According to a startling investigative investigation, a college professor in Arizona allegedly made his students strip in front of him and their peers, flirted with multiple coeds, and made them view orgy porn during class.
The Arizona Republic’s devastating story details how Mesa Community College officials are actively investigating Mace Archer, 56, a drama teacher, for the claims.
However, before the investigation was launched, students said that the college had ignored their complaints about the professor’s inappropriate behavior for months.
Several of the theater students in Archer’s class at Mesa Community College maintained a running file that they shared with one another, detailing the claimed long list of sexually suggestive content he had exposed them to over a two-year period.
There are almost a dozen anonymous claims in it.
According to one allegation in the paper, the instructor encouraged one of the students to “delve into” her own sexual assault trauma in order to channel it into her stage performances.
He allegedly straddled another student during a mid-class “demonstration” in another instance. He is also charged with showing his students pornographic videos.
He was accused of forcing three female pupils to undress on stage, which was one of the most horrifying charges.
Archer allegedly made the students, some of whom were still in their teens, strip down to their underwear or nothing at all on stage in front of him and their classmates under the guise of “vulnerability exercises” for their midterms.
The purpose of the midterm, according to Gabrielle Monroe, a student in Archer’s class, is to force students to confront their concerns rather than wind up naked, she told the Republic.
However, according to Monroe and other female classmates, that is precisely what Archer made it about.
“On the first day, two women stripped down to their underwear. The person who got naked was on the second day,” she stated. “We all knew what to expect.”
“She was just silent. She just took her clothes off,” Monroe continued. “People were kind of shocked, but it was silent. No music, no talking, nothing.”
Monroe was one of roughly sixteen pupils in a second-level acting course that Archer instructed in order to push the boundaries of the pupils’ terror.
If forcing students to see or urging them to strip during an acting lesson constituted a clear policy violation, school authorities would not tell.
“Because this is an active personnel matter, we cannot provide specific details to protect the privacy of those involved,” spokesperson Lindsey Wilson told on May 19. “Our colleges take any allegations of misconduct seriously and are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and supportive environment for students, faculty, and staff.”
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Wilson promised that, depending on the findings of the investigation, the proper course of action will be taken.
According to the Mesa Police Department, the allegations are not being looked into at this time.
According to the Republic, Archer was appointed co-director of Mesa Community College’s theater program in 2021.
Prior to that, he worked as an artistic director at Mount Hood Community College and as an academic at the University of Tennessee, Randolph College in Virginia. From 2008 to 2014, he also directed a number of productions at the Arizona Broadway Theatre.
