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A UC Berkeley alumna created a petition April 11 that calls for the campus to fire John Searle, tenured UC Berkeley professor emeritus of philosophy, in response to recent sexual assault allegations made by Joanna Ong, Searle’s former research assistant, against him.
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Joanna Ong and Alyssa Leader both hold degrees from premier American universities — UC Berkeley and Harvard University, respectively. They are also both suing their alma maters for mishandling cases of sexual misconduct.
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After Sofie Karasek filed a sexual assault complaint with the UC Berkeley Title IX office in 2012, she didn’t hear back for eight months.
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The University of California settled with a former UC Santa Cruz student over her allegations that she was raped by an assistant professor for $1.15 million.
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