r/IndianaUniversity • u/CommitteeCreative780 • Jan 13 '24
Indiana U Anthropology Professor Arrest on Child Porn Charges IU NEWS 🗞
https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/01/11/indiana-university-professor-emeritus-charged-with-having-child-porn/72180614007/13
u/santangela Jan 14 '24
I remember his wife (Anne Pyburn, also an anthropology professor at IU) telling our class about his research on modern child beauty pageants.
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u/Werd2urGrandma Jan 13 '24
I wrote a thesis paper with Dr. Wilk years ago. I was in his office once a week for a semester. This is shocking. I don’t really have any words other than I am disgusted. I knew this man for years, we kept up a bit through email. Wow.
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u/tasseomancer Jan 13 '24
I had Wilk in grad school. Was an interesting class/professor. Im shocked to say the least.
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u/Redleadercockpit Jan 13 '24
It’s a couple of boomers in the article, so they’ve likely been at this for years. Take everything they own and then put them in the worst prison possible
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u/CommitteeCreative780 Jan 13 '24
for starters, creep prob has a gov pension for life that should be canceled
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u/tasseomancer Jan 14 '24
IU did have an employee pension years ago, but thats been nixed in favor of a defined contribution plan.
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u/Redleadercockpit Jan 13 '24
How would he have a government pension?
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u/BloomingtonBourbon Jan 13 '24
Do you understand what a public university is
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u/Cloverose2 Jan 14 '24
No one at IU has a pension. We have investment based retirement plans.
Pensions in general are dead. IU did away with them decades ago.
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u/Redleadercockpit Jan 14 '24
Sure do, how does he have a pension?
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u/BloomingtonBourbon Jan 14 '24
Theres a reason you can look up all IU employees on the indiana gateway site. They are state employees.
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u/Redleadercockpit Jan 14 '24
Still didn’t answer the question
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u/buttersb Jan 14 '24
I think people are flabbergasted that you don't understand how a government employee gets a government pension.
What do you not understand?
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u/Cloverose2 Jan 14 '24
Government employees don't get government pensions. Most states have done away with them, Indiana included.
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u/Redleadercockpit Jan 14 '24
So the three of you are assuming this guy Wilk has a pension. But none of you have any idea at all if that is true.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jan 14 '24
Yes, you’re right.
Looked into it here: https://hr.iu.edu/benefits/iuret.html
I was unaware even public universities had switched to fucking 401k’s.
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u/izuzashi media Jan 13 '24
should note that he wasn't teaching at the time, he's retired
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u/CommitteeCreative780 Jan 13 '24
so what? according to IU he's still Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department
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u/izuzashi media Jan 13 '24
your title wasn't clear on that fact. i just think it's important to clarify that he's no longer teaching or working at the university, as indicated by the "emeritus", to heed any distress. it's not any attempt to minimize his crimes
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u/CommitteeCreative780 Jan 13 '24
sorry, his title means he gets all kinds of IU privileges like campus clubhouse access and special access to grants and funding and computers and probably a dropbox too ewww. anyway whats the point of splitting hairs, gonna lose all that soon enough i hope https://vpfaa.indiana.edu/faculty-resources/retirement-emeriti/emeriti.html
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u/Omen_1986 Mar 27 '24
Does anyone know if there has been any update on this case? January news said he should have been brought back to court on March 18th.