sexual harassment
Former S.A. Representative Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Imprisonment
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After months of hearings, Cornell student Osai Egharevba ’21 pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/sexual-harassment/)
After months of hearings, Cornell student Osai Egharevba ’21 pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment.
After receiving multiple complaints, Cornell University Police arrested a student for third degree sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment and two counts of harassment on Nov. 17. The charges stemmed from four specific instances that spanned from January to November.
In 2017, a campus climate survey detailed that 55 percent of Cornell students had experienced sexual harassment. Sexual Assault Awareness Week, starting on April 29, aims to change these statistics.
Google agreed to pay $15 million to Amitabh Singhal Ph.D. ’96, a former senior vice president in charge of its search engine, as part of an agreement reached when Singhal resigned from the company in 2016 following accusations of sexual harassment against him, a lawsuit unsealed in early March revealed, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Every survivor of sexual violence must be taken seriously, and every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined,” wrote Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, in a press release last month. The Federal Department of Education released a new set of proposed regulations that will shape sexual harassment policy.
Dear Mr. Kavanaugh,
Watching your confirmation process has caused me great distress. As the daughter of one father, it makes me sick to see a good, upstanding family man torn apart by baseless allegations. In hopes that it will help you navigate this crisis, I’ve formulated the following strategy for you and your team. First: deny, deny, deny. You’re doing a great job already, but you can’t let the pressure get to you.
This case is indicative of a culture of harassment within academia, according to Becca Harrison grad, that hinges on the power dynamics between graduate students and professors.
To the Editor:
I have recently had meaningful discussions with several graduate students from Cornell, who have encouraged me to explain to others what I have said to them about the signing of the letter concerning Avital Ronell. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to speak and to listen and to allow me to do the same. I explained to them that, although I have offered to the Cornell students to speak to them either individually or, by anonymous request, as a group, I have previously been reluctant to issue a formal statement or be interviewed for a paper. This is because of the likelihood of distortion in these contexts and because of the tendency for explanations to appear to be excuses, or to appear as attempts to purify oneself by condemning others. Nonetheless, as the students have indicated to me, they found it helpful to hear some of the context for my signing (and that of others), so I am reiterating my comments here.
With increasing workforce diversity, along with social media activism and legal action, the panelists hope and believe that future employees will witness change.
Cornell University will refuse a recent gift from Richard Meier ’56, which would have endowed the chair of the architecture department, after five women accused him of sexual harassment.