Investigations Into Engineering Professor Found to Warrant Discipline
Updated: Dec. 6, 2019 10:55 a.m. Content warning: This article contains references to sexual and racial harassment. *A pseudonym is used to protect the source’s identity Four hundred and sixty one days ago, Alex Muhammad* filed a formal complaint against UC Santa Cruz computer science…
Engineering Professor Under Investigation for Harassment
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains language related to sexual harassment, racial harassment and verbal abuse. *A pseudonym is used to protect the source’s identity. “I don’t think I can take this Dimitris,” Alex Muhammad* told his spouse in October 2017. “He’s awful to me. Even in…
Title IX Guidance Favors the Accused
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinded the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter and 2014 Question and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence, threatening thousands of sexual assault survivors with longer, more difficult paths to justice. Even before DeVos’ changes, announced on Sept 22, Title IX…
Cabrillo College and Instructor Sued for Title IX violations
Trigger warning: This story contains references to sexual violence. A former Cabrillo College student and mathematics teaching aid is suing both Cabrillo College, for depriving her of her rights and violating Title IX, and Cabrillo mathematics instructor Alex Taurke for sexual assault and sexual battery….
Settlement Reveals Systemic Issues
I. A Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) student claimed she was sexually assaulted by both professor Héctor Perla and a fifth-year undergraduate student-employee in June 2015. She said she went to the hospital and filed a police report the following day — the day…
Consent isn’t Sexy — it’s Mandatory
Editor’s note: The Chancellor’s Office is a client of City on a Hill Press (CHP), and its current advertisements through CHP in the loop buses promote the campus-wide “Consent is Sexy” campaign. The business and editorial teams at CHP do not influence each other. The…
UCSC Added to Nationwide Title IX Investigation
The Title IX office has received 100 reports since July 1 — 48 of which were sexual harassment and 29 were sexual assault. In March, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified UC Santa Cruz that it would be under investigation…
Anita Hill Speaks of Equality and ‘The Change That We Need’
A roaring round of applause welcomed to the podium the attorney and professor who put the issue of sexual harassment on the national agenda. Students, staff and community members lined up hours before Anita Hill’s lecture — “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality”…
Facilitating a Changing Conversation
There were 12 reports of forcible sex offenses, nine reports of domestic violence and three reports of dating violence and an additional three reports of stalking at UC Santa Cruz, according to the Clery Act Report from last year. In the past year, President Barack…