UC Berkeley investigates 26 more cases of sexual misconduct amid scandal

UC Berkeley investigates 26 more cases of sexual misconduct amid scandal, The University of California, Berkeley, is investigating 26 cases of animal aggravation and animal abandon afterwards a anniversary in which three arresting adroitness and agents associates either accommodated or were accursed over animal aggravation charges.

The bulk of cases at the celebrated university has prompted ascent complaints from adroitness who are criticizing administrators for declining to yield abrupt and allusive antidotal action.

“Essentially, there’s been an attack to awning [harassment] up,” said Michael Burawoy, a abettor of folklore and co-chair of the Berkeley Adroitness Association. “These cover-ups are an attack to accumulate the university authentic and adorable to parents who forward their accouchement actuality and donors who forward their money.”

“Sexual aggravation is a botheration in every abode in the United States,” said Leslie Salzinger, a abettor of gender and women’s studies at Berkeley. “But I acquisition the responses actually abashing and shocking. The administering seems to accept added benevolence and added affair for the approaching of the harasser than for that of the survivor.”

Berkeley’s agent Janet Gilmore said chief campus leaders met with experts on animal aggravation to altercate strategies for ameliorate on Monday. Gilmore aswell provided the amount for advancing investigations at the university, 17 of which absorb animal aggravation and nine of which absorb animal violence.

“The university is actually committed to accomplishing all that we can to activity animal aggravation and animal abandon on this campus. Regarding student-on-student cases, we accept fabricated a amount of cogent improvements ... and we apperceive there is added to do,” Gilmore said. “On the adroitness and agents front, we apperceive that we accept to do bigger and we will do better.”

On Monday, the academy began abortion affairs adjoin an abettor drillmaster with the men’s basketball aggregation who was begin to accept abandoned the school’s animal aggravation policy. Yann Hufnagel, the coach, absolved the accuse on Twitter, writing: “My time to absolve myself of a abortive affirmation by a anchorman will come.”

But according to the university’s report, arise Tuesday, Hufnagel accepted to the school’s investigator that he fabricated a “sexual advance” to a changeable reporter, whose name was withheld, assertive that there was “1000% accepting on her part,” and afterwards approved to “trick her into traveling upstairs” to his apartment.

The address concludes that Hufnagel’s “conduct was considerately intimidating, hostile, or abhorrent – again propositioning Complainant for sex and, in some cases, suggesting that her accord in sex with [Hufnagel] would admission her greater admission to locations of the sports apple in [his] control”.

Hufnagel’s battlefront followed the abandonment on 10 March of Sujit Choudhry, the administrator of UC Berkeley’s law school, over accuse that he sexually addled his controlling assistant, Tyann Sorrell.

Initially, the administering bargain Choudhry’s bacon by 10% for one year as punishment. Sorrell acquainted that was bare and filed a civilian clothing adjoin the university on 8 March.

After the allegations adjoin Choudhry were fabricated public, UC admiral Janet Napolitano beatific belletrist to UC Berkeley adjudicator Nicholas Dirks and all UC chancellors calling for actual activity on animal abandon and harassment, including the enactment of a “peer review” board to accept proposed sanctions adjoin adroitness begin to accept affianced in animal aggravation or violence.

Napolitano aswell ordered that Choudhry not be accustomed to acknowledgment to campus, and that above vice-chancellor Graham Fleming be accursed from his position at Berkeley. Fleming accommodated his position as vice-chancellor for analysis in April 2015 due to animal aggravation allegations, but he had remained on the amount in an authoritative cycle until Friday.

A agent for Fleming told the San Francisco Chronicle that his battlefront was a “deeply adverse archetype of the university backbreaking an innocent and committed baton alone to arise to be politically correct”.

Several adroitness compared the contempo incidents to the university’s administering of aggravation claims fabricated adjoin Geoffrey Marcy, a arresting astronomer who was begin by the academy to accept again sexually addled acceptance over the advance of a decade. Marcy did not accept cogent conduct for his behavior, but he accommodated in October 2015 afterwards the delinquency was appear by BuzzFeed.

Members of the Berkeley Adroitness Association accept submitted a address to appeal a “special meeting” of the Academic Senate to “have an accessible altercation of the university’s administering of animal harassment, both authoritative failures and procedural obstacles.” The Academic Senate represents adroitness associates in the aggregate babyminding of the university. The affair will acceptable be captivated in backward March.

Celeste Langan, a abettor of English and co-chair of the BFA, bidding affair that the university was afflicted “less by ethical than by reputational motives”, and added that the academy needs bigger protocols for allowance acceptance and agents address aggravation and discrimination.

In 2014, acceptance at Berkeley filed federal complaints adjoin the academy for declining to abundantly investigate complaints of animal assault.

One actual activity that Napolitano alleged for in her letter on Friday was for chief leaders in the university to complete animal advance and animal aggravation training. The academy did not anon acknowledge to a appeal for advice on how abounding agents accept not completed such training.

Those trainings are “pathetic”, Salzinger said. “They amusement animal aggravation as a accident botheration that they accept to insulate themselves from, legally.”

One abettor of political science, Wendy Brown, appropriate that the university administering ability charge some added training of its own about equality.

“This is not a assurance issue; it is an adequation issue,” Brown wrote in an email to a adroitness list-serv that she provided to the Guardian.

“By law, animal aggravation violates the rights of students, agents and adroitness to an apprenticeship or abode area they are advised as equals.

“That this ... is not accepted by the administering makes me agnostic of its accommodation to adjust its administering of this issue. Perhaps a actual altered affectionate of campus apprenticeship about animal aggravation is in order.”
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