COVER- Sofka's support: Students stand by their man

Published
and in print issue #0418 dated Thursday May 5th, 2005

While some of Jim Sofka's former female students have accused him, anonymously, of inappropriate behavior, the mood on Grounds seems hardly judgmental.

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-golub.jpg"> Erin Golub
Third year
"I want to have him for a class. People say he's a really good professor, and he teaches really well."

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-kehlenbeck.jpg"> David Kehlenbeck
Second year
"I haven't really followed it that closely, so I don't have thoughts on it one way or the other."

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-willey.jpg"> Josh Willey
First year
"Friendship with a professor is okay, but there's a line. I really have no idea if he crossed it."

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-schad.jpg"> Alex Schad
Third year
"I think he should get a hearing."

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-spavins.jpg"> Lizzie Spavins
Second year, Echols scholar
"I've never heard of anyone who had a bad experience with him."

<img src="/images/issues/2005/0418/cover-kim.jpg"> Meereena Kim
Third year, onetime Echols Scholar, now in the Commerce School
"I think he's a very wonderful professor. I really wanted to send him a card that said, 'I believe in you.' I hope everything works out for him career-wise and in what he thinks of himself. When you put someone down like this, the self-doubt can be devastating."
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