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Texas Tech Prof Loses Endowed Chair After Surfing for Porn With Video Feed Still on After Teaching Distance Learning Class

Paul Caron

Hicks KCBD, Students May Have Witnessed TTUHSC Professor Surfing for Sexual Material:

50-year-old Texas Tech Health Sciences Professor Rod Hicks was instructing students this week from Austin via teleconference. We're told that when the class ended, he left the video feed open. This is when students on the other side of the feed saw Hicks surfing for sexual material. …

We've learned through an open records request that Hicks was removed Thursday from his professorship of the endowed chair.

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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