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Incident 7855 - Resolved

Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Ceramics
Outcome Year: 1993
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: "Associate Professor Gary Schlappal, hired in 1987, was accused of inappropriate sexual misconduct; the allegations included that he had sex with a student in his office multiple times and also had sex with a student while a kiln overheated, all reported in a Journal Sentinel article written by Tom Vanden Brook.

He was also charged for another alleged comment about one of his pottery students, “I had her in a motel room for a month with nothing but a bare bulb swinging over us and she still doesn’t get it.”

Eventually, Schlappal was fired by the UW Board of Regents in 1993."
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