How Academia Still Struggles With Sexual Harassment (buzzfeed.com)

New submitter Dr. Scatterplot writes: Richard Feynman is celebrated as a brilliant scientist and idiosyncratic character. He is also someone who today might be accused of sexual harassment. That is, if his students felt empowered to report him. Whether his department would have done anything back then is a different matter. How far should academic communities go to protect their intellectual capital, at the expense of further harm to their students, past and present? UC Berkeley and exoplanet astronomers are walking that line with prominent professor and exoplanet discoverer Geoff Marcy. "Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping. As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given 'clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,' which he must follow or risk 'sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.''

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I sure am glad

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm glad I live in a nice tropical paradise where the women aren't so damn uppity and know how to enjoy their lives. You fuckin' people all need to lock yourselves up in solitary confinement... Ooo, he touched me! Ewww!.. Fuck off!

Re:Academia is willing to protect total dicks

[R3d M3rcury]

Perhaps this video will help.