Politically Correct Zoology

flynny51 writes "Dr. Dylan Evans of the School of Medicine, University College, Cork, Ireland, has had a two-year period of intensive monitoring and counseling imposed upon him and as a result his application for tenure is likely to be denied. His offense — sharing an article from a peer-reviewed journal on fellatio in fruit bats."

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Details

[HungryHobo]

For copies of the letters sent back and forth along with far more details:

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/c1.jpg
http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/c2.jpg

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/reply.pdf

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/report1.jpg
http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/report2.jpg

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/reply_report.pdf

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/reply_reply1.jpg
http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/reply_reply2.jpg

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/letter_2_pres.pdf

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/ifut.pdf

best guess but going mostly from rumor and reading between the lines: the woman who lodged the complaint is quite likely the wife of one of the VP's in UCC.

Re:Details

[lucm]

> Silly. If a person lies in such amounts about something like this, the "case" should just be dropped.

It really depends on *who* that person is (or who she is married to).

From the paragraph 15 in the IFUT letter:

"On the one hand she seems to be complaining that Dr Evans was manipulating her to establish himself in a good light with her husband. Yet on the other hand she accuses Dr Evans of sexual harassment. Such a combination is surely unlikely to say the least. The complainant's repeated references to her husband's position in the University is discomforting. It suggests that she may feel that such reminders might get her a more favourable outcome than might otherwise be the case."

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/

This whole thing is just politics.

Re:It is university....

[HungryHobo]

It wasn't a student.
It was another member of staff.

Re:It is university....

[linzeal]

This is not everything that he has been accusing of.

" According to her statement, these include over-enthusiastic hugging and cheek-kissing, unwanted compliments about her physical appearance, lying to her about his qualifications, and spreading rumours about the special nature of his relationship with her and her husband. "

Re:He's a Jerk

[HungryHobo]

He contends that the paper wasn't a joke at all but that others classed it as such.

Misleading article

[SnapperHead]

Read the actual complaints and you will see that this guy was being very creepy. This is more then just showing the article to a co-worker.

Re:Misleading article

[HungryHobo]

keep reading: he was cleared on everything except the article.

Re:Misleading article

[HungryHobo]

He provided evidence such as emails which didn't match with her account so they went with his account.

Read the material.
There's links to the various letters back and forth in TFA.

Re:It is university....

[HungryHobo]

If you read on he was cleared on everything except showing her the article.

Re:Ireland: In the dark ages

[HungryHobo]

this is about office politics, not government.

Re:It is university....

[SoVeryTired]

According to this, she laughed and asked him for a copy when he showed it to her. Sounds like there's some sort of personal vendetta going on here.

http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/ifut.pdf

Re:Fuck Puritans.

[The_Wilschon]

If you actually bothered to RTFA, or even just TFFirstPost, you'd realize that this has nothing to do with any puritanical impulse to censor. The matter at hand is an accusation of sexual harassment, one element of which is the article mentioned in the summary. In fact, the article is the only alleged action which appears to have actually taken place. If you want to get your panties all in a wad about something here, make it be that people are far too quick to punish on allegations of sexual harassment, without stopping to check whether or not any harassment actually occurred first. But no, you jump to the conclusion that this is somehow to do with sexual repression and religion and overbearing moralists. Stop, think, then post (maybe).