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Jude Legiste
LA CROSSE — A UW-La Crosse dorm director who offended some students and parents with an email tutoring men how to help women overcome an “orgasm deficit” has apologized and was reprimanded.
Drake Hall Director Jude Legiste sent the graphic email, which includes pejorative terms for men’s and women’s genitalia, to the nearly 300 students who live in Drake at 11:46 p.m. Wednesday with the subject line, “You Gone Learn Today!!” [...] contents of the email [...] written by him but contained a short paper on the topic.
The 26-year-old Legiste has since learned that university officials have put a reprimand in his file, [...] emailed an apology Sunday night.
“I didn’t think it through,” [...] “For me, a large part of it was to start a conversation about gender equity.”
The email didn’t faze some students, although others found it offensive, and some parents called Legiste’s supervisors with strong objections, [...]
“I was wrong, and I take full responsibility,” said Legiste, who said he is paid about $32,000 a year for his job as hall director.
Legiste’s emailed apology said, [...] “My entire mission is to create a community in which people feel safe and welcomed.
“The email I sent out … was the antithesis of everything I want Drake to be. As your hall director, it is my job to role model appropriate behavior, inclusiveness and develop community,” he wrote.
“I failed you in all those aspects and more. This bad decision led to lots of hurt for many residents and it is important for me to acknowledge this,” wrote Legiste, who has an economics degree from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a master’s in higher education administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
“We think the email was very inappropriate, and he has been reprimanded,” UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Monday. “He has issued an apology, and I think he has learned a lot from this about the proper forums for discussions of sexuality.”
Asked if Legiste would lose his job, Gow said: “I think firing would be an over-reaction.”
“Part of the challenge is that the news reporting can’t convey” how graphic the language is, Gow said. “I was pretty stunned by the headline and puzzled by the fact that he didn’t realize people would be offended.”
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