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Gerald Elias: Music teachers should be honest, not intimidating

Some teachers may think that by culling the herd through derisive negativity, they’re doing their students a favor in the long run.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brittany Farnsworth, left, and Camille Weber at Farnsworth's home in Bluffdale. They had not previously met but agreed to be photographed together. Weber, a senior at Utah State University, filed a Title IX complaint against a USU professor last year and described an "extreme culture of favoritism" within the piano department. Farnsworth, who attended USU from 1998 to 2000, says she was denied lessons she had paid for and heard sexist talk within the department.