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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Campus Title IX investigations continue to be opaque, discouraging

CAMPUS ISSUES: UC Berkeley must provide students with clear timelines, better-structured resources

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Emily Bi/Senior Staff

With the lengthy and tumultuous Searle case finally coming to a close, there is an example of what the timeline for SVSH cases looks like and what disciplinary action comes out of them. But this case makes it strikingly apparent that OPHD processes are flawed
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Campus

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Former UC Berkeley student accuses Cal football coaches, players of sexual harassment

A former UC Berkeley student who worked in the sports medicine division of Cal Athletics accused several Cal football coaches and players of sexual harassment in a public Facebook post Wednesday morning.
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#MeToo 2018, Op-Eds

Monday, February 19, 2018

UC Berkeley resources are working to improve their handling of sexual misconduct cases

Our goal should be to continue working to change the culture so that sexual harassment and sexual violence are broadly unacceptable and don’t occur.
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#MeToo 2018, Op-Eds

Monday, February 19, 2018

PATH to Care provides powerful resource for survivors

At that point, I was already emotionally and physically exhausted from months of OPHD-enforced isolation and multiple hours of testimonies. The worst part for me was that OPHD forbade me to talk with anyone.
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Campus

Friday, June 2, 2017

Dirks appoints Sharon Inkelas special advisor on sexual violence, harassment

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced the appointment of campus linguistics professor Sharon Inkelas to serve as the Special Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor on Sexual Violence/Sexual Harassment in an email sent to campus Friday evening.
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Crime & Courts

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Student alleges he was improperly disciplined in campus Title IX investigation

John Doe, an unidentified, suspended campus student, alleged he was improperly disciplined in a campus Title IX sexual misconduct investigation, according to a petition filed Tuesday in the Alameda County Superior Court Rene C. Davidson courthouse.
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Campus

Monday, April 17, 2017

Campus alumna starts petition to fire UC Berkeley professor accused of sexual harassment

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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Campus

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Search begins for permanent lead on UC Berkeley sexual misconduct cases

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced in a campuswide email Tuesday that the campus has begun searching for a permanent campus lead on sexual violence and sexual harassment.
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Campus

Monday, April 25, 2016

Former Berkeley Law dean files grievance over disciplinary process amid sex harassment allegations

Former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry filed a grievance letter with a campus faculty committee Friday, alleging that administrators violated campus policies by launching a second disciplinary process against him in the aftermath of recent sexual harassment allegations against him.
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Campus

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Yann Hufnagel submits letter of resignation, drops appeal of sex harassment findings

After former Cal assistant men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel submitted more than 900 text messages to UC officials Monday to contest the finding that he had violated UC sexual harassment policies, he submitted a letter of resignation Thursday afternoon, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof.
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