In a mass email and blogpost last night, Hugo Schwyzer confirmed what he told this website the day before — that he intends to resign his teaching position at Pasadena City College.
In the email, Schwyzer, who last week acknowledged multiple recent sexual relationships with students, cited “the advice of my doctors and the pressure from the public and the PCC community” as prompting the decision to quit. In the blogpost, he said merely that “I will not be returning to my teaching position at Pasadena City College, a position I have held since 1993.”
Schwyzer had previously suggested that he would use his ongoing employment at PCC as leverage in his attempt to secure a retirement agreement. Though he now says that he will “will transition into disability retirement status” at the end of his current medical leave, his application for disability retirement is apparently still pending with the state.
PCC administrators say that Schwyzer’s plans to quit will not derail the college’s investigation of his sexual misconduct. The college’s general counsel, Gail Cooper, told the PCC student newspaper yesterday that “people resign, but that doesn’t mean you don’t investigate because there are still victims.”
October 2 Update | Despite multiple reports to the contrary, Schwyzer has not yet “unequivocally and irrevocably” resigned from PCC, and the college is now moving to terminate him if he does not do so. In the wake of a DUI incident last week in which Schwyzer seriously injured a woman while under the influence of prescription drugs, the college is stepping up its efforts to remove Schwyzer from its payroll on an accelerated schedule.
In a letter dated yesterday, a college attorney informed Schwyzer that district officials consider his “recent conduct and the past conduct which [he has] revealed in [his] recent public statements and writings as grounds for termination.” Formal efforts to remove him from his position will begin, the letter said, “well before” the January 1, 2014 date that Schwyzer has announced for his intended resignation.
The letter advised Schwyzer that he can avoid removal or other disciplinary action if he “unequivocally and irrevocably” resigns.
In the second media interview that he has given since announcing his retirement from public life two days ago, Schwyzer told the Los Angeles Daily News today that although he is “guilty” and “worthy of perhaps being terminated,” he was “also a successful professor” whose “entire career is not defined by a few affairs with students.” He is asking, he said, that the college “forestall termination until December 31” — apparently because his retirement benefits will not kick in until January 1.
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September 12, 2013 at 4:11 pm
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Oh, have I been missing all the Schwyzer Quits Shenanigans and Hugo inflicted melodramas?
Oh God! Save Us All From Schwyzer – The King of Feminist Sleaze will no doubt now decide that he is the Worlds Greatest Bloody Authority on Disability and set out to Cripple everyone?
Darling Hugo is so pernicious, he will try anything and anyone! Tried Feminism – Socialism – Religion – Self-mutilation – Bi-sexuality – Murder and More – and now the World Of Eternal Disability Beckons? Is there a pattern of concern here – and issue of revelation and even versatility of image to gull others and hide his past over and over?
Maybe he will have to turn to real porn performances and getting jiggy with a pensioner or three, and sell his own patented (or would it be copyrighted) facial care range. There just aint the money on Chinchilla breading that there used to be.
He really is not safe to be left unattended with anyone who could be classified as vulnerable – and I would include the US Marine Core in that grouping. I’m just waiting for Blessed Hugo to announce that he also has combat related PTSD from being beaten to a pulp publicly by so many Gender Warriors in tweets covered in kevlar, that he really has to have multiple purple hearts and control all Gender Combat related PTSD globally – if not Universally.
I wonder of he will NOW – ever so belatedly – apologise for throwing sexual abused children under the bus when they got in his way?
I will say that again – I wonder of he will NOW apologise for throwing sexual abused children under the bus when they got in his way?
Hugo has been asked very publicly, even on his own blogs, to apologise for that abuse since 24 November 2011. http://preview.tinyurl.com/njnayby
He’s been asked on his own blog (‘quelle surprise’, comments deleted) and also by email which of course he would not actually acknowledge receiving. But not matter how much The darling Schwyzer tries to hide reality, or his use of buses to abuse others, the truth is still out there, and Dear Dear Hugo knows it.
His silence has been ever so revealing and pre-dates so much of his demise – before he ran from GMP – before his past murderous and rapin ways exploded post a dubious and self aggrandising interview – before book writers, blog owners and so many other showed Hugo the door.
I still wonder at why “The I’m In Recovery and doing 12 steps for booze and drugs Schwyzer” kept missing the basics of recovery? It’s quite something when people have to tell him publicly that his use of other people’s lives and the damage he has inflected upon them is not his to bandy about. Step 8:”Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” – For Hugo that one stopped at make a list and then he just had to blog about it all, re-victimising everyone for his own ego and pageview stats !
It seems that one thing Hugo Hates is anyone who can show him for what he truly is. And when it happens, you can be assured that Hugo will throw all the smoke and mirrors he can find to deflect attention and hopefully escape in the haziness and mental smog he lives within. It is so odd that Hugo’s demise started in November 2011, and yet he has done so much to divert attention and tantrums away from the relevant dates.
Hugo just had to run from throwing all them abused kids under the bus, and he is still hoping that people won’t notice and ask him why he did it!
I do wonder if there is any leverage to be used against St Schwyzer – Gender Warrior and Knight of the Black “Chain” Mail – in asking him when he will apologise to all the abused children he so publicly sacrificed upon the alter of his Ego?
It’s not as if it wasn’t a hot topic – Sandusky and Joe-pa were all over the front pages!
Draling Hugo has apologised for fucking students – for his fraud – using other people’s life stories as grist to his Ego Grinder (even if he had to be gagged with a court order before the light bulb went on) – he’s even apologised for his racism – but he still aint taken ownership of throwing sexually abused children under the bus because he was made to look foolish when their reality was discussed in public and he could not cope with the implications.
In this case the reasons were simply a Humongous Hugo Ego. Hugo never was one for being academic enough to do even basic fact checking or reading – I still howl with laughter at being called an Anally Retentive Little Scholar for pointing out that Hugo’s claims as to the origin of the tern gas-lighting were pure invention. Hugo has always been so lazy and arrogant he couldn’t even be bothered to look at Wikipedia. Crass, Juvenile and Brattish are simply not enough when it comes to assessing the academic competency of The Schwyzer . When you look at the pantheon of his ineptitude, one has to wonder why it took some folks so long to see the light. (More Worrying, some are still caught in his Svengali beams and defending him with their lives and twitter accounts).
The sooner Mr Sociopath Schwyzer is put out to pasture – alone – behind electrified hurricane fencing … On Mars, the better.
It is not just that Old Hugo is a menace – even now his ego is blocking out the light that needs to be shone on some real nasty cases hiding behind him, and who are happy to hide behind his “Foot Light Fanny” ways and him seeking yet more attention! The Schwyzer Drama Show was hackneyed in its first season. Now in it’s third, it really is time for Mr S to stop thinking he’s one of the Kids From Fame! He’s a danger and a toxic hazard that needs to be contained. Where is Erin Brokovitch when you need her!
Dark Triad people are the nastiest to deal with – Machiavellian, Narcissistic and Sociopathic. Dear Hugo is really quite an amateur and paling into insignificance with every tweet! He’s now just using Blackmail as a way to infer contrast and depth within his two dimensional mind set.
The sooner all Schwyzer’s past sycophants also make restitution, the better. There is such a long list, and all those who attacked others for raising REAL concerns have one load on crawling to do as abject apology for their willing abuse of so many others. So many think that Schwyzer is a significant issue, when the reality is he’s history and far to many of his twittering mates aint up to learning the lessons.
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