4.11.2016: Graduate students Kathleen Gutierrez and Erin Bennett filed discrimination complaints with California’s department of fair employment and housing against the university and assistant professor Blake Wentworth, marking a significant development in a controversy that has roiled the renowned public university for months. Read more!
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Arizona State honors students stand up against predatory professors who are using their students for sex
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Former Vanderbilt graduate student files $20 million dollar lawsuit against university due to a professor sexually harassing her
"Consider this excerpt from the lawsuit: At a conference the professor '... required the female graduate students to attend a boat party where the male professors became intoxicated and were allowed to make romantic and sexual advances on the students.' Then there's this: The professor 'would routinely call her ugly, fat and ... a stupid in front of other students.'
The suit alleges he knew the graduate student was a recovering alcoholic and told her he wished she 'would start drinking again because she would be more fun,' and that '... she would be less stressed out if she had more sex.'"
"Consider this excerpt from the lawsuit: At a conference the professor '... required the female graduate students to attend a boat party where the male professors became intoxicated and were allowed to make romantic and sexual advances on the students.' Then there's this: The professor 'would routinely call her ugly, fat and ... a stupid in front of other students.'
The suit alleges he knew the graduate student was a recovering alcoholic and told her he wished she 'would start drinking again because she would be more fun,' and that '... she would be less stressed out if she had more sex.'"
ASU Alumnae travels to DC to testify about her experience of being harassed and assaulted by her professor
"When a teacher has that kind of power over their student, it’s hard to say no, and that compromises consent,” Lester said. “I was way too scared to ever question my professor, because I had a pass/fail for those credits, and I was afraid of retaliation.”
"When a teacher has that kind of power over their student, it’s hard to say no, and that compromises consent,” Lester said. “I was way too scared to ever question my professor, because I had a pass/fail for those credits, and I was afraid of retaliation.”