Butthurt: Feckless Williams College Student Journalist Smears the Beloved Dr. Drew

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I woke up this morning to discover that a lame Williams College journalist, Samuel Wolf  '21, had smeared me this morning in a bizarre story about an ex-Williams College philosophy professor who has been busted for banging his students back in the early 1990s.

Williams College professor David
Weisbord remembered 30 years
later for having sex with his students. 

The primary aim of the article was to tell a creepy backstory regarding Joe Biden. Biden was planning to attend a 2020 campaign fundraiser hosted by a lawyer who changed his name after having an affair with a student while he was professor at Williams College. David Sanford, formerly named David Weisbord, and his wife were listed as the hosts of a Biden fundraiser in Bronxville, New York.

According to press reports, Sanford - then David Weisbord - was an associate professor of philosophy at Williams College from 1989 to 1991. A unnamed former student said she had a months long sexual relationship with Sanford as Law & Crime reported in May. Sanford told Law & Crime that he changed his name for "private, family reasons" unrelated to the complaint from the former student. 

The woman in question has gone public and refers to him as an "unscrupulous predator." The irony of this complaint is that Sanford is now a prominent #MeToo activist who is making money going after colleges and universities. 

My name popped up, gratuitously, as a far-fetched example of the how women were treated callously back in 1989. Wolf cited a letter to the editor from April 25, 1989 which went after me for my comments on a radio talk show I did with the honored and courageous John Berger '89 on the topic of abortion. The full text of the letter is below. You should be able to read it better if you click on the image. 

I remember the American Inspiration radio show with great pleasure. John and I worked hard on it every week and included taped comedy bits, political observations, and critiques of the campus left. 

This particular show was a Morton Downey Jr. style broadcast which discussed the pro-life perspective, which was a topic that most at Williams College students and professors were loathe to discuss. In the letter to the editor, the authors suggest, without any quotes or other evidence, that I made what would appear to be a ridiculous statement to the effect "every time a woman enters into a sexual relationship with a man it is willingly." 

Since I was one of the few political scientists in the nation interested in the topic of child abuse and neglect and the sex abuse of children, it seems implausible that I ever said anything to that effect. Even if I did, it would be a bizarre stretch to suggest that I was unaware at the time of the existence of either rape or date rape which, of course, are all rape anyways. 

I don't remember much of what I said on the radio that evening. At best, I might have said something to the effect that women can control whether or not they get pregnant and that there are better ways to practice birth control that aborting your baby. The letter to the editor writers appear twist that sentiment in to the bizarre suggestion that I was unaware of the reality of rape. In all fairness to the letter writers, they appear much more angry at my on-the-air personality than anything I had to say about either abortion or consent in sexual relationships. 

Nevertheless, the feckless Samuel Wolf uses this 30 year-old letter to the editor as a piece of evidence designed to characterize the Williams College culture in which the administration and the Board of Trustees was perfectly okay with male professors banging their undergraduate students. As Wolf writes: 

The College did not explicitly prohibit student-faculty sexual relations at the time, and only officially amended the Faculty Handbook to prohibit such relationships in all cases in spring 2018. Nevertheless, during Sanford’s time at the College, three professors were fired for sexual misconduct with students, and faculty misconduct was a source of campus discussion. A Record article published in 1988 drew attention to male professors at colleges nationwide who coerced female students into sex (“Women suffer peer harassment,” Nov. 15, 1988). A letter to the editor in 1989 critiqued one professor for implying that every sexual encounter between a woman and a man is consensual (“Drew’s behavior on radio show inappropriate,” April 25, 1989).

The actual text of the letter to the editor does not support Wolf's bizarre insinuation that I approved of faculty members banging undergraduates or that my radio performance was some how sexually inappropriate. Logically, my view at the time was most likely that professors (who were overwhelmingly Democrats) should not be having sex with their students because this might cause even more abortions.

Dr. Drew at his home in Williamstown MA with his Oxy
friend Gil Roeder. 

I suspect that Wolf's one sided smear - I was never contacted for a comment - is a sign of desperation among Democrats seeking to get rid of Donald Trump and hide information on their own hypocrisy. As far as I can tell, Wolf is a New Yorker who is well connected with Democrat party officials. He has worked this summer as an intern for U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) and last summer as an intern in the office of the president for the leftist Brennan Center for Justice.

In a larger sense, however, this article is an attempt to harm the interests of white male students on campus by smearing me, one of the few conservative, Republican, white male professors who ever taught at the school. It is an effort to smear one of the folks who resisted affirmative action and then paid a steep personal and profession price for following his convictions, convictions which have not changed 30 years later.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.