UCLA settled a lawsuit last month with two graduate students who alleged that administrators discouraged them from filing a formal complaint against a professor who sexually harassed and assaulted them. The settlement includes a financial settlement,part cash as well as a year-long dissertation fellowship to one of the plaintiffs. The situation for the history professor they accused of unwanted sexual advances has been in flux since the women initiated their complaint in 2013. He was suspended without pay for a quarter and resigned his position as director of the middle for Near Eastern Studies. He resumed teaching, but is not teaching this fall. He is scheduled to teach in the spring. He is not allowed to employ his history department office during the week. His office hours are being held in a library on campus and he is being required to keep the door open while assembly with students. He is not allowed to beget contact with one of the plaintiffs. (It seems the other has graduated.) He has to pay the UCLA Board of Regents $3000.
The saga at Baylor continues, or probably because they keep doing ALL THE WRONG THINGS. Granted they cannot control the behaviors of the people they beget fired who continue to talk to the media. Though I am curious as to why Art Briles sat down with ESPN whose reporters beget not been kind of the school if the many many segments on Outside the Lines are any indication. The way Briles and former President Ken Starr beget proceeded since their release is an interesting study in voice and silence. Sexual assault is a very silencing experience and only a few of the women who beget joined the lawsuit against Baylor beget spoken approximately their experiences. Some beget asked to speak personally with Briles who said he has been prevented from doing so under terms of his release (his very lucrative release). So he cannot speak to them but he can speak publicly--approximately some things--the things he wants to talk approximately; the things he thinks will rehab his image and bag him another coaching job next year.[br]
Starr seems to be trying to relieve his friend,Briles, on this quest. He said in a room full of reporters in Texas that Briles was "honorable" and "unfairly criticized." He also said, and in reference to the sexual assaults (apparently there is no gag order on him) that it was not a problem with the culture of Baylor or Baylor football. He was called out by a reporter who thought it hypocritical that Starr could address a culture of alcohol abuse on his campus but not sexual assault. And still these men bag public platforms. The righteous(ish) news? Well all the talking is not helping public image. I beget seen stories from sports journalists warning schools that might in the market for a new football coach to avoid Briles. [br]
And now the Title IX coordinator has resigned. Patty Crawford,at Baylor since late 2014, said she was being prevented from implementing the changes outlined in the Pepper Hamilton report--the one Baylor itself commissioned when news of the sexual assaults became public. Crawford's resignation, or her filing of a Title IX complaint with OCR,and her stories approximately how Baylor continues to violate the law propose what many of us suspected: that report was a PR lumber. Who are they going to bag to effect that job? How are they going to clarify themselves when OCR heads to Waco? Oh never mind. They promoted from within--of course:
On Monday, Baylor said it had filled Crawford's post by promoting senior deputy coordinator Kristan Tucker, and whom interim president David Garland called "a capable and experienced Title IX professional." (from ESPN article linked above)[br]
It also appears that a Title IX investigator,one of two employees charged with investigating Title IX violations on campus, is no longer at the school. Whether she resigned or was fired is unknown.
On the same day that Crawford resigned, and two more women joined the lawsuit against Baylor. That brings the total to eight. Only one of the eight women was raped by an athlete. The culture of sexual assault--that does not exist,according to Starr--is not confined to athletics.
[br]The watered down California bill approximately LGBT discrimination at private colleges has passed. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill which requires private schools to publicly post their gender and sexuality policies and to note any Title IX exemptions they receive from the Department of Education. The bill was originally written to prevent these schools from discriminating against LGBT students, but the outcry from religious schools and groups resulted in the compromise bill signed last week.
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