Some Helpful of Managing Cold-room Challenges

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Obododimma Oha

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Some Helpful Ways of Managing Cold-room Challenges by Obododimma Oha, on Facebook.

1. Don’t stay too long in your office. Don’t turn your office to your bedroom if you are a lecturer.
2.  Be aware of the presence of mercenaries and beware of them. Unless you want to commit suicide.
3. If a there a room within a room, you have the right to be suspicious! Avoid it by all means!
4. If you are a hunter, you should know that you can be the hunted.
5. If you are trapped in the cold room, get ready to tell your story without protecting anyone or any interest.
6. If you must commit a cold room crime, at least try to be clever. Don’t play your ignoble role as a mumu!
7. It is always better not to fall into a trap. Once trapped, the animal is a “struggler.” When struggling, don’t undermine yourself or make things worse!


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Gbemi Tijani

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Dear Prof Oha,  longest friend.I read your interesting not so complex cold room ethical rules that are not impossible for the vulnerable libidinal captives.I don't think they aren't deeply meditated.Sure it will help neophytes
And inform culpables too.
* Though of course any level of heterosexual affinity is not useless nor libidinous ly empty -- using Obodo s cold room survival guide might be intellectual ly productive not extorting if you dwell more on the 'contents' of the strange babe than her  delicate 'container.
*I have said it elsewhere tacitly repeatedly ,libido rules the world directly or indirectly,or its prominence  can't be jettisoned in the schematic dynamics of politics & measurement of standards in other spheres of life.Tell me which sector of human life is exemplary or completely exonerated from this original cold room captivity?.
*However it's not impossible to be chaste nor remain exclusively monogamous.Another available least psychological & physically expensive is to learn how to practise and perfect good love act with your congruous partner.Its a mutually involved harmless creative  teaching and books can also help.There should be more in the open space of authors than the one I jam into four decades ago when I was surrounded by bevies of brains and beautiful!
Have you ever wondered despite  it's so private yet it's a public affair especially if the processes of intimacy are culturally odd to the community or political or academic echelons in question?Maybe individual Freedom matters.Maybe it's impossible to be cured once the libido virus enormously engulfed  both  parties.
What if all these societal ethics and strict rules don't bother some vulnerable folks becsuse more men than women are biologically  inured in universal dispensing of their fluid either for dominance or just for undefined Perennial.Again a few men are very innocent gentle and morally compliant but are not ecologically immune from stubborn obstinate and seductive opposite gender admirers! Imagine where s discipline? What scriptures or faith knowledge is applicable here to wade off this rampart weakness of humanity? Isn't Holy Spirit always helpful? As Verwer asked  in
 'The Revolution of Love'  Can you be holy without the Spirit?
Outside the academia see different categories of those who have fallen or to make it more paradoxically bold with impunity - they are even transacting with notably underage 'captives' internationally and tell me which continent is exempted.A times I marvel at this world of double tongue,implying one has to really encourage glossolalia CV partly or personal for Holy Spirit control and for the healing of the entire libido-ruled society , fraternity,assemblies,citadels
,congress,leagues advisories,skill  assessment or regulatory boards to mention a few settings of culpability.
As Dr J.O.Abdulmalik , Consultant Psychiatrist ,UCH,Ibadan empirically illustrated and warned and admonished that you don't have to be a psychiatrist to monitor and be an accessible confidant, friend to a colleague  doctor or health worker or patient or any other acquaintance suspicious of lacking zeal or absent in any of the basic or social life activities- be a warm caring  brother. He actually professionally substantiated with local statistics. Could you imagine a 1990 suicide of 3703 in Nigeria alone and globally  every 2 secs someone has committed suicide he presented in a lecture,Curbing The Increasing Trend of Suicide In Nigeria organised by Nigerian Medical Association,OYO STATE as part of her Physician Week held at NMA House Ibadan last Tuesday.
The erudite lecturer stressed that BECAUSE we have different level of Resilience to personal problems or other societal shocks that oddly present themselves-- doctors inclusive-- we should be tacitly vigilant if anything is going awry with colleagues or patients or our neighbors and show love manifest that the person matters previously and shouldn't be neglected whatever the issue at stake with him.He diligently reviewed the suicide factors of Resilience & Vulnerability.For instance outside his presentation , according to  Premium Times online one of the victims of sex scandal at a Lagos University committed suicide prior to public disclosure of the outcome of the report regarding this misdemeanor.whereas others in the same citadel and elsewhere  take it as one of those expected consequences or punitive measures that will follow such expensive cold rooms acts....
Keeping mistresses with ulterior inordinate reward - what's your thought ?A lot got away with it and myriads will never be caught despite ubiquitous portable mobile to record all delightful or discontented that happened.
Continuing peer and professional education other than and in addition to Discipline rooted in Holy Spirit guide will help to maintain hilarity but reduce outrageous or inappropriate relationship in all settings where both men and women mingle or must interact to grow and enhance their role specifics.
My dear  Professor Obododinma  Oha,who was also one time a guest editor of New Poetry Digest and News,an online,2 004-2014- ezine in the USA managed by contributors who  have roamed all genre of the literary world --thank you for provoking 'this again & for TF more grease to the elbow of this human angle platform purposely for the good of all and for town & gown.
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Obododimma Oha

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Thanks, Gbemi. A long intervention, but I read it all. Also, I went to my ancestors and their cobwebbed response was that "Nkila anaghi ata okpukpu a nyabara ya n'olu!" (A dog does not eat the bone that is hung on its neck ).

Sincerely 
Obododimma.

OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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It is precisely because psychoanalytically academics are among those with high libidinal flow( most of which is sublimated into academic work) that they are academics and prime suspects for harassment if adequate checks are not put in place barring traditional ethical constraints.  These traditional ethical constraints have been shorn off by the cosmopolitanism of university life.

This is why one is not surprised that America went through the same phase ( BBC did not  focus on them at the time else the US would not have enjoyed the high rate of committed migrant African academics as it does now) until as we are told they put their house in order.  So from that perspective Nigeria is not unique.  It is the reasons for the increase in the rate of occurrence that needs probing and as it turns out this is part of the general societal comparative decay.

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Dear Prof Oha,  longest friend.I read your interesting not so complex cold room ethical rules that are not impossible for the vulnerable libidinal captives.I don't think they aren't deeply meditated.Sure it will help neophytes
And inform culpables too.
* Though of course any level of heterosexual affinity is not useless nor libidinous ly empty -- using Obodo s cold room survival guide might be intellectual ly productive not extorting if you dwell more on the 'contents' of the strange babe than her  delicate 'container.
*I have said it elsewhere tacitly repeatedly ,libido rules the world directly or indirectly,or its prominence  can't be jettisoned in the schematic dynamics of politics & measurement of standards in other spheres of life.Tell me which sector of human life is exemplary or completely exonerated from this original cold room captivity?.
*However it's not impossible to be chaste nor remain exclusively monogamous.Another available least psychological & physically expensive is to learn how to practise and perfect good love act with your congruous partner.Its a mutually involved harmless creative  teaching and books can also help.There should be more in the open space of authors than the one I jam into four decades ago when I was surrounded by bevies of brains and beautiful!
Have you ever wondered despite  it's so private yet it's a public affair especially if the processes of intimacy are culturally odd to the community or political or academic echelons in question?Maybe individual Freedom matters.Maybe it's impossible to be cured once the libido virus enormously engulfed  both  parties.
What if all these societal ethics and strict rules don't bother some vulnerable folks becsuse more men than women are biologically  inured in universal dispensing of their fluid either for dominance or just for undefined Perennial.Again a few men are very innocent gentle and morally compliant but are not ecologically immune from stubborn obstinate and seductive opposite gender admirers! Imagine where s discipline? What scriptures or faith knowledge is applicable here to wade off this rampart weakness of humanity? Isn't Holy Spirit always helpful? As Verwer asked  in
 'The Revolution of Love'  Can you be holy without the Spirit?
Outside the academia see different categories of those who have fallen or to make it more paradoxically bold with impunity - they are even transacting with notably underage 'captives' internationally and tell me which continent is exempted.A times I marvel at this world of double tongue,implying one has to really encourage glossolalia CV partly or personal for Holy Spirit control and for the healing of the entire libido-ruled society , fraternity,assemblies,citadels
,congress,leagues advisories,skill  assessment or regulatory boards to mention a few settings of culpability.
As Dr J.O.Abdulmalik , Consultant Psychiatrist ,UCH,Ibadan empirically illustrated and warned and admonished that you don't have to be a psychiatrist to monitor and be an accessible confidant, friend to a colleague  doctor or health worker or patient or any other acquaintance suspicious of lacking zeal or absent in any of the basic or social life activities- be a warm caring  brother. He actually professionally substantiated with local statistics. Could you imagine a 1990 suicide of 3703 in Nigeria alone and globally  every 2 secs someone has committed suicide he presented in a lecture,Curbing The Increasing Trend of Suicide In Nigeria organised by Nigerian Medical Association,OYO STATE as part of her Physician Week held at NMA House Ibadan last Tuesday.
The erudite lecturer stressed that BECAUSE we have different level of Resilience to personal problems or other societal shocks that oddly present themselves-- doctors inclusive-- we should be tacitly vigilant if anything is going awry with colleagues or patients or our neighbors and show love manifest that the person matters previously and shouldn't be neglected whatever the issue at stake with him.He diligently reviewed the suicide factors of Resilience & Vulnerability.For instance outside his presentation , according to  Premium Times online one of the victims of sex scandal at a Lagos University committed suicide prior to public disclosure of the outcome of the report regarding this misdemeanor.whereas others in the same citadel and elsewhere  take it as one of those expected consequences or punitive measures that will follow such expensive cold rooms acts....
Keeping mistresses with ulterior inordinate reward - what's your thought ?A lot got away with it and myriads will never be caught despite ubiquitous portable mobile to record all delightful or discontented that happened.
Continuing peer and professional education other than and in addition to Discipline rooted in Holy Spirit guide will help to maintain hilarity but reduce outrageous or inappropriate relationship in all settings where both men and women mingle or must interact to grow and enhance their role specifics.
My dear  Professor Obododinma  Oha,who was also one time a guest editor of New Poetry Digest and News,an online,2 004-2014- ezine in the USA managed by contributors who  have roamed all genre of the literary world --thank you for provoking 'this again & for TF more grease to the elbow of this human angle platform purposely for the good of all and for town & gown.
Gbemi Tijani MST
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This is very funny indeed, precisely because it sounds like some uncontrollably horny professor’s preamble to his own self-defence standing on his two legs there in the dock charged with rampant sexual sampling of his female students and begging please for understanding and some sympathy for his being more libidinally/ sexually super-charged than others of the same male species, even from his student days, that it was God and nature that made him like that:

Eloquent Professor addressing the Judge, pleading for understanding and leniency in the matter, especially if the judge, a fellow human being is a man (and once upon a time (in his youthful days) also sowed his royal oats:  

My lord, as you may well be aware, if I may quote from some reliable authorities,

 “It is precisely because psychoanalytically academics are among those with high libidinal flow (most of which is sublimated into academic work) that they are academics and prime suspects for harassment” etc.

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Do professors eat more melon seeds, oysters and zinc related delicacies than other professionals?
And what has that to do with a lack of self control, ego, power trips and criminality among other things?  And are we to discount sex abuse on American campuses as a thing of the past to justify the argument?


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Obododimma Oha

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Cornelius,
Not offering excuses; just some ways of escape! Maybe I think that avoidance is the best therapy in all areas of wahala! Come to think of it: there seems to be this poetic similarity between "pens" used in grading scripts and "pen*s". Pardon me, a failed poet who could see rhyme schemes everywhere, even forcing some enemies to be neighbours!

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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Lord Obododimma,

That was useful, practical advice from you; let’s hope that they take it to heart.

In a new Naija system of law and order, crime and punishment, Justice should prevail.

In an earlier discussion, it was pointed out that it’s all about power relations, I guess, not only in colleges but also in offices and other workplaces.

“avoidance is the best therapy”?

You do sound a little like St. Paul (“better it is to marry than to burn”) although I’m still unsure as to whether he meant better it is to marry than to burn with an unassuaged passion or unrepentant, to burn later on in the eternally dark fires of hell. So, the kindly advice to the predatory Christian professors is that they marry if they are not already married – and if they are already married – “God helps those who help themselves”, that they assist themselves in overcoming the temptations in tune with their daily prayer, “and lead us not into temptation“, because I do suppose that some of the female students ( vixens) are foxy in the extreme and can use their XXXs  and even their weaknesses as a sexual charm, in which case  the “high libidinal flow”  could cause Professor X’s knees to be weak on the seat  - as in “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak…”

Well, what do you think happens next when she starts crying on her professor’s shoulder?

He tries to comfort her, to calm her down. The devil tells him, “Put your arms around her. Go on. Do it.” Not exactly a case of sexual  harassment

Fact is that avoidance itself is a problem – as OAA would say, “psychologically speaking” and in this case according to the clinical use of the term avoidance therapy is no therapy at all, it only causes greater stress in the already over-stressed system ( the “libidinal flow”) constantly in need of release, and therefore  the constant need of the desirable object…

Again, according to Matthew (maybe, too much to ask of a Nigerian professor) “there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” – so,  voluntary eunuchism  for the sake of Heaven is possible but ( I assume) a difficult solution to the problem of the average rampaging professor.  

Among those who could find it impossible to impose such self-restraint on themselves, I suppose that there could be one or two who in good conscience would be willing to impose castration.

In my humble opinion, even the sin of suicide would not be a more radical solution.

Needless to add that if the judge in question (the presiding judge) should happen to be the father of the female student that has been raped/ violated by the horny professor, he should, of course, expect the maximum punishment, maybe even the death penalty (what Papa Chidi could refer to as “poetic justice” ….

Are there no horny, predatory female professors?

Gbemi Tijani

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Noted.Wisdom from the ancestors --well-loaded with a tacit warning.Thanks for your ancestral teaching.Gbemi

Obododimma Oha

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Bros Cornelius,
Do I sound like Paul? Not my portion (or is it "potion" in Nigerian English?). Anyway, marrying in order not to burn is not avoidance! It is plunging into the deepest part of the murky pool. Avoidance means not going near the pool! Onye Imo huru ukwu ya, ka o na-eburu (Anyone whose legs are sighted by River Imo is the one carried away). 

And this beef you seem to have with "Christian" lecturers. Hmm.Leave me hand o! My hand no dey!

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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Dear Lord Obododimma,

Like it or like it not, from Paul’s point of view, marrying in order not to burn is avoidance of sin (fornication)

After my full immersion experience in Umuahia in June 1981, Heaven forbid that I should have any “beef” or even goat head soup with any but the so-called "Christian" lecturers. The unbaptised may well wonder how come I don’t have any beef with Nigeria’s wonderful Muslim professors and lecturers? The point is that in that BBC Documentary “Sex for grades” no Muslim lecturer is under the radar, rather, it’s a disgusting professor who also happens to be a pastor, as he self-confesses to his seventeen-year-old female victim and prays with her “ in Jesus’ name” before he proposes that he starts some regular extra-marital sex with her, assuring her that her parents will not know, and that from that moment on what happens between them will be a holy secret and nobody’s business but their own.  I have not watched the documentary beyond that point. Assuredly, the Pastor-Professor must be well-acquainted with all the stuff from St. Paul the woman-hater and what Jesus is reported to have said in the Gospel according to Matthew, about men becoming eunuchs “for the sake of Heaven”.  Not really such a big deal. In classical Hinduism the student adept takes a voluntary vow of brahmacharya ( which does not mean that young Hindu men who are under no such obligations, do not invade the red-light district in what was old Bombay, as they did in the late September of 1977 when I was taken for some sight-seeing there ( after three months of brahmacharya, here. The whole place was dripping – vaporised with the scent of semen)

Since there is no monkhood in Islam, there is no room or place for the kind of hypocrisy and scandals about e.g. paedophile priests, perverts,  or their sexual slavery of nuns, not to mention sexual predators of the criminal professorial class.

Advantage: There is no monkery in Islam

Naija educational staff should take your advice to heart - starting with your first commandment:

Don’t stay too long in your office. Don't turn your office to your bedroom if you are a lecturer”

In other words, “See me in the office!” should not be a coded expression for a tryst . And if “See me in the office” is innocent and well-intentioned, there’s no telling what happens after the female student starts crying on the professor’s shoulder. If the professor happens to be a pastor it should  certainly be time for him to say, “ Get thee behind me Satan!” or time for him to run because  Satan  will begin to whisper  indecent suggestions in his ear, and even the fallen angels do not need too much encouragement to take the wrong direction.  The experienced man knows that he cannot start dancing near a fire without catching fire and that “one thing leads to another”; putting his arms around her could lead to spontaneous combustion – like soaking yourself with kerosene and dancing near the fire or her perfume.

Apart from the office venue, it’s quite possible that female student and male teacher meet at a dance. Perhaps, nothing wrong with dancing cheek to cheek

The female student sometimes has to sing this song: Mister, please go easy with me

Before entering the classroom full of alluring female students, the wise Muslim teacher says, audhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim…

Obododimma.
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