Professor accused of harassment
Graduate school hopes to reach internal resolution to charges leveled against NELC professor
A faculty member in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8.
The accusation will likely be handled internally by Yale Graduate School administrators, YPD spokesman Sgt. Steven Woznyk told the News on Tuesday. The YPD and the Graduate School have agreed to try to resolve the harassment complaint without formal police action, Woznyk said. Despite the confirmation of the report, administrators within the department and Graduate School remain tight-lipped, and the accused...
Why would a Prof. ask someone to buy him some smokes??
Why would someone go "fetch" some smokes for a Prof.?
This is very strange, and key details in this strange tale are missing....
some smells funny in Denmark....
An enticing tease of a story, which will and probably should be handled internally and privately. I'm curious, though. What kind of prof yells at a subordinate (lector?) about who buys the cigarettes? What kind of person goes to the police instead of the department chair over being inappropriately yelled at or being stiffed for a pack of cigarettes? The lead line suggests a sexual harassment but the report suggests garden variety (though odd) verbal abuse.
Perhaps this is another example of Sayre’s Law: “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue—that is why academic politics are so bitter.”
#1 & #2,
The ability to infer is the hallmark of a Yale education. Obviously the YDN can't publish the details prematurely.
Ah, faculty behaving badly. Nothing new there. With no consequences to modify their behavior, little opportunity or incentive to learn appropriate work place behavior and apparently insufficient manners to constrain their conduct, faculty frequently abuse the (petty)power that comes with their position. They act as if the rules don't apply to them and no one tells them otherwise. The staff put up with a lot of abuse from the faculty at this university, make no mistake. Every administrator has stories of being shouted at, of extreme rudeness, of total disregard for the rules, of demands for personal errands and breathtaking arrogance. The administrative structure which puts people with very poor management skills and no training or experience in charge of managing or supervising staff simply because of an expertise in an academic field is nonsensical, ineffective and costly. All this transfers to the next generation of professors when they are graduate students and the cycle continues. It is a dirty little secret that is so normal it doesn't raise an eyebrow.
I wasn't criticizing YDN and I don't think #1 was either. I was even suggesting that the rest of the story might not be something either side would want to publish or that the Yale Community needs to know (except if and when it is resolved), despite my curiosity.
...ummm and this is sexual harassment, how?