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    ElephantShoe2Stassa Edwards
    4/07/16 1:57pm

    Oh, good, it formed a committee. Nonaction so breathtakingly academic that I am almost as comforted as I would be if they just fired tenured professors who sexually harass people.

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      FarubaElephantShoe2
      4/07/16 2:19pm

      I feel like I’ve seen more than I’d like of the “my boss/someone in power is sexually harassing me” plot in TV and movies lately and I’m just screaming at the TV “take legal action! Talk to HR! Don’t let him get away with this!” And none of those things are ever the plot.

      Nor are they ever real life, I guess, despite the promises of action I got in my employer’s lengthy and thorough HR training.

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      ElephantShoe2Faruba
      4/07/16 2:31pm

      Right! Because, unfortunately, those plots resonate with people, but the drawn out and mundane legal action required to deal with those plots doesn’t make for sexy T.V.

      While I appreciate that HR training I’ve received, what I really need most of all is just a list, pasted everywhere, easily accessible, not on some dumb print out (I did hang the dumb print out on the wall, but still) of the correct numbers to call immediately when faced with a sexual harassment crisis. In a university setting, it’s difficult to remember the first line of action for the various subgroups who could be involved: employees, department staff, undergrads, grads, post-docs, faculty, etc.—almost every group has a different point of contact for these issues. It’s very frustrating.

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    Andrew DaisukeStassa Edwards
    4/07/16 1:49pm

    Why is not being an asshole so baffling for some people? Is it really that hard?

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      SqarrAndrew Daisuke
      4/07/16 1:54pm

      Apparently.

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      quesoquesoquesoAndrew Daisuke
      4/07/16 1:59pm

      ;-)

      Ugh

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    Hoyo AfrikaStassa Edwards
    4/07/16 1:50pm

    Jeff Topacio, the dining manager, who, according to documents, made graphic comments about his “large penis” to subordinates:

    Lissen Tapioca, your piece probably isn't all that big. Men who brag about their size are usually lacking. Stop bragging. Use what the good Lord gave you and just shut up. Can you imagine if women started bragging about tight or loose their V's were? Some men are the worst.

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      JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereHoyo Afrika
      4/07/16 2:02pm

      Also, what kind of perverted imbecile likens their penis to a knife? That’s psychopath territory.

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      CrogJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      4/07/16 2:13pm

      Exactly! When would a knife comparison have a good reaction? “oh yes I’ve always fantasised about being stabbed repeatedly in my vagina, my body is ready, let’s do this”

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    SqarrStassa Edwards
    4/07/16 1:56pm

    Also, while we’re on the subject of schools being lazy horror movies:

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      32_FootstepsStassa Edwards
      4/07/16 5:24pm

      What can you do? He’s got tenure. (Strangely, no clip version is online.)

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        ambitiousStassa Edwards
        4/07/16 1:58pm

        A few years back a doctor in the UC Berkeley health clinic sexually assaulted a student more than once and the university dragged its feet dealing with that (and did its best to keep it under wraps). And I’ve seen and overhead some REALLY iffy things in departments not my own.

        Berkeley is such a company town and the university so diehard about protecting its rep (to the point of administrators subtly threatening complainants when it comes to even the littlest things) that it can be hard to get anyone to believe anything other than rigorous research and warm hugs are happening on campus.

        Here’s hoping that more sunlight will change that.

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          NomadicChicambitious
          4/07/16 2:53pm

          True. And part of the rep is that UCB is a progressive and inclusive institution. I think as a result: 1) staff are treated almost like they have a “calling” to work in public higher ed and should put up and shut up for the higher good and 2) these cases run so counter to institutional identity that the impulse to hide them is even stronger than on your average campus. Finally, you can pry Berkeley’s academically elite yet public mantle from its cold, dead hands—that coupled with insanely byzantine internal regulations are bound to prirotize protecting faculty careers over student or staff safety.

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          ambitiousNomadicChic
          4/07/16 3:08pm

          100%

          See also: Incidents of racist chicanery in and out of the classroom. HERE? BUT HOW? Must be a misunderstanding ...

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        CmdrBnaStassa Edwards
        4/07/16 3:58pm

        Oh look, dudes ruining higher education for everyone else again

        Way to go, dudes

        What will you ruin next

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          kittiesandtittiesohmyCmdrBna
          4/07/16 4:42pm


          Everything.

          They will continue to ruin. Everything.

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        cinnamonStassa Edwards
        4/07/16 1:51pm

        19 employees, including six faculty members, have violated the university’s sexual harassment conduct code since 2011.

        What the fuck?

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          PunditGuycinnamon
          4/07/16 2:04pm

          Organizations like this are larger than some cities. Crime is basically inevitable.

          How the administration reacts to that crime, however, is totally evitable.

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