In a vote earlier this week, the University of Rochester’s Faculty Senate formally censured Florian Jaeger, the professor at the center of the university’s sexual harassment scandal. Jaeger is accused of alleged inappropriate sexual behavior in his interactions with former students and colleagues from 2007 to 2013. The allegations led to a lawsuit in federal […]
sexual harassment
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The F Word: Good art, bad artists
The F Word. An online column for me to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. There’s a menagerie of despicable people roaming the Earth today. Sexual predators are […]
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Feedback 12/20
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Trafficking legislation signals new approach to Women’s Equality Agenda
For the past two years, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 10-point Women’s Equality Agenda has existed in a sort of suspended animation. Senate Republicans would only pass nine of the 10 points, since the last one would have put the abortion rights guaranteed in Roe v. Wade into state law. And Assembly Democrats insisted on passing all […]
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Vito Lopez, Shelly Silver, and the harassment of women
I feel like I’m reading the same story over and over, just with different perps, different victims, and different kinds of abuse: Jerry Sandusky, Catholic priests, and now Vito Lopez, the New York Assembly member accused of sexually harassing women staff members. And once again, the reaction from higher-ups is to protect the accused. Aren’t […]
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Sexual harassment
The XX Files My first creep I grew up knowing this: it’s my body and no one has the right to say or do anything that makes me feel uncomfortable. My mother tried to build a protective wall around me by hammering in this message repeatedly. By the time I was 14 and started waitressing, […]
