Rising, the online web series produced by the D.C.-based political newspaper The Hill, Morse denied any wrongdoing and challenged the factual basis some of the allegations that had been made in a letter from the College Democrats of Massachusetts disinviting him from future events.In that letter, the College Democrats claimed that Morse, a political science adjunct professor and lecturer at UMass Amherst, matched with students who were members of collegiate Democratic and progressive groups on dating apps, added them as “friends” on social media and sent them direct messages, and engaged in sexual relationships with students — none of whom were in Morse’s classes or in a subordinate position to Morse — that, while consensual, created a.