Defense for ROTC programs around the country.

]]> Seanford http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024744 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024744 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:25:25 -0800 Comment by inkweary How can anyone still believe they are actually going to meet up with (insert fixation here) after all of the publicity these stings engender?

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024749 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:26:51 -0800 Comment by lostboy Will in Seattle @7:
I agree with Fnarf.
Oh yeah, that went in to a SlogTip.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024757 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024757 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:19 -0800 Comment by Bauhaus He'd just gotten married? Hmmm. Poor wife.

Fuck! These past few days have been disastrous for my academic institutions. First was the SDSU scandal and now this. Should I have saved a huge amount of dough and gotten my degrees online at University of Phoenix?

]]> Bauhaus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024766 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:34:25 -0800 Comment by laterite How many Slog posts stem from, or at least link to, a "print" media source? Or if the source is another blog, that blogger found a link to another blog, which found the story at a TV or print media site?

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024777 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:39:11 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Maybe SU needs to adopt a no-ROTC policy.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024820 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 15:59:06 -0800 Comment by Non These kinds of stories are always better with a mugshot!!

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024853 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024853 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 16:14:25 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @13 - I do it a lot more often than you realize.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024948 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 16:58:46 -0800 Comment by some dude @6 - su is pretty openly hostile to republicans already. conservative students often complain of a hostile environment.

@16 - the rotc building at su was torched in the 60s

]]> some dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024951 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 17:00:36 -0800 Comment by some dude correction:
The unrest was not without its spectacular side. On January 19, 1970, a bomb went off between the Garrand and Liberal Arts buildings. In March of that year, arsonists set fire to Xavier Hall, timed to the appearance of Barry Goldwater on campus. In one final act of violence, on May 6, 1972, a large bomb exploded beneath the steps of the ROTC building, blowing out every window on the facing side of Loyola Hall. Miraculously, in all of these incidents, no one was injured.
http://www.seattleu.edu/home/history/fla/section6.html

]]> some dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024959 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024959 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 17:02:54 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Hostility good. Bombs bad. That was almost forty years ago.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1024976 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 17:14:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Heck, Sen McCain is so old his wife was getting high on acid when I was a baby.

Oh, sorry, meant his mistress - his wife was at home with the two little girls he was not being a good father to.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025158 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:44 -0800 Comment by Seattlestudent Please explain how this is a basis for judging ROTC programs.

]]> Seattlestudent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025283 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025283 Conflict of Interest Thu, 15 May 2008 00:20:18 -0800 Comment by me He is actually a great person, it was completely shocking for me to hear this. Hopefully he doesn't have prior victims. Hopefully the good people at SU's rotc program can move on.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025290 Conflict of Interest Thu, 15 May 2008 00:49:39 -0800 Comment by Lawrence What in the world is ROTC doing on the campus of a Jesuit University? That just doesn't make sense given the mission of service to God and humanity that the university represents. Perhaps there are some old-school alumni who would be unhappy if ROTC left campus.

]]> Lawrence http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025767 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/seattle_u_professor_arrested_on_sexual_a#c1025767 Conflict of Interest Thu, 15 May 2008 13:11:00 -0800