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Article: Man trouble. (Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire prep school sex scandal) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 31, 1992
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A SEX SCANDAL has erupted at one of the nation's top prep schools, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where Larry Lane Bateman, chairman of the drama department, is alleged to have been seducing boys and making pornographic videos of them. A former student says Mr. Bateman coaxed him into an affair after videotaping him in the nude; but he says he ended the affair when he became convinced that Mr. Bateman was using boys as young as six years old. Mr. Bateman denies the charges.
Whatever the truth of the matter, Mr. Bateman gave plenty of notice of his leanings. His PhD dissertation in 1975 included two plays he had written about male teachers who seduced ...