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"content": "\u003cp>When you think about a college town, chances are good the abundance of alcohol springs to mind. But Palo Alto owes its entire existence to the want of a college town \u003cem>without\u003c/em> booze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also why Palo Alto has two downtown-like districts: the “official” downtown along University Avenue that leads into Stanford University, and California Avenue a few miles to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palo Alto has two separate downtowns because it was originally two separate towns,” said Steve Staiger, the historian for the Palo Alto Historical Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mayfield, California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before there was Palo Alto, there was Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in the 1850s, it was one of several small communities interspersed among the rural farmland of the 19th century Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 597px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11735747 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The corner of Main and Lincoln in Mayfield (present-day El Camino Real and California Avenue) in 1908. This is the intersection where Leland Stanford met the leaders of Mayfield in 1886 to see if they would close their saloons.\" width=\"597\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut.jpg 597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut-160x88.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corner of Main and Lincoln in Mayfield (present-day El Camino Real and California Avenue) in 1908. This is the intersection where Leland Stanford met the leaders of Mayfield in 1886 to see if they would close their saloons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was a small downtown of general stores, blacksmiths, saloons and lumberyards that served the farming community that surrounded it,” said Laura Jones, Stanford archaeologist and president of the Stanford Historical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That small downtown was present-day California Avenue, or Lincoln Street as it was then known. And in 1886, when Leland and Jane Stanford were looking for a college town to support the new university they were building nearby, they turned to Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was just one condition: Mayfield would have to go dry, ending the sale of liquor within the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6.jpeg\" alt=\"Mayfield's Main Street in 1902.\" width=\"596\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11735897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6.jpeg 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6-160x97.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayfield’s Main Street in 1902. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was during the heart of the Temperance Movement, and the Stanfords knew that associating their school with an alcohol-free town would be enticing to many of the parents of prospective students. (The Stanfords themselves had no issues with alcohol production. They owned the\u003ca href=\"https://www.newclairvauxvineyard.com/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> world’s largest winery\u003c/a> just north of Chico, and they even operated a winery on Stanford’s campus for a time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going dry was going to be a hard sell in Mayfield, though, because much of the community’s economy was built on the back of its 13 saloons and two breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a place where the population of predominantly single men would come off the farms or the ranches or the sawmills on Friday, come to town and spend their week’s wages drinking,” Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Mayfield’s leaders decided that booze was more profitable than books and rejected the Stanfords’ offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the couple quickly turned to Plan B. If Mayfield wouldn’t become their dry college town, they would create their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Birth of Palo Alto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896-800x390.jpeg\" alt=\"Palo Alto in 1896.\" width=\"800\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896-160x78.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto in 1896. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Stanfords asked Timothy Hopkins, one of Leland Stanford’s friends and colleagues in the railroad industry, to buy 700 acres of farmland a few miles north of Mayfield and start selling lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bought one of the lots from Timothy Hopkins, you were not allowed to sell liquor on it,” Jones said. “And if you did the property reverted to Timothy Hopkins. And so they established a dry town, which is now what we think of as Palo Alto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Due to a combination of local bans, nationwide Prohibition and a state law restricting the sale of liquor near college campuses, you couldn’t legally buy a drink on University Avenue — Palo Alto’s original downtown — \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltohistory.org/liquor-in-palo-alto.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until 1971\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two towns coexisted for a few decades. Stanford University opened in 1891 with Palo Alto as its dry college town, attracting mostly transplants from the East Coast and Midwest. Mayfield, on the other hand, remained a blue-collar town that offered cheaper housing to Stanford students and, of course, a steady supply of alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735761\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"A Jan. 2, 1905, San Francisco Examiner item commiserating with the drinkers of Stanford that nearby Mayfield could no longer provide their libations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-1020x1376.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-1920x2590.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Jan. 2, 1905, San Francisco Examiner item commiserating with the drinkers of Stanford that nearby Mayfield could no longer provide their libations. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayfield was such a popular destination for Stanford students and faculty that the president of the university reportedly closed the gate on the road leading to Mayfield in hopes of preventing students from making the libatious pilgrimage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the steady stream of customers from Stanford wasn’t enough to keep Mayfield afloat. The farmhands and lumber workers who had kept the saloons filled were increasingly being replaced by young families who were less interested in a community built around alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayfield officially incorporated itself as a town at the beginning of the 20th century, one of the first things the new town’s elected leaders did was follow Palo Alto’s lead and close down its saloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They realized their old economic model was no longer viable,” Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dry Mayfield turned out to be just a poorer, less impressive version of Palo Alto, which was continuing to grow in size and success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1925, the residents of Mayfield voted to merge with Palo Alto, and on July 6 Mayfield officially ceased to exist. Palo Alto already had a Lincoln Street, so they rechristened Mayfield’s downtown as California Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue-800x499.jpeg\" alt=\"University Avenue in Palo Alto after 1906.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue-160x100.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Avenue in Palo Alto after 1906. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Main Street (present-day El Camino Real) in Mayfield in about 1909.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield-160x111.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main Street (present-day El Camino Real) in Mayfield in about 1909. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto government did its best to scrub its new addition of the name Mayfield, renaming everything South Palo Alto. But Staiger said that the people who lived in Mayfield never lost their sense of where they were truly from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a woman on our board who grew up in Mayfield for the first five years of her life, and she had lived in the neighborhood ever since,” Staiger said. “She was not a Palo Altan in her mind. She was a Mayfieldian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"University Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019. You could not legally buy a drink on this street until 1971.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019. You could not legally buy a drink on this street until 1971. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"California Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019, at the intersection with El Camino Real, where Leland Stanford met with Mayfield leaders in 1886.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019, at the intersection with El Camino Real, where Leland Stanford met with Mayfield leaders in 1886. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mayfield, California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before there was Palo Alto, there was Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in the 1850s, it was one of several small communities interspersed among the rural farmland of the 19th century Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 597px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11735747 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The corner of Main and Lincoln in Mayfield (present-day El Camino Real and California Avenue) in 1908. This is the intersection where Leland Stanford met the leaders of Mayfield in 1886 to see if they would close their saloons.\" width=\"597\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut.jpg 597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36243_Mayfield-Bank-and-Post-Office-qut-160x88.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corner of Main and Lincoln in Mayfield (present-day El Camino Real and California Avenue) in 1908. This is the intersection where Leland Stanford met the leaders of Mayfield in 1886 to see if they would close their saloons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was a small downtown of general stores, blacksmiths, saloons and lumberyards that served the farming community that surrounded it,” said Laura Jones, Stanford archaeologist and president of the Stanford Historical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That small downtown was present-day California Avenue, or Lincoln Street as it was then known. And in 1886, when Leland and Jane Stanford were looking for a college town to support the new university they were building nearby, they turned to Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was just one condition: Mayfield would have to go dry, ending the sale of liquor within the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6.jpeg\" alt=\"Mayfield's Main Street in 1902.\" width=\"596\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11735897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6.jpeg 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/getimage-6-160x97.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayfield’s Main Street in 1902. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was during the heart of the Temperance Movement, and the Stanfords knew that associating their school with an alcohol-free town would be enticing to many of the parents of prospective students. (The Stanfords themselves had no issues with alcohol production. They owned the\u003ca href=\"https://www.newclairvauxvineyard.com/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> world’s largest winery\u003c/a> just north of Chico, and they even operated a winery on Stanford’s campus for a time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going dry was going to be a hard sell in Mayfield, though, because much of the community’s economy was built on the back of its 13 saloons and two breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a place where the population of predominantly single men would come off the farms or the ranches or the sawmills on Friday, come to town and spend their week’s wages drinking,” Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Mayfield’s leaders decided that booze was more profitable than books and rejected the Stanfords’ offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the couple quickly turned to Plan B. If Mayfield wouldn’t become their dry college town, they would create their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Birth of Palo Alto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896-800x390.jpeg\" alt=\"Palo Alto in 1896.\" width=\"800\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Early-Palo-Alto-1896-160x78.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto in 1896. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Stanfords asked Timothy Hopkins, one of Leland Stanford’s friends and colleagues in the railroad industry, to buy 700 acres of farmland a few miles north of Mayfield and start selling lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bought one of the lots from Timothy Hopkins, you were not allowed to sell liquor on it,” Jones said. “And if you did the property reverted to Timothy Hopkins. And so they established a dry town, which is now what we think of as Palo Alto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Due to a combination of local bans, nationwide Prohibition and a state law restricting the sale of liquor near college campuses, you couldn’t legally buy a drink on University Avenue — Palo Alto’s original downtown — \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltohistory.org/liquor-in-palo-alto.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until 1971\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two towns coexisted for a few decades. Stanford University opened in 1891 with Palo Alto as its dry college town, attracting mostly transplants from the East Coast and Midwest. Mayfield, on the other hand, remained a blue-collar town that offered cheaper housing to Stanford students and, of course, a steady supply of alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735761\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"A Jan. 2, 1905, San Francisco Examiner item commiserating with the drinkers of Stanford that nearby Mayfield could no longer provide their libations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-1020x1376.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut-1920x2590.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36251_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Mon__Jan_2__1905_-1-qut.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Jan. 2, 1905, San Francisco Examiner item commiserating with the drinkers of Stanford that nearby Mayfield could no longer provide their libations. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayfield was such a popular destination for Stanford students and faculty that the president of the university reportedly closed the gate on the road leading to Mayfield in hopes of preventing students from making the libatious pilgrimage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the steady stream of customers from Stanford wasn’t enough to keep Mayfield afloat. The farmhands and lumber workers who had kept the saloons filled were increasingly being replaced by young families who were less interested in a community built around alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayfield officially incorporated itself as a town at the beginning of the 20th century, one of the first things the new town’s elected leaders did was follow Palo Alto’s lead and close down its saloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They realized their old economic model was no longer viable,” Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dry Mayfield turned out to be just a poorer, less impressive version of Palo Alto, which was continuing to grow in size and success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1925, the residents of Mayfield voted to merge with Palo Alto, and on July 6 Mayfield officially ceased to exist. Palo Alto already had a Lincoln Street, so they rechristened Mayfield’s downtown as California Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue-800x499.jpeg\" alt=\"University Avenue in Palo Alto after 1906.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/University-Avenue-160x100.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Avenue in Palo Alto after 1906. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Main Street (present-day El Camino Real) in Mayfield in about 1909.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Main-Street-Mayfield-160x111.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main Street (present-day El Camino Real) in Mayfield in about 1909. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto government did its best to scrub its new addition of the name Mayfield, renaming everything South Palo Alto. But Staiger said that the people who lived in Mayfield never lost their sense of where they were truly from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a woman on our board who grew up in Mayfield for the first five years of her life, and she had lived in the neighborhood ever since,” Staiger said. “She was not a Palo Altan in her mind. She was a Mayfieldian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"University Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019. You could not legally buy a drink on this street until 1971.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36264_IMG_2985-6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019. You could not legally buy a drink on this street until 1971. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"California Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019, at the intersection with El Camino Real, where Leland Stanford met with Mayfield leaders in 1886.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36260_IMG_2906-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Avenue in Palo Alto on March 27, 2019, at the intersection with El Camino Real, where Leland Stanford met with Mayfield leaders in 1886. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stanford's now-fired sailing coach John Vandemoer was among the 50 people charged in a nationwide college admissions bribery scheme last week. His name is among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13852765/u-s-accuses-actresses-others-of-fraud-in-massive-college-admissions-scandal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 Bay Area residents on that list\u003c/a> who were accused and indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey Rosston, a junior at Stanford, said she found out about the university's role in the scandal when she received an email from the school's independent student publication, The Fountain Hopper, while in the middle of her economics class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford junior Lindsay Rosston is working on a major in economics and a minor in education. She said she learned of the cheating scandal through the school's student newspaper.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35991__M6A0086-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford junior Lindsay Rosston is working on a major in economics and a minor in education. She said she learned of the cheating scandal through the school's student newspaper. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Immediately everyone was looking up what happened. There was a girl actually on the sailing team so it was very dramatic,\" she said, \"and eventually I looked it up and found the names of the people who were involved. I had gone to middle school and elementary school with one of them. So that was interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The College Admissions Scandal\" tag=\"college-admissions-scandal\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s pretty disturbing in a few ways that this is happening at such amazing schools, and that it was covered up for so long,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 2018 graduate Omar Soh, the news came as no surprise. He explained that it \"doesn’t seem particularly unique in the scheme of how people use money to have access to these schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a larger scale, I think it’s fundamentally no different from the way people with the resources can afford various prep services and other things that essentially give people a leg up in admissions anyway,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soh grew up in Senegal and found the journey to receiving his computer science degree at Stanford a challenge. He learned about the university in his senior year in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There weren’t many resources available in terms of test prep or the admissions process, so it was altogether a fairly stressful thing as I’m sure it is for a lot of people that apply. But there was no outline of steps to take. I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Omar Soh said he didn't have much guidance when he applied to Stanford. "I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening," he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733911\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-800x472.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-1020x601.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-1200x708.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Soh said he didn't have much guidance when he applied to Stanford. \"I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening,\" he said. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Soh, another student recalled challenges of getting into Stanford. The PhD graduate, who wished to remain anonymous, is a first generation Syrian-American, and said it was hard navigating through the college system having gone to a \"barebones\" high school without many resources and guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger issue for me growing up was actually going to CAL [UC Berkeley], because it was like no one had really gone to a university in my family. So by the time I got into CAL, it was a matter of how do I survive? 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But I think it’s probably endemic of something bigger which is just massive amounts of inequality,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sophomore student, who also wanted to stay anonymous, made similar speculations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I kind of do question whether or not my peers got in for the right reasons. It’s made me a little bit more aware of the people that are at Stanford, but I don’t think it shaped my view of Stanford’s administration,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I come from a middle-class background and I don’t receive as many resources as a person who’s coming from a low-income background. However, these high-income students are buying their way in. So I guess what I’m seeking is a more productive conversation about inequalities. But long term, I’m quite cynical. 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She found out about the bribing scheme and the student lawsuit from a letter Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne sent out to the school body.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733957\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35916__M6A0119-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35916__M6A0119-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35916__M6A0119-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35916__M6A0119-qut-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35916__M6A0119-qut-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Stanford student, who wished to be anonymous, will be graduating in 2021. She found out about the bribing scheme and the student lawsuit from a letter Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne sent out to the school body. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosston said her younger brother is anxiously awaiting to hear back from college admissions and thinks the pressure to get into top universities and need for a critical discussion about admissions has only mounted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so sad right now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these students now feel like they aren’t up to par with where their parents think they should be going, and they actually have to falsify something to get into the right college. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s pretty disturbing in a few ways that this is happening at such amazing schools, and that it was covered up for so long,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 2018 graduate Omar Soh, the news came as no surprise. He explained that it \"doesn’t seem particularly unique in the scheme of how people use money to have access to these schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a larger scale, I think it’s fundamentally no different from the way people with the resources can afford various prep services and other things that essentially give people a leg up in admissions anyway,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soh grew up in Senegal and found the journey to receiving his computer science degree at Stanford a challenge. He learned about the university in his senior year in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There weren’t many resources available in terms of test prep or the admissions process, so it was altogether a fairly stressful thing as I’m sure it is for a lot of people that apply. But there was no outline of steps to take. I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Omar Soh said he didn't have much guidance when he applied to Stanford. "I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening," he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733911\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-800x472.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-1020x601.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1-1200x708.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35918__M6A0103-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Soh said he didn't have much guidance when he applied to Stanford. \"I was figuring it out on my own or with a small group of people who were also figuring it out and didn’t know what was happening,\" he said. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Soh, another student recalled challenges of getting into Stanford. 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They argued that applicants who played by the rules were victimized when rich and famous parents paid bribes that enabled unqualified students to get into highly selective universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The students who filed the complaint didn’t receive what they paid for — to participate in an application process free of fraud. … these schools represented that their admission process would be based on the applicants’ merits, considering their character and performance,” said Lindsey Carr of the Minneapolis-based Zimmerman Reed LLP. “Instead, the students allege that what they got was a process tainted by bribes and school officials who failed to assure an honest application process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a straightforward claim and a simple remedy,” added Carr, who said they wouldn’t be doing interviews. “The students want their money back. They request that anyone who paid an application fee to any of the eight named universities but was denied admission gets their application fee returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges were announced earlier this week against 50 people, including coaches and dozens of parents, among them TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-13/vancouver-football-player-turned-dealer-ensnared-in-college-scam\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Vancouver tycoon\u003c/a> whose children landed spots at UC Berkeley and Chapman University in Southern California. Prosecutors said parents paid to rig standardized exams and bribed coaches to get their children designated as recruited athletes in sports they didn’t play, thereby boosting their chances of getting in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint was brought initially by Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, now students at Stanford. It was revised Thursday to remove Olsen and add three new plaintiffs, students at Tulane, Rutgers and an unnamed community college in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colleges have cast themselves as victims and have moved to distance themselves from the coaches, firing or suspending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the institutions named in the lawsuit, the University of Texas at Austin, issued a statement saying that it is “outraged” over the scheme and that any wrongdoing at the school does not reflect its admissions practices and was carried out by “one UT employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Class-action complaint filed by students\"]‘Each of the universities took the students’ admission application fees while failing to take adequate steps to ensure that their admissions process was fair and free of fraud, bribery, cheating and dishonesty.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of Southern California officials said earlier this week that prosecutors believe that the alleged perpetrators “went to great lengths to conceal their actions from the university.” Yale, likewise, said it was “the victim of a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other schools named in the lawsuit were the University of California at Los Angeles, Wake Forest University and the University of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students in the lawsuit could have a difficult time tying the schools to the fraud in the absence of further evidence, said Joy Blanchard, a professor at Louisiana State University who focuses on higher education law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t be able to prove that the universities were behind some grand scheme,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Zimmerman, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said he’s skeptical the case will go far in court: “It’s going to be hard for them to substantiate their claims that they wouldn’t have applied at all and thus should be entitled to their admission fees back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts said the plaintiffs at highly selective Stanford would have an especially hard time showing they suffered any harm, since they still got into an elite institution. Messages seeking comment from Olsen and Woods were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other claims, the lawsuit said the universities should have discovered the bribes and that their failure to do so through audits or other practices reflects “an unfair business practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News’ Kate Wolffe and Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A loving daughter and supportive friend. A political junkie. A diehard Californian and Dodgers fan. And a committed scholar, also known for her advocacy work on behalf of sexual assault survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how colleagues and friends described Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor of politics at Scripps College in Claremont, California, who in early February alleged that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second woman has since accused Fairfax of raping her in 2000 at a fraternity party at Duke University. He has denied both allegations and has called for a law enforcement investigation. Three people told KQED that Tyson — who declined to be interviewed for this story — had previously confided in them about the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to lead by example, no matter how hard it is,” said Tyson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/vanessa-tyson\">a race politics scholar\u003c/a>, at a talk on Feb. 12 at Stanford University, when she was asked about speaking up about sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer has asked the Virginia General Assembly, where Fairfax, a Democrat, is the Senate president, to create a bipartisan process to investigate the allegations. On Friday, Virginia House Republicans said they would hold a hearing where Fairfax, Tyson and the other accuser, Meredith Watson, can testify, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/aecb631183754924b9edb8f74a630b94\">The Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. A spokeswoman for Fairfax has described the Republican-led hearing as “partisan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Consensual\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson, who is 42, said she met Fairfax at the convention, where they were both working, on July 26, 2004. They crossed paths during the first few days, and their interaction was “cordial but not flirtatious,” Tyson said in a statement through her lawyer in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual.’\u003ccite>Professor Vanessa C. Tyson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Tyson said Fairfax invited her on an errand to pick up some documents from his hotel room. While there, she said Fairfax kissed her, but what “began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I cried and gagged, Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual,” Tyson said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Tyson said, she avoided Fairfax for the rest of the convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the assault, I suffered from both deep humiliation and shame. I did not speak about it for years, and I (like most survivors) suppressed those memories and emotions as a necessary means to continue my studies, and to pursue my goal of building a successful career as an academic,” she said in her statement. “At the time, I found this horrific incident especially degrading, given my regular volunteer work at a local rape crisis center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said her silence began to end when the #MeToo movement erupted in the fall of 2017, which was also when she learned Fairfax was running to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The passion and resolve of so many survivors, coupled with the job security that tenure afforded me, gave me the strength I simply did not have in 2004,” she said in the statement, noting she began to disclose details about the assault to friends in October 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Burke, a spokeswoman for Fairfax, said the lieutenant governor has “consistently” denied the allegations and has requested a “full, fair, independent, impartial, and nonpolitical investigation” by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘She Was Rattled, Frustrated’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson had reached out to The Washington Post shortly after Fairfax won office in November 2017 to report the alleged attack, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/2019/02/06/daed33aa-2a30-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html?utm_term=.0ca03ab1b402\">the newspaper said\u003c/a>. But The Post said, in a piece it did about her on Feb. 6, 2019, that it “did not run a story at the time because it could not corroborate Tyson’s account or find similar complaints of sexual misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of Tyson’s friends and colleagues told KQED that she’d spoken with them about the alleged attack within the last year. Dara Strolovitch, an \u003ca href=\"https://gss.princeton.edu/dara-z-strolovitch\">associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University\u003c/a>, said Tyson, a longtime friend, shared details about the incident in March 2018 when they were attending a political science conference in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard.’\u003ccite>Professor Jennifer Freyd, who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tyson was in disbelief that the man she said had attacked her had been elected lieutenant governor, said Strolovitch: “She was rattled. She was unhappy. She was frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Yi Dionne, an \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/kyd\">assistant professor of political science at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, said Tyson confided in her on July 11, 2018 — a date she remembers because that’s when she closed on her home. Tyson, a fellow Californian who she has known since 1998, came over that day with some housewarming gifts: wine, toilet paper, cereal and face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worried that his continued success would take a toll on her,” Dionne said about Fairfax’s election. “I worried that there was no good solution for that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionne said she thought Tyson’s “experience with The Post left her really disappointed. And uncertain about whether there was a way forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729487\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax presides over the Senate at the Virginia State Capitol, Feb. 7, 2019, in Richmond, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Freyd, \u003ca href=\"https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/\">a professor of psychology\u003c/a> who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years, said Tyson disclosed details about the encounter with her and a few other colleagues last fall at Stanford, where they are yearlong fellows at the \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu\">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson described the “parameters of the event very clearly about what happened to her in that hotel room in 2004,” said Freyd, who didn’t recall if she’d named Fairfax as her attacker. “Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Jennifer Freyd speaks as part of a talk, “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo,” at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences on Feb. 12, 2019. Professor Vanessa Tyson is sitting to her left. \u003ccite>(Nikki Ritcher/Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, earlier this month, a racist photo surfaced in the 1984 yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/04/691002942/eyes-on-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-to-heal-va-as-northam-resists-calls-to-resign\">leading to calls for his resignation\u003c/a>. Tyson commented on the incident in a post on Facebook on Feb. 1, 2019, saying that a campaign staffer who had assaulted her during the 2004 DNC “was about to get a big promotion.” She did not directly refer to Northam or Fairfax — who is lieutenant governor to Northam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not my intention in that moment to inject myself into what has become a much larger political battle,” Tyson said in her public statement issued by her lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond Free Press features top Virginia state officials embroiled in controversies on Feb. 9, 2019, in Richmond, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Tyson had decided whether she would go public, conservative website Big League Politics \u003ca href=\"https://bigleaguepolitics.com/stanford-fellow-hints-at-possible-justin-fairfax-sex-assault/\">published a screenshot\u003c/a> of her Facebook post, saying she had hinted at a possible sexual assault by the lieutenant governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfax’s staff responded the next day, Feb. 4, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LGJustinFairfax/status/1092331277552898055\">via Twitter\u003c/a>, saying it was a “false claim” and that “he has never assaulted anyone — ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LGJustinFairfax/status/1092331277552898055\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 6, Tyson issued her first public statement on the alleged assault in a three-page letter. She wrote that it was “with tremendous anguish” she was sharing her experience: “Given his false assertions, I’m compelled to make clear what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/1093223842745647104\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Virginia state Republicans called for a hearing into the accusations against him, Fairfax likened what was happening to a political lynching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about hundreds, at least a hundred, terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices — and yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts, and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBrkUWdOl1ZKe79mgK4NTQ\">during a speech\u003c/a> he made to the state Senate on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts …’\u003ccite>Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer, Debra S. Katz, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726050/california-professor-who-accused-virginia-lt-gov-of-assault-to-meet-with-prosecutors\">said in mid-February\u003c/a> that her client will meet with the prosecutor’s office in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, to detail her allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Survivor, Not a Victim\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson grew up in Whittier in Los Angeles County. She had \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SD2iXOSKxg\">long been open\u003c/a> about being a survivor of childhood incest, several friends and colleagues told KQED. When she was 8 years old, she said, her father was convicted of molesting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is so honest and upfront and candid, and she owns her story,” said Nadia Brown, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cla.purdue.edu/polsci/directory/?p=Nadia_Brown\">associate professor of political science and African-American studies\u003c/a> at Purdue University. “She is a survivor. She is not a victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, a \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1020016\">professor of political science and gender studies\u003c/a> at USC and a mentor to Tyson, said Tyson told her about the molestation in 2013 at a conference in Chicago. Hancock Alfaro recalled Tyson sharing a story from years earlier about when her father tried contacting her while she was an undergraduate student at Princeton University: “The fact that he was trying to reach out to her was too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘She owns her story. She is a survivor. She is not a victim.’\u003ccite>Professor Nadia Brown, Purdue University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said she lost legal protection from her father when she turned 18 during her first year at Princeton. Around this time, during late fall of 1994, Tyson said her panic attacks started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I willingly kissed someone for the first time, and this one small act unleashed a tidal wave of emotions, coupled with flashbacks to years of terror from my youth,” she wrote in October 2018 in an essay for the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, publishing in March (Brown, the Purdue professor guest-editing the issue, shared a draft of the essay with KQED).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said she tried to “fix” herself while in college and graduate school, reading books on trauma and childhood sexual abuse and using available counseling resources, she said in the essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she turned to advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 26, she began speaking publicly about child sex abuse, and soon after co-founded the Survivor Speakers’ Bureau of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Tyson said in her essay. She also started a program teaching self-esteem and self-awareness at a girls detention center in Framingham, Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In sharing her story, she hoped to “help fellow survivors in the way that others’ stories had helped me,” she wrote in the essay. “My greatest inspiration, however, remained the deep-seeded belief that my efforts might help to reverse a cycle of abuse and trauma that seemed pervasive in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson has also joined efforts to address sexual harassment in the political science community as part of the #MeTooPoliSci collective, said Brown and Strolovitch. In her latest work, she is shifting her focus from race and representation in Congress to \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/current-fellows#222660\">sexual violence against women and children \u003c/a>— research she has been incubating for years, said her friends and colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson wants to examine political discourse surrounding assault, corresponding policies and the unique identities of survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionne said Tyson’s new project could also trigger her own trauma: “I think that that is really hard and that’s why I think what she’s done has been so brave — because it’s so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Junkie. Dodgers Fan. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political science academic community, and others, have rallied around Tyson, using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IBelieveVanessa&src=tyah\">#IBelieveVanessa\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/legal-defense-fund-for-dr-vanessa-tyson\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account, set up to raise money for legal and security expenses, has raised more than $30,000 since it launched on Feb. 6. Some of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WomensCaucus_PS/status/1093200643165163522\">her supporters\u003c/a> have been circulating a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxyJtQ-992MxfNSkUbSnQMqvahdIyOLk8G4gn-44iQZeCUwA/viewform\">statement of support\u003c/a> for Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11724401 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Tyson, left, with friend and fellow political science professor Melissa R. Michelson, in Vancouver, B.C., in April 2017. Michelson started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help raise money for Tyson’s security and legal expenses in the wake of her coming forward. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa R. Michelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The surge in donations didn’t surprise Melissa R. Michelson, a professor of political science at Menlo College in Atherton who has known Tyson for many years and started the GoFundMe effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows me how well loved and respected Vanessa is,” she said. “I think that’s testament to her reputation as a human being, as a scholar, as someone who is trustworthy, as someone who should be believed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends said they’ve communicated with Tyson since she went public, mostly by text or Facebook messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s hanging in there,” said Purdue professor Brown, who noted that Tyson recently sent her an email to thank her for her support. “But this is hard. And she’s also reliving the past trauma from her father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for the first little while she was clearly completely overwhelmed and trying to, as she put it, remember how to be a human in the midst of all of this,” said Strolovitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Don’t be afraid to see survivors for who they are.’\u003ccite>Professor Vanessa C. Tyson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And that’s one thing friends wanted to stress about Tyson: “She’s also a normal person,” Dionne said. “She has a dog that she loves. She’s a big Dodger fan,” who has attended spring training, and is “super close” with her mom. Brown, like others, described Tyson as a political junkie, who knows a lot about California politics. And friends said she was a connoisseur of fine wine and champagne, sharing special bottles to mark important events, like birthdays and awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dadakim/status/1017280166425387008\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope people will be able to focus on the (her) research,” Dionne said. “And, going forward, I hope that that’s what she’s going to be known for — is that she’s doing really fantastic research and that we should all be reading it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRxyVMzyTG0&t=3306s\">Stanford talk\u003c/a>, Tyson called on people to stand by survivors of sexual assault and not to “glance away” from such violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t be afraid to see survivors for who they are,” she said. “… And know that they didn’t deserve what happened to them. They have nothing to be ashamed of, and they are not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRxyVMzyTG0&t=3306s\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A loving daughter and supportive friend. A political junkie. A diehard Californian and Dodgers fan. And a committed scholar, also known for her advocacy work on behalf of sexual assault survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how colleagues and friends described Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor of politics at Scripps College in Claremont, California, who in early February alleged that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second woman has since accused Fairfax of raping her in 2000 at a fraternity party at Duke University. He has denied both allegations and has called for a law enforcement investigation. Three people told KQED that Tyson — who declined to be interviewed for this story — had previously confided in them about the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to lead by example, no matter how hard it is,” said Tyson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/vanessa-tyson\">a race politics scholar\u003c/a>, at a talk on Feb. 12 at Stanford University, when she was asked about speaking up about sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer has asked the Virginia General Assembly, where Fairfax, a Democrat, is the Senate president, to create a bipartisan process to investigate the allegations. On Friday, Virginia House Republicans said they would hold a hearing where Fairfax, Tyson and the other accuser, Meredith Watson, can testify, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/aecb631183754924b9edb8f74a630b94\">The Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. A spokeswoman for Fairfax has described the Republican-led hearing as “partisan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Consensual\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson, who is 42, said she met Fairfax at the convention, where they were both working, on July 26, 2004. They crossed paths during the first few days, and their interaction was “cordial but not flirtatious,” Tyson said in a statement through her lawyer in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual.’\u003ccite>Professor Vanessa C. Tyson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Tyson said Fairfax invited her on an errand to pick up some documents from his hotel room. While there, she said Fairfax kissed her, but what “began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I cried and gagged, Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual,” Tyson said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Tyson said, she avoided Fairfax for the rest of the convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the assault, I suffered from both deep humiliation and shame. I did not speak about it for years, and I (like most survivors) suppressed those memories and emotions as a necessary means to continue my studies, and to pursue my goal of building a successful career as an academic,” she said in her statement. “At the time, I found this horrific incident especially degrading, given my regular volunteer work at a local rape crisis center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said her silence began to end when the #MeToo movement erupted in the fall of 2017, which was also when she learned Fairfax was running to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The passion and resolve of so many survivors, coupled with the job security that tenure afforded me, gave me the strength I simply did not have in 2004,” she said in the statement, noting she began to disclose details about the assault to friends in October 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Burke, a spokeswoman for Fairfax, said the lieutenant governor has “consistently” denied the allegations and has requested a “full, fair, independent, impartial, and nonpolitical investigation” by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘She Was Rattled, Frustrated’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson had reached out to The Washington Post shortly after Fairfax won office in November 2017 to report the alleged attack, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/2019/02/06/daed33aa-2a30-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html?utm_term=.0ca03ab1b402\">the newspaper said\u003c/a>. But The Post said, in a piece it did about her on Feb. 6, 2019, that it “did not run a story at the time because it could not corroborate Tyson’s account or find similar complaints of sexual misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of Tyson’s friends and colleagues told KQED that she’d spoken with them about the alleged attack within the last year. Dara Strolovitch, an \u003ca href=\"https://gss.princeton.edu/dara-z-strolovitch\">associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University\u003c/a>, said Tyson, a longtime friend, shared details about the incident in March 2018 when they were attending a political science conference in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard.’\u003ccite>Professor Jennifer Freyd, who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tyson was in disbelief that the man she said had attacked her had been elected lieutenant governor, said Strolovitch: “She was rattled. She was unhappy. She was frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Yi Dionne, an \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/kyd\">assistant professor of political science at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, said Tyson confided in her on July 11, 2018 — a date she remembers because that’s when she closed on her home. Tyson, a fellow Californian who she has known since 1998, came over that day with some housewarming gifts: wine, toilet paper, cereal and face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worried that his continued success would take a toll on her,” Dionne said about Fairfax’s election. “I worried that there was no good solution for that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionne said she thought Tyson’s “experience with The Post left her really disappointed. And uncertain about whether there was a way forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729487\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Fairfax_Getty-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax presides over the Senate at the Virginia State Capitol, Feb. 7, 2019, in Richmond, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Freyd, \u003ca href=\"https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/\">a professor of psychology\u003c/a> who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years, said Tyson disclosed details about the encounter with her and a few other colleagues last fall at Stanford, where they are yearlong fellows at the \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu\">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson described the “parameters of the event very clearly about what happened to her in that hotel room in 2004,” said Freyd, who didn’t recall if she’d named Fairfax as her attacker. “Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/CASBS_Freyd-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Jennifer Freyd speaks as part of a talk, “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo,” at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences on Feb. 12, 2019. Professor Vanessa Tyson is sitting to her left. \u003ccite>(Nikki Ritcher/Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, earlier this month, a racist photo surfaced in the 1984 yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/04/691002942/eyes-on-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-to-heal-va-as-northam-resists-calls-to-resign\">leading to calls for his resignation\u003c/a>. Tyson commented on the incident in a post on Facebook on Feb. 1, 2019, saying that a campaign staffer who had assaulted her during the 2004 DNC “was about to get a big promotion.” She did not directly refer to Northam or Fairfax — who is lieutenant governor to Northam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not my intention in that moment to inject myself into what has become a much larger political battle,” Tyson said in her public statement issued by her lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Newspapers_Fairfax_GettyImages-1096540330-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond Free Press features top Virginia state officials embroiled in controversies on Feb. 9, 2019, in Richmond, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Tyson had decided whether she would go public, conservative website Big League Politics \u003ca href=\"https://bigleaguepolitics.com/stanford-fellow-hints-at-possible-justin-fairfax-sex-assault/\">published a screenshot\u003c/a> of her Facebook post, saying she had hinted at a possible sexual assault by the lieutenant governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfax’s staff responded the next day, Feb. 4, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LGJustinFairfax/status/1092331277552898055\">via Twitter\u003c/a>, saying it was a “false claim” and that “he has never assaulted anyone — ever.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After Virginia state Republicans called for a hearing into the accusations against him, Fairfax likened what was happening to a political lynching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about hundreds, at least a hundred, terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices — and yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts, and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBrkUWdOl1ZKe79mgK4NTQ\">during a speech\u003c/a> he made to the state Senate on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts …’\u003ccite>Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer, Debra S. Katz, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726050/california-professor-who-accused-virginia-lt-gov-of-assault-to-meet-with-prosecutors\">said in mid-February\u003c/a> that her client will meet with the prosecutor’s office in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, to detail her allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Survivor, Not a Victim\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson grew up in Whittier in Los Angeles County. She had \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SD2iXOSKxg\">long been open\u003c/a> about being a survivor of childhood incest, several friends and colleagues told KQED. When she was 8 years old, she said, her father was convicted of molesting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is so honest and upfront and candid, and she owns her story,” said Nadia Brown, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cla.purdue.edu/polsci/directory/?p=Nadia_Brown\">associate professor of political science and African-American studies\u003c/a> at Purdue University. “She is a survivor. She is not a victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, a \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1020016\">professor of political science and gender studies\u003c/a> at USC and a mentor to Tyson, said Tyson told her about the molestation in 2013 at a conference in Chicago. Hancock Alfaro recalled Tyson sharing a story from years earlier about when her father tried contacting her while she was an undergraduate student at Princeton University: “The fact that he was trying to reach out to her was too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘She owns her story. She is a survivor. She is not a victim.’\u003ccite>Professor Nadia Brown, Purdue University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said she lost legal protection from her father when she turned 18 during her first year at Princeton. Around this time, during late fall of 1994, Tyson said her panic attacks started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I willingly kissed someone for the first time, and this one small act unleashed a tidal wave of emotions, coupled with flashbacks to years of terror from my youth,” she wrote in October 2018 in an essay for the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, publishing in March (Brown, the Purdue professor guest-editing the issue, shared a draft of the essay with KQED).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson said she tried to “fix” herself while in college and graduate school, reading books on trauma and childhood sexual abuse and using available counseling resources, she said in the essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she turned to advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 26, she began speaking publicly about child sex abuse, and soon after co-founded the Survivor Speakers’ Bureau of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Tyson said in her essay. She also started a program teaching self-esteem and self-awareness at a girls detention center in Framingham, Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In sharing her story, she hoped to “help fellow survivors in the way that others’ stories had helped me,” she wrote in the essay. “My greatest inspiration, however, remained the deep-seeded belief that my efforts might help to reverse a cycle of abuse and trauma that seemed pervasive in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson has also joined efforts to address sexual harassment in the political science community as part of the #MeTooPoliSci collective, said Brown and Strolovitch. In her latest work, she is shifting her focus from race and representation in Congress to \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/current-fellows#222660\">sexual violence against women and children \u003c/a>— research she has been incubating for years, said her friends and colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson wants to examine political discourse surrounding assault, corresponding policies and the unique identities of survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionne said Tyson’s new project could also trigger her own trauma: “I think that that is really hard and that’s why I think what she’s done has been so brave — because it’s so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Junkie. Dodgers Fan. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political science academic community, and others, have rallied around Tyson, using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IBelieveVanessa&src=tyah\">#IBelieveVanessa\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/legal-defense-fund-for-dr-vanessa-tyson\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account, set up to raise money for legal and security expenses, has raised more than $30,000 since it launched on Feb. 6. Some of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WomensCaucus_PS/status/1093200643165163522\">her supporters\u003c/a> have been circulating a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxyJtQ-992MxfNSkUbSnQMqvahdIyOLk8G4gn-44iQZeCUwA/viewform\">statement of support\u003c/a> for Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11724401 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Tyson, left, with friend and fellow political science professor Melissa R. 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"content": "\u003cp>Vanessa Tyson, the California professor who has accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 in Boston, will meet with the prosecutor’s office in Massachusetts to detail her allegations, her lawyer said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people have told KQED that Tyson disclosed the alleged attack to them in the last year. A second woman has accused Fairfax of raping her when they were both students at Duke University in 2000; he has denied both allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said she was ready to investigate Tyson’s allegations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/13/suffolk-district-attorney-says-she-ready-investigate-allegation-that-lieutenant-governor-assaulted-woman-boston/qZbUnSubIFrAoCdmDeCJyN/story.html\">The Boston Globe reported\u003c/a> Tuesday. The Globe also reported that a spokeswoman for Fairfax, Lauren Burke, said he would cooperate with an investigation if a criminal complaint is filed but may file his “own criminal complaint in response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s attorney, Debra S. Katz, called Burke’s statement that Fairfax could initiate charges against Tyson “a shocking threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a clear effort to obstruct justice. Dr. Tyson will not be bullied and she will not be silenced by such threats,” Katz said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s decision to meet with authorities came one day after she gave her first public appearance since coming forward with her allegations a week ago. At a talk at Stanford University, “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo,” Tyson was greeted with a standing ovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to lead by example, no matter how hard it is,” said Tyson, a professor of political science at Scripps College in Claremont who is doing a yearlong fellowship at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu/\">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the talk said Tyson’s allegations against Fairfax would not be discussed. But her talk, given together with psychology professor Jennifer Freyd, touched upon questions and issues circulating since she went public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every woman matters. Every survivor matters. Regardless of their background,” Tyson said. “No one is disposable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson began her talk by noting that some 65 percent of American women and girls will be raped or become a victim of some type of sexual assault during their lifetimes, citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is drastically shaping how we see and interact with the world around us,” she said. “It is a public and health issue. It is killing us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson had long been open about being a survivor of childhood incest, friends — including Nadia Brown, an associate professor of political science and African American Studies at Purdue University — told KQED. But in her initial public statement, Tyson said she’d kept quiet about the alleged attack by Fairfax for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the assault, I suffered from both deep humiliation and shame. I did not speak about it for years, and I (like most survivors) suppressed those memories and emotions as a necessary means to continue my studies, and to pursue my goal of building a successful career as an academic,” she said in a statement issued by her lawyers last week. “At the time, I found this horrific incident especially degrading given my regular volunteer work at a local rape crisis center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her silence began to end when the #MeToo movement erupted in the fall of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The passion and resolve of so many survivors, coupled with the job security that tenure afforded me, gave me the strength I simply did not have in 2004,” she said in last week’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two longtime friends, professors Dara Strolovitch and Kim Yi Dionne, said Tyson disclosed the alleged assault to them in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freyd, who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years, said Tyson also shared details about the encounter with her and a few other colleagues at Stanford last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard,” Freyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freyd said Fairfax’s initial response to Tyson’s allegations also followed a pattern, citing a term she coined: DARVO, or “deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest problems with these DARVO responses coming from people in positions of power is it really silences so many other people,” Freyd said. “Because once you see that response, you don’t want to subject yourself to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer said her client will cooperate with all “appropriate investigations,” and was awaiting further word from leadership in the Virginia Legislature about how it will proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 14: This story has been updated to include additional information about sources who gave interviews. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s decision to meet with authorities came one day after she gave her first public appearance since coming forward with her allegations a week ago. At a talk at Stanford University, “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo,” Tyson was greeted with a standing ovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you have to lead by example, no matter how hard it is,” said Tyson, a professor of political science at Scripps College in Claremont who is doing a yearlong fellowship at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu/\">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the talk said Tyson’s allegations against Fairfax would not be discussed. But her talk, given together with psychology professor Jennifer Freyd, touched upon questions and issues circulating since she went public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every woman matters. Every survivor matters. Regardless of their background,” Tyson said. “No one is disposable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson began her talk by noting that some 65 percent of American women and girls will be raped or become a victim of some type of sexual assault during their lifetimes, citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is drastically shaping how we see and interact with the world around us,” she said. “It is a public and health issue. It is killing us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson had long been open about being a survivor of childhood incest, friends — including Nadia Brown, an associate professor of political science and African American Studies at Purdue University — told KQED. But in her initial public statement, Tyson said she’d kept quiet about the alleged attack by Fairfax for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the assault, I suffered from both deep humiliation and shame. I did not speak about it for years, and I (like most survivors) suppressed those memories and emotions as a necessary means to continue my studies, and to pursue my goal of building a successful career as an academic,” she said in a statement issued by her lawyers last week. “At the time, I found this horrific incident especially degrading given my regular volunteer work at a local rape crisis center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her silence began to end when the #MeToo movement erupted in the fall of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The passion and resolve of so many survivors, coupled with the job security that tenure afforded me, gave me the strength I simply did not have in 2004,” she said in last week’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two longtime friends, professors Dara Strolovitch and Kim Yi Dionne, said Tyson disclosed the alleged assault to them in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freyd, who has studied sexual violence for more than 25 years, said Tyson also shared details about the encounter with her and a few other colleagues at Stanford last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about her story was consistent psychologically and structurally with dozens, if not hundreds, of other accounts I’ve heard,” Freyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freyd said Fairfax’s initial response to Tyson’s allegations also followed a pattern, citing a term she coined: DARVO, or “deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest problems with these DARVO responses coming from people in positions of power is it really silences so many other people,” Freyd said. “Because once you see that response, you don’t want to subject yourself to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson’s lawyer said her client will cooperate with all “appropriate investigations,” and was awaiting further word from leadership in the Virginia Legislature about how it will proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 14: This story has been updated to include additional information about sources who gave interviews. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Thursday, Feb. 7, 11:00 a.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California professor who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault has come forward with her name and her story, detailing the 2004 encounter when they attended the Democratic National Convention in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Tyson, an associate professor in the politics department at Scripps College in Claremont who is currently a fellow at Stanford University, said she recently wrote in a private message on Facebook that she was assaulted by someone at the convention — but she didn’t name Fairfax. The conservative website Big League Politics published the message earlier this week, naming Fairfax as the alleged assailant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson, who next week is scheduled to give a talk — \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/casbs-symposium-betrayal-and-courage-in-the-age-of-metoo-tickets-54715313977\"> Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo\u003c/a> — at Stanford, said she decided to go public after Fairfax issued a statement and spoke with reporters to deny the allegations. He said the encounter was consensual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With tremendous anguish, I am now sharing this information about my experience and setting the record straight,” Tyson said in her statement shared by NPR. “Given his false assertions, I’m compelled to make clear what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political science academic community, and others, have rallied around Tyson, using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IBelieveVanessa&src=tyah\">#IBelieveVanessa\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/legal-defense-fund-for-dr-vanessa-tyson\">GoFundMe account\u003c/a> set up to raise money for legal and security expenses has raised more than $15,000 since it launched on Wednesday. A Slack group was formed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WomensCaucus_PS/status/1093200643165163522\">to help connect her supporters\u003c/a>, who were also asking people to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxyJtQ-992MxfNSkUbSnQMqvahdIyOLk8G4gn-44iQZeCUwA/viewform\">sign a statement supporting Tyson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/profmichelson/status/1093278551803981824\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never underestimate the power of feminist political scientists,” wrote Nadia E. Brown, an associate professor of political science at Purdue University, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrownPhDGirl/status/1093280204968157190\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/brownphdgirl/status/1092945617351929856?s=12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Freyd, who is a part of the Stanford fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, said Tyson told her and a few other colleagues about the 2004 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/05/virginia-lt-gov-fairfax-accuser-told-friend-at-stanford-about-2004-sexual-assault/\">the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a> reported. Freyd doesn’t remember whether Tyson named Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa R. Michelson, a professor of political science at Menlo College in Atherton who has known Tyson for many years as a colleague and a friend, said she didn’t recall Tyson speaking to her about the alleged 2004 attack. Michelson said she reached out to Tyson via text message after news broke about the incident, but Tyson indicated she couldn’t communicate with her about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m assuming … there are legal reasons why she can’t be in touch with me and the other folks who are doing what we can to support her,” she told KQED. (Debra Katz, a founding partner of the law firm representing Tyson, said she wouldn’t be doing interviews).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really worried about her,” Michelson said. “I knew that Vanessa would need support. … And so her other friends and I started talking about what we could do to support her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson, who started the GoFundMe fund, hasn’t been surprised by the donations — which surpassed the goal of $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“It shows me how well loved and respected Vanessa is,” she said. “I think that’s testament to her reputation as a human being, as a scholar, as someone who is trustworthy, as someone who should be believed. … That’s the reputation that Vanessa has built up as the wonderful person that she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11724401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Tyson, left, with friend and fellow political science professor, Melissa R. Michelson, in Vancouver in April 2017. Michelson started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help raise money for Tyson’s security and legal expenses in the wake of her coming forward. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa R. Michelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Virginia politics has been rocked by a number of revelations in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate scandal has engulfed Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration since a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced. Northam initially acknowledged he was in the photo and apologized. Then, a day later, he denied being in the photo but said he had appeared in blackface around the same time as part of a dance competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Northam should resign, as many local and national politicians on both sides of the aisle have urged him to do, Fairfax would assume the governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Fairfax released another statement, NPR reported. He said Tyson’s allegation was “surprising and hurtful,” and he wanted to stress “how important it is for us to listen to women when they come forward with allegations of sexual assault or harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tyson’s statement, she and Fairfax had struck up a “cordial, but not flirtatious” relationship by the third day of the convention in 2004. On July 28, Tyson said Fairfax invited her to his hotel room to retrieve documents, and upon their arrival, began to kiss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault,” Tyson alleges in a statement \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/1093223842745647104\">released on her attorneys’ letterhead\u003c/a>. She says he forced her to perform oral sex on him despite her struggles against doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual,” Tyson added. “To be very clear, I did not want to engage in oral sex with Mr. Fairfax and I never gave any form of consent. Quite the opposite. I consciously avoided Mr. Fairfax for the remainder of the Convention and I never spoke to him again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfax has strongly rejected the allegation since it first surfaced publicly on Sunday. He pointed out that The Washington Post, though it was previously aware of the allegation, decided not to publish it last year (the Post said it decided not to publish the story because it couldn’t corroborate either party’s description of the events).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson says she had been undecided about whether to come forward, but that her hand had been forced by the conservative blog. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691530607/woman-alleging-sexual-assault-by-virginias-lt-gov-hires-washington-law-firm\">then retained\u003c/a> Katz, Marshall and Banks, the Washington, D.C.-based firm that represented Christine Blasey Ford — who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, which he denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson is researching the politics and policies surrounding sexual violence against women and children in the U.S. during her fellowship year at Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/current-fellows#222660\">according to her biography\u003c/a>. She served as one of the founding members of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Survivor Speakers’ Bureau, and began a self-esteem/self-awareness program for female juvenile offenders in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR and KQED News’ Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Freyd, who is a part of the Stanford fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, said Tyson told her and a few other colleagues about the 2004 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/05/virginia-lt-gov-fairfax-accuser-told-friend-at-stanford-about-2004-sexual-assault/\">the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a> reported. Freyd doesn’t remember whether Tyson named Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa R. Michelson, a professor of political science at Menlo College in Atherton who has known Tyson for many years as a colleague and a friend, said she didn’t recall Tyson speaking to her about the alleged 2004 attack. Michelson said she reached out to Tyson via text message after news broke about the incident, but Tyson indicated she couldn’t communicate with her about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m assuming … there are legal reasons why she can’t be in touch with me and the other folks who are doing what we can to support her,” she told KQED. (Debra Katz, a founding partner of the law firm representing Tyson, said she wouldn’t be doing interviews).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really worried about her,” Michelson said. “I knew that Vanessa would need support. … And so her other friends and I started talking about what we could do to support her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson, who started the GoFundMe fund, hasn’t been surprised by the donations — which surpassed the goal of $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“It shows me how well loved and respected Vanessa is,” she said. “I think that’s testament to her reputation as a human being, as a scholar, as someone who is trustworthy, as someone who should be believed. … That’s the reputation that Vanessa has built up as the wonderful person that she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11724401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/02062019_tysonmichelson-qut.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Tyson, left, with friend and fellow political science professor, Melissa R. 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He said Tyson’s allegation was “surprising and hurtful,” and he wanted to stress “how important it is for us to listen to women when they come forward with allegations of sexual assault or harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tyson’s statement, she and Fairfax had struck up a “cordial, but not flirtatious” relationship by the third day of the convention in 2004. On July 28, Tyson said Fairfax invited her to his hotel room to retrieve documents, and upon their arrival, began to kiss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault,” Tyson alleges in a statement \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/1093223842745647104\">released on her attorneys’ letterhead\u003c/a>. 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And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And so I'm happy tonight; I'm not worried about anything; I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed his death, King's commitment to spiritually based, non-violent civil disobedience has been ridiculed and vilified by some of those frustrated with what he failed to accomplish in his short life. But it's also true that year after year, we celebrate and idolize the man. History books written for children simplify the civil rights movement so that King stands alone, an iconic prophet standing by the Washington Monument, impossible to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"King's agenda was fulfilled not during the 1960s. 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Barber's ear,\" Carson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are big words, but Barber delivered at Stanford’s Memorial Church Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber limped to the podium with a knee injury sustained, he said, during a recent arrest in Washington DC. He also struggles with a medical condition that affects his mobility, but the overall effect of watching this former football player struggle to his feet elicits a rush of sympathy and concern from his audiences around the country when he rises to speak. It's something you don't see when you see him on television, seated on a panel on MSNBC or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IV6kKWr1Q&t=136s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Time With Bill Maher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capacity crowd of 1,500 rose to greet him with a standing ovation. Half the people in the pews looked old enough to have marched with Dr. King. Half looked just old enough to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastor began by arguing against indulging in nostalgia for the glory days of the civil rights movement. \"I'm humbled to stand before you as we honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and I will tell you, I don't do King celebrations. Because I think we're at a point where we do not need to celebrate as much as we need to engage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he went on to say, \"To truly honor a martyr, we must go where they fell, pick up their baton, and carry it the rest the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Dr. King, Barber challenges his audiences to do something about systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and other injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Dr. King, Barber employs many of the same political tools: marches, civil disobedience and voter registration drives. In recent years, he co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/demands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival\u003c/a>, a revival of the original launched by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3PUghqlAA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is firmly in the Democrats' camp, and beyond that, the progressive wing of it, but he rhetorically insists on a bi-partisan, historically rooted understanding of American politics, urging liberals to move past their current, obsessive hatred of President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me say Trump is not America's biggest problem. Oh, I knew y'all wasn't going to clap. That's alright. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. this week, it's easy to fall into hero worship. He was so young when he ascended into leadership in the civil rights movement. He was so charged with spiritual righteousness of a kind we rarely see today. He was so eloquent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read just a little bit of his famous \u003ca href=\"https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ive-been-mountaintop-address-delivered-bishop-charles-mason-temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last address\u003c/a> before he was assassinated, \"I've Been to the Mountaintop,\" delivered at Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life—longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And so I'm happy tonight; I'm not worried about anything; I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed his death, King's commitment to spiritually based, non-violent civil disobedience has been ridiculed and vilified by some of those frustrated with what he failed to accomplish in his short life. But it's also true that year after year, we celebrate and idolize the man. History books written for children simplify the civil rights movement so that King stands alone, an iconic prophet standing by the Washington Monument, impossible to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"King's agenda was fulfilled not during the 1960s. If he were here on his 90th birthday, this is what he would be telling us,\" said Clayborn Carson, Stanford history professor and founding director of the University’s \u003ca href=\"https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate the 90th anniversary of King's birth, Carson reached out to a speaker some call the MLK of today, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.breachrepairers.org/about#rev-barber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rev. Dr. William Barber II\u003c/a> of Greenleaf Christian Church in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think, Rev. Barber, of all the contemporary leaders, comes closest to that kind of passion and deep sense of spiritual awareness of the problems of our society. It's almost like [King] is whispering in Rev. Barber's ear,\" Carson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are big words, but Barber delivered at Stanford’s Memorial Church Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber limped to the podium with a knee injury sustained, he said, during a recent arrest in Washington DC. He also struggles with a medical condition that affects his mobility, but the overall effect of watching this former football player struggle to his feet elicits a rush of sympathy and concern from his audiences around the country when he rises to speak. It's something you don't see when you see him on television, seated on a panel on MSNBC or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IV6kKWr1Q&t=136s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Time With Bill Maher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capacity crowd of 1,500 rose to greet him with a standing ovation. Half the people in the pews looked old enough to have marched with Dr. King. Half looked just old enough to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastor began by arguing against indulging in nostalgia for the glory days of the civil rights movement. \"I'm humbled to stand before you as we honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and I will tell you, I don't do King celebrations. Because I think we're at a point where we do not need to celebrate as much as we need to engage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he went on to say, \"To truly honor a martyr, we must go where they fell, pick up their baton, and carry it the rest the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Dr. King, Barber challenges his audiences to do something about systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and other injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Dr. King, Barber employs many of the same political tools: marches, civil disobedience and voter registration drives. In recent years, he co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/demands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival\u003c/a>, a revival of the original launched by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aw3PUghqlAA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aw3PUghqlAA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is firmly in the Democrats' camp, and beyond that, the progressive wing of it, but he rhetorically insists on a bi-partisan, historically rooted understanding of American politics, urging liberals to move past their current, obsessive hatred of President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me say Trump is not America's biggest problem. Oh, I knew y'all wasn't going to clap. That's alright. Trump is a symptom!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber diagnoses instead a \"spiritual and moral sickness that has not been cleansed from the veins of this democracy still produces moral emergency we are facing as a democracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"America needs more than a new president. We need a new moral revolution of values,\" he said, raising one eyebrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber has developed a reputation for his King-like ability to blend politics and theology in his speeches without it feeling forced, and he invoked King's last speech in Memphis to argue for practical action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"True preaching cannot rest on a page, sit in a song, or travel on a tweet alone. Absolutely nothing would be more tragic than for us to turn back now. It’s movement time,\" he roared as the crowd rose to its feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those introducing him and Barber himself warned he was on a tight schedule. He would not be able to stay after the speech and personally respond to 1,500 people keen to shake his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he left the stage, presumably headed straight to the airport, the iconic local folk singer \u003ca href=\"http://www.joanbaez.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joan Baez\u003c/a> joined an a cappella group of Stanford student singers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanfordtalisman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talisman\u003c/a>, to sing an old civil rights standard, \u003cem>500 Miles\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For more than 15 years, Oakland's police department has been under federal oversight following a police abuse and racial profiling scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a negotiated settlement in 2003, the city agreed to work toward sweeping police reforms. The Riders Settlement mandated ongoing monitoring of the department, including the collection of data on police stops and an end to discriminatory policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's mounting frustration that federal oversight and better data collection have not led to real change, despite a massive price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past few years, Stanford University researchers have helped the Oakland Police Department analyze the data collected from every police stop and arrest. Studies carried out by the \u003ca href=\"https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports\">Stanford team show\u003c/a> that Oakland officers are still far more likely to stop, search and handcuff black people than white people during a traffic or pedestrian stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysis of bodycam footage also showed that, during traffic stops, officers spoke less respectfully to black motorists than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Oakland's police department says the studies have proved invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of agencies collect data. But we have gone and worked with Stanford to say 'teach us how to ask the questions of that data, teach us how to think.' I want a change of how we think about policing. And when you think differently you're going to have culture change,\" says Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11253123/after-long-search-oakland-naming-new-police-chief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She was hired less than two years ago\u003c/a> in the wake of a different police scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what the police chief and the city's mayor had hoped would become a national model for a data-driven reduction in racially biased policing has become the latest flashpoint for Oakland's troubled department.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201409190930/stanford-psychologist-wins-genius-grant-for-work-on-racial-bias\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Psychologist Wins 'Genius' Grant for Work on Racial Bias\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Activist residents and some local politicians protested the recent renewal of the Stanford professor, Jennifer Eberhardt's $500,000 two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't understand why she needs to come back and ask for more money,\" says Cathy Leonard, founder of Oakland Neighborhoods for Equity. \"Fifteen years and a lot of money. We could have housed people, we could fix our streets. It's a waste of money and a waste of resources.\" Leonard says the department seems in love with big data and stuck on a hamster wheel of collection and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of keeping the monitoring program ongoing is high. According to public records from the city of Oakland requested by the Coalition for Police Accountability, the annual cost of the monitoring program is estimated at $1.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard says the new system hasn't worked to reduce racially biased police stops — a key aspect of the federal settlement more than 15 years ago. \"Black people are being forced out of the city of Oakland due to gentrification and other matters. And yet the police are still stopping black men at exponential rates. The only thing that can be explained by is racism, pure and simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilwoman Desley Brooks also questions why the police chief needs an outside consultant to interpret data and help make policy. Brooks says neither the chief nor the professor has been able to move the needle on an issue they were hired to help fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is that if you are the one that is stopped when there is no reason for you to be stopped except for the color of your skin, that is unacceptable. You know that it takes away a part of your dignity,\" Brooks says. \"The mayor said it, the chief of police said it, Dr. Eberhardt has said it: Racial profiling is unacceptable. Then why haven't you came up with anything that addresses racial profiling?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The disparities with respect to African-Americans particularly has remained constant throughout all of Dr. Eberhardt's work,\" Brooks says, adding \"the reason that we got into this contract was to help us reduce the disparities. They have not. It's not that difficult to understand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick defends her department, saying the total number of people stopped by police has gone down. But she acknowledges that the percentage of African Americans stopped remains higher than the number of white people stopped. \"Right. So we're starting first with the 'footprint,'\" she says. \"We still know that it's disproportionate. And it is that disparity, that lack of equity, that is now the target.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick says the department has also reduced officer use of force and traffic stops for minor mechanical problems. 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"content": "\u003cp>Silicon Valley voters will be able to decide in June whether to recall a judge criticized for his handling of the case of a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault, officials announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County registrar of voters said enough of the valid signatures of registered voters had been collected to place the recall of Judge Aaron Persky on the June 5 ballot. The recall campaign submitted 94,539 signatures, and 58,634 are needed to make it onto the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders began seeking to oust Persky after he sentenced Brock Turner to six months in jail. A jury convicted Turner of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a trash bin after an on-campus party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persky cited Turner's previously spotless criminal record and adopted the recommendation of the county's probation office. Turner is also required to register as a sex offender for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persky's critics argue the sentence was too light. Turner was released from jail after serving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/02/brock-turner-released-from-jail-after-three-months/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three months\u003c/a> with credit for good behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentence ignited debate over judicial treatment of sexual assault victims and sentencing inequities between the poor and privileged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This historic campaign is part of a national social movement to end impunity for athletes and other privileged perpetrators of sexual assault and violence against women,\" said Stanford University law professor, a recall campaign leader and friend of the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persky didn't respond to an email inquiry late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California law requires every judge to consider rehabilitation and probation for first-time offenders,\" Persky states on his \u003ca href=\"http://www.voicesagainstrecall.org/statement/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> urging a no vote on the recall. \"It's not always popular, but it's the law, and I took an oath to follow it without regard to public opinion or any personal opinions I might have as a former prosecutor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persky is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to stop the recall. Persky argues that judges are state officers and recall elections should be handled by the California secretary of state's office and not the county registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recall effort does not comply with the California Constitution,\" said Elizabeth Pipkin, an attorney representing Persky. \"It's unlawful, and in defending the Constitution and the independence of judges, we are protecting the rights of all citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Santa Clara County registrar of voters, the vote to recall Persky will be paired with a vote to decide who will replace him if he is removed from office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's not just Hollywood, politics and media where allegations of sexual misconduct are pouring in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in academia are sharing in the #MeToo moment, opening up about the high-ranking professors they say abused their trust and violated their bodies when they were graduate students. The women describe experiences of being stalked, forcibly kissed and raped by men who were entrusted with shepherding them through their studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates fighting to prevent sexual violence and harassment on college campuses say cases allegedly involving professors who taught at Stanford University and UC Berkeley point to a \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture in graduate schools\u003c/a> where powerful professors are protected and allowed to act with near impunity at the expense of the students who depend on them for advice, guidance and the recommendations they needed to advance their education and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Election Stirs Uncomfortable Memories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as Seo-Young Chu watched Donald Trump ascend to the highest office in the country, she felt an eerie sense of familiarity. Maybe it was the crude language he used to describe women on the \"Access Hollywood\" videotape, or the women who came forward during the campaign alleging he'd sexually harassed them, but Chu felt she recognized those mannerisms of his, and they jogged ugly memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a moment, I remember watching TV and thinking 'How could they elect Jay Fliegelman?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Fliegelman had been Chu's dissertation adviser at Stanford 17 years ago. Chu was a 21-year-old graduate student in the English Department who'd tried to commit suicide not long before and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Fliegelman was a leading scholar and \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/august22/fliegelman-082207.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Literature professor\u003c/a>. He died in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman harassed her, touched her and ultimately raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-960x740.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It started with strange remarks,” Chu says. Then, she says, Fliegelman invited her to his house to see \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his famous collection of rare books\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in his living room,\" Chu says. \"I remember him telling me that his current project was about his books, and that reading his books meant feeling them and touching them and being emotional with them, possessive even, and that’s when he started touching me. I couldn’t move. I was petrified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day in class, she says, she didn’t know how to interact with him. Then, she says, he invited her back to his house. “This was the man who would be writing letters of recommendation for me and, in his words, controlling my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worried that if she declined his invitation, she’d be shunned. “He was so powerful,” she says. “He was this man who could get you jobs in a market where it’s difficult to get jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she went back. “I thought, well, I’ll go to his house, but if he starts doing something I won’t let it happen. But he did something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman raped her that night. She didn't report the assault. \"I didn't know what to do,\" she says. \"I felt powerless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment went on and, finally, she told him she was gay. It wasn’t exactly true, but it was the only way she could see to navigate what she calls his \"fragile ego\" and power over her future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a forced coming out, one she still resents. Chu says she is bisexual but didn’t get a chance to fully explore her sexuality as a young person. She says she’d been a virgin before the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg\" alt=\"'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1920x2402.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-520x651.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Chu says, she fell apart. Seeing her pain, a friend started making calls on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what happened next is hazy for Chu. But \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/herbert-lindenberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Stanford English professor Herbert Lindenberger\u003c/a> said in an email he reported the misconduct to the chair of the English Department and a graduate student reported it to the dean's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a supportive note on Chu’s Facebook page \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1518874364868885&set=a.606218539467810.1073741835.100002390091936&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responding to a post about her experience\u003c/a>, Lindenberger described how the campus community reacted when he spoke out: “Because I played a key role in instigating Fliegelman's punishment,\" he wrote, \"a number of my friends -- colleagues and students whom he mentored -- have held my role against me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open letter last month on Facebook, Chu claims that others enabled \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sj.chu.9/posts/1519896918099963\">Fliegelman's conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stanford Investigation Concludes There Was Harassment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the allegations first surfaced, Stanford University hired an outside lawyer to investigate. Stanford said it could not share the findings of that investigation due to privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just recently Chu herself managed to get a summary of the findings after repeatedly pressing the university. The two-page letter from Stanford's general counsel summarized the 2000 investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4323656-Debra-Zumwalt-Letter-to-Seo-Young-Chu-11-27-2017.html\" responsive=true sidebar=false text=false pdf=false]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the investigation found Fliegelman had called Chu repeatedly and left her messages with sexual content, showed her pornography and initiated oral sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You stated that the sexual contact was preceded by your stating that you were uncomfortable and wanted to leave,\" the letter reads. The summary says Fliegelman disputed that, but the letter continues, \"Although there were no other witnesses to this incident, the investigation found that you made contemporaneous reports to others that were consistent with your assertion that the contact was nonconsensual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the findings, the provost at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/provost-john-etchemendy-leaves-remarkable-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Etchemendy\u003c/a>, concluded that Fliegelman \"engaged in a pattern of unwelcome verbal conduct of a sexual nature, and engaged in an incident of physical sexual contact under circumstances that were extremely inappropriate and in which your assent could be questioned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was suspended for two years, barred from the department during that time and sent to mandatory counseling. Then he went back to teaching at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was later honored multiple times -- at a one-day conference at Stanford known as \"Jayfest\" put on by former grad students, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when the university acquired his rare book collection\u003c/a>, and when he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This to me encapsulates the problem. The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.'\u003ccite>Michele Dauber, Stanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The university also named an award in his honor, a practice the university followed for other faculty but which it has since discontinued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies also named a mentorship award after Fliegelman. The society renamed it after hearing from Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was honored even though his sexual misconduct case was well-known on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he died in 2007, following standard practice at Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/minutes-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a colleague read a memorial resolution\u003c/a> honoring him in the Faculty Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/memlflie-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described Fliegelman as a dedicated teacher and mentor\u003c/a>. \"On three occasions he won awards for teaching, including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Associated Students of Stanford University Teaching Award,\" it said. \"These honors do not begin to tell the story of his remarkable devotion to classroom instruction and to advising and reading dissertations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone there -- including Provost Etchemendy, who disciplined Fliegelman -- stood in tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322446-Stanford-Faculty-Senate-Minutes.html\" responsive=true]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me encapsulates the problem,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/10/02/woman-of-steel/\">Michele Dauber\u003c/a>, a professor at Stanford Law School and a vocal advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus. \"The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Dauber it’s not a surprise. “This is what has been my experience at Stanford: light consequences followed by a sense that this kind of conduct just isn’t bad enough to remove someone from this community. And that is the sense that really must change if we’re going to make any progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says sexual misconduct occurs on many college campuses, but she argues an acute lack of transparency at private universities like Stanford contributes to a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford Law School professor Michele Dauber has been an advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus for the last decade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michele Dauber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Private schools aren't subject to public records laws, though they're \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/06/are-harvard-yale-and-stanford-really-public-universities/?utm_term=.b7b5ccdfaba0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heavily subsidized\u003c/a> by taxpayers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/Rich%20Schools%20Poor%20Students.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2015 report\u003c/a> found Stanford receives $63,100 in tax subsidies per student, while UC Berkeley -- which is subject to public records laws -- receives $10,500 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are literally awash in government money and yet they are not subject to the same kinds of transparency that we impose on public schools,\" Dauber says. \"It is contrary to the public interest to spend so much public money on a black box, particularly where sexual harassment and assault by faculty are concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has publicly called for the university to disavow the memorial resolution, and says she's putting together a formal request to the Faculty Senate in conjunction with other faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Chu's case, Stanford University says the Title IX office is \"reviewing the allegations to see if there is an action for the university to take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Stanford has tried to make it easier for students to report sexual misconduct. The school has created \u003ca href=\"https://sexualviolencesupport.stanford.edu/reporting/review-my-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential resources to provide support to students\u003c/a> and strengthened policies governing \u003ca href=\"https://adminguide.stanford.edu/chapter-1/subchapter-7/policy-1-7-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships between faculty and students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Emily Doe's' Letter to Brock Turner Inspired Chu to Speak Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chu is now \u003ca href=\"http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/\">an associate professor in the English Department\u003c/a> at Queens College CUNY. She started writing about her experience at Stanford on Facebook last summer, after she read \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.at3agQyyP#.kn65ymeek\">Emily Doe’s letter to Brock Turner\u003c/a>, the Stanford student convicted for sexually assaulting Doe while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an essay\u003c/a> in Entropy magazine that has brought her considerable attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AJzRscZwlRyHNOoaFCgbB6WhqWx4yXiJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford did offer Chu an apology. In that Nov. 27 letter summarizing the investigation, the general counsel, Debra Zumwalt, wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of Stanford University, let me express how sorry I am that you have suffered as a result of a faculty member's misconduct. You did the right thing by bringing this issue forward back in 2000, and we are grateful to you for doing so.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's the first apology Chu recalls getting from the university, but instead of bringing her closure, the letter raises more questions for her. She remembers being raped all too clearly, she says, and doesn't understand why the school found Fliegelman responsible only for harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point what I really want is an explanation,\" Chu says. \"I want to move on, but first I need to understand what happened to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu requested a copy of the investigative report on her case from Stanford, but hasn't received it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>UC Berkeley Grad Student Shares Familiar Story of Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A couple of days after Chu’s essay came out, another woman made public her own decades-old allegations against a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Latta was in her first semester of grad school at UC Berkeley in the mid-'80s when she took a class from a visiting professor: \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/franco-moretti\">Franco Moretti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta during her first few weeks at UC Berkeley in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KimberlySuzannJoansdottir/posts/10155592416355202?pnref=story\">In a Nov. 5 letter posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, Latta writes that Moretti “sexually stalked,\" \"pressured\" and \"raped” her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember wanting him to stop and telling him I don’t like this, I'm not comfortable with this,\" she says in an interview. To which she remembers him responding, “‘You American women, when you say no you mean yes.’” Moretti is Italian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment continued for several months. During his office hours in the English Department, she remembers Moretti pushing her up against the wall and grabbing her breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember feeling kind of revolted and paralyzed and embarrassed and ashamed and deeply uncomfortable,” she says, “and yet totally and completely passive and unable to do anything. For the longest time I remember feeling so ashamed of myself for having allowed that to happen, as though it were somehow my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Latta says, she became sick with anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped going to Moretti’s class because she’d get sick to her stomach when she did. She went to Berkeley’s Title IX office to make a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember walking in and thinking, ‘Oh shit.’\" The officer at the time was Frances Ferguson, another professor in the English department. Latta remembers crying in Ferguson’s office and telling her she was being harassed. She doesn’t remember if she told Ferguson she’d been raped. “I was deeply ashamed of that,\" Latta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says Ferguson actively discouraged her from reporting. \"Her demeanor and coldness led me to believe that if I were to go through with a formal process, there would be nobody at the university who would be on my side, who would believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She assumed it was because Ferguson and Moretti knew each other, and “they were on the same team and I wasn’t. I was an expendable graduate student.” Both professors deny they were friends at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1180x947.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-960x771.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Ferguson said she hadn’t understood the misconduct to be so significant. She recalled Latta describing sexual harassment, not assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect that we remember some of these events differently,\" she said in the statement. \"Had any student at Berkeley brought a formal complaint concerning such allegations, I would have pursued it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t Latta’s impression. So instead of going through with the formal process, Latta says, she told Moretti she’d reported him to the university. She says he threatened to destroy her reputation and end her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretti is now a professor emeritus at Stanford. He did not respond to a request for comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/09/two-women-accuse-former-stanford-professors-of-sexual-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the Stanford Daily\u003c/a> he denies the rape allegation. He said Latta had been a consensual partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out to dinner together one night and back to her apartment, where we had fully consensual sex and I spent the night,” Moretti told the campus paper. “I did not rape her, and am horrified by the accusation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he and Latta kept meeting, and maintained their acquaintance until he left Berkeley. He also denied threatening Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of Latta’s, who was a fellow student in Moretti’s class, confirmed much of Latta’s account. She asked not to be named because she’s still in academia. She remembers Latta agreeing to go on a date with Moretti and having a bad experience, though she didn’t know the details. Afterward, she says, the professor wouldn’t stop pursuing Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically we would call it stalking,” she said. “She would leave his office and be very upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend remembers Latta trying to make a complaint and later telling her that she’d been threatened with legal recrimination. The friend says Latta was a strong student, but ended up dropping out because of the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says that’s true. She didn’t finish her Ph.D. at Berkeley. “I had to leave academia for a long time because of what happened,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the trauma of the alleged assault and harassment, or the way the university responded that affected her. She says the experience with Moretti undermined her sense of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta with family on her 25th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At first I thought he was interested in me because he thought I had an interesting mind,” she says. “But then to find out it was only sex -- it really sapped me of my sense of myself as an intellectual. It took me a long time to gather myself together and feel like a competent scholar after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says she has wanted to tell this story for years, but it’s only because she feels buoyed by the recent wave of women's public testimonies that she’s doing it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t any longer feel like a single voice crying in the wilderness,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University says it is reviewing her allegations against Moretti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Latta spoke out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/harassment-assault-allegations-against-moretti-span-three-campuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another allegation involving Moretti has surfaced\u003c/a> from Jane Penner, a woman who alleges he harassed her while she was attending a seminar at Dartmouth University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing women like Chu, Latta and Penner come forward as part of the #MeToo movement is heartening, says Stanford student Stephanie Pham, who founded the university’s Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention. But, she says, it's also upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I’ve found most disappointing and scary is that if you compare what happened to these survivors decades -- generations -- ago, to what’s happening now, you see that nothing has really changed,” Pham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, about 40 percent of undergrad women who were surveyed said they had experienced sexual violence in some form at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham says, “History continues to repeat itself.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Fliegelman had been Chu's dissertation adviser at Stanford 17 years ago. Chu was a 21-year-old graduate student in the English Department who'd tried to commit suicide not long before and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Fliegelman was a leading scholar and \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/august22/fliegelman-082207.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Literature professor\u003c/a>. He died in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman harassed her, touched her and ultimately raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-960x740.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It started with strange remarks,” Chu says. Then, she says, Fliegelman invited her to his house to see \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his famous collection of rare books\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in his living room,\" Chu says. \"I remember him telling me that his current project was about his books, and that reading his books meant feeling them and touching them and being emotional with them, possessive even, and that’s when he started touching me. I couldn’t move. I was petrified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day in class, she says, she didn’t know how to interact with him. Then, she says, he invited her back to his house. “This was the man who would be writing letters of recommendation for me and, in his words, controlling my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worried that if she declined his invitation, she’d be shunned. “He was so powerful,” she says. “He was this man who could get you jobs in a market where it’s difficult to get jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she went back. “I thought, well, I’ll go to his house, but if he starts doing something I won’t let it happen. But he did something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman raped her that night. She didn't report the assault. \"I didn't know what to do,\" she says. \"I felt powerless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment went on and, finally, she told him she was gay. It wasn’t exactly true, but it was the only way she could see to navigate what she calls his \"fragile ego\" and power over her future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a forced coming out, one she still resents. Chu says she is bisexual but didn’t get a chance to fully explore her sexuality as a young person. She says she’d been a virgin before the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg\" alt=\"'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1920x2402.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-520x651.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Chu says, she fell apart. Seeing her pain, a friend started making calls on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what happened next is hazy for Chu. But \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/herbert-lindenberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Stanford English professor Herbert Lindenberger\u003c/a> said in an email he reported the misconduct to the chair of the English Department and a graduate student reported it to the dean's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a supportive note on Chu’s Facebook page \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1518874364868885&set=a.606218539467810.1073741835.100002390091936&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responding to a post about her experience\u003c/a>, Lindenberger described how the campus community reacted when he spoke out: “Because I played a key role in instigating Fliegelman's punishment,\" he wrote, \"a number of my friends -- colleagues and students whom he mentored -- have held my role against me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open letter last month on Facebook, Chu claims that others enabled \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sj.chu.9/posts/1519896918099963\">Fliegelman's conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stanford Investigation Concludes There Was Harassment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the allegations first surfaced, Stanford University hired an outside lawyer to investigate. Stanford said it could not share the findings of that investigation due to privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just recently Chu herself managed to get a summary of the findings after repeatedly pressing the university. The two-page letter from Stanford's general counsel summarized the 2000 investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the investigation found Fliegelman had called Chu repeatedly and left her messages with sexual content, showed her pornography and initiated oral sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You stated that the sexual contact was preceded by your stating that you were uncomfortable and wanted to leave,\" the letter reads. The summary says Fliegelman disputed that, but the letter continues, \"Although there were no other witnesses to this incident, the investigation found that you made contemporaneous reports to others that were consistent with your assertion that the contact was nonconsensual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the findings, the provost at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/provost-john-etchemendy-leaves-remarkable-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Etchemendy\u003c/a>, concluded that Fliegelman \"engaged in a pattern of unwelcome verbal conduct of a sexual nature, and engaged in an incident of physical sexual contact under circumstances that were extremely inappropriate and in which your assent could be questioned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was suspended for two years, barred from the department during that time and sent to mandatory counseling. Then he went back to teaching at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was later honored multiple times -- at a one-day conference at Stanford known as \"Jayfest\" put on by former grad students, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when the university acquired his rare book collection\u003c/a>, and when he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This to me encapsulates the problem. The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.'\u003ccite>Michele Dauber, Stanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The university also named an award in his honor, a practice the university followed for other faculty but which it has since discontinued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies also named a mentorship award after Fliegelman. The society renamed it after hearing from Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was honored even though his sexual misconduct case was well-known on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he died in 2007, following standard practice at Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/minutes-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a colleague read a memorial resolution\u003c/a> honoring him in the Faculty Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/memlflie-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described Fliegelman as a dedicated teacher and mentor\u003c/a>. \"On three occasions he won awards for teaching, including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Associated Students of Stanford University Teaching Award,\" it said. \"These honors do not begin to tell the story of his remarkable devotion to classroom instruction and to advising and reading dissertations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone there -- including Provost Etchemendy, who disciplined Fliegelman -- stood in tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me encapsulates the problem,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/10/02/woman-of-steel/\">Michele Dauber\u003c/a>, a professor at Stanford Law School and a vocal advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus. \"The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Dauber it’s not a surprise. “This is what has been my experience at Stanford: light consequences followed by a sense that this kind of conduct just isn’t bad enough to remove someone from this community. And that is the sense that really must change if we’re going to make any progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says sexual misconduct occurs on many college campuses, but she argues an acute lack of transparency at private universities like Stanford contributes to a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford Law School professor Michele Dauber has been an advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus for the last decade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michele Dauber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Private schools aren't subject to public records laws, though they're \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/06/are-harvard-yale-and-stanford-really-public-universities/?utm_term=.b7b5ccdfaba0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heavily subsidized\u003c/a> by taxpayers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/Rich%20Schools%20Poor%20Students.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2015 report\u003c/a> found Stanford receives $63,100 in tax subsidies per student, while UC Berkeley -- which is subject to public records laws -- receives $10,500 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are literally awash in government money and yet they are not subject to the same kinds of transparency that we impose on public schools,\" Dauber says. \"It is contrary to the public interest to spend so much public money on a black box, particularly where sexual harassment and assault by faculty are concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has publicly called for the university to disavow the memorial resolution, and says she's putting together a formal request to the Faculty Senate in conjunction with other faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Chu's case, Stanford University says the Title IX office is \"reviewing the allegations to see if there is an action for the university to take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Stanford has tried to make it easier for students to report sexual misconduct. The school has created \u003ca href=\"https://sexualviolencesupport.stanford.edu/reporting/review-my-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential resources to provide support to students\u003c/a> and strengthened policies governing \u003ca href=\"https://adminguide.stanford.edu/chapter-1/subchapter-7/policy-1-7-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships between faculty and students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Emily Doe's' Letter to Brock Turner Inspired Chu to Speak Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chu is now \u003ca href=\"http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/\">an associate professor in the English Department\u003c/a> at Queens College CUNY. She started writing about her experience at Stanford on Facebook last summer, after she read \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.at3agQyyP#.kn65ymeek\">Emily Doe’s letter to Brock Turner\u003c/a>, the Stanford student convicted for sexually assaulting Doe while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an essay\u003c/a> in Entropy magazine that has brought her considerable attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford did offer Chu an apology. In that Nov. 27 letter summarizing the investigation, the general counsel, Debra Zumwalt, wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of Stanford University, let me express how sorry I am that you have suffered as a result of a faculty member's misconduct. You did the right thing by bringing this issue forward back in 2000, and we are grateful to you for doing so.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's the first apology Chu recalls getting from the university, but instead of bringing her closure, the letter raises more questions for her. She remembers being raped all too clearly, she says, and doesn't understand why the school found Fliegelman responsible only for harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point what I really want is an explanation,\" Chu says. \"I want to move on, but first I need to understand what happened to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu requested a copy of the investigative report on her case from Stanford, but hasn't received it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>UC Berkeley Grad Student Shares Familiar Story of Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A couple of days after Chu’s essay came out, another woman made public her own decades-old allegations against a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Latta was in her first semester of grad school at UC Berkeley in the mid-'80s when she took a class from a visiting professor: \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/franco-moretti\">Franco Moretti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta during her first few weeks at UC Berkeley in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KimberlySuzannJoansdottir/posts/10155592416355202?pnref=story\">In a Nov. 5 letter posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, Latta writes that Moretti “sexually stalked,\" \"pressured\" and \"raped” her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember wanting him to stop and telling him I don’t like this, I'm not comfortable with this,\" she says in an interview. To which she remembers him responding, “‘You American women, when you say no you mean yes.’” Moretti is Italian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment continued for several months. During his office hours in the English Department, she remembers Moretti pushing her up against the wall and grabbing her breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember feeling kind of revolted and paralyzed and embarrassed and ashamed and deeply uncomfortable,” she says, “and yet totally and completely passive and unable to do anything. For the longest time I remember feeling so ashamed of myself for having allowed that to happen, as though it were somehow my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Latta says, she became sick with anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped going to Moretti’s class because she’d get sick to her stomach when she did. She went to Berkeley’s Title IX office to make a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember walking in and thinking, ‘Oh shit.’\" The officer at the time was Frances Ferguson, another professor in the English department. Latta remembers crying in Ferguson’s office and telling her she was being harassed. She doesn’t remember if she told Ferguson she’d been raped. “I was deeply ashamed of that,\" Latta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says Ferguson actively discouraged her from reporting. \"Her demeanor and coldness led me to believe that if I were to go through with a formal process, there would be nobody at the university who would be on my side, who would believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She assumed it was because Ferguson and Moretti knew each other, and “they were on the same team and I wasn’t. I was an expendable graduate student.” Both professors deny they were friends at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1180x947.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-960x771.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Ferguson said she hadn’t understood the misconduct to be so significant. She recalled Latta describing sexual harassment, not assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect that we remember some of these events differently,\" she said in the statement. \"Had any student at Berkeley brought a formal complaint concerning such allegations, I would have pursued it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t Latta’s impression. So instead of going through with the formal process, Latta says, she told Moretti she’d reported him to the university. She says he threatened to destroy her reputation and end her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretti is now a professor emeritus at Stanford. He did not respond to a request for comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/09/two-women-accuse-former-stanford-professors-of-sexual-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the Stanford Daily\u003c/a> he denies the rape allegation. He said Latta had been a consensual partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out to dinner together one night and back to her apartment, where we had fully consensual sex and I spent the night,” Moretti told the campus paper. “I did not rape her, and am horrified by the accusation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he and Latta kept meeting, and maintained their acquaintance until he left Berkeley. He also denied threatening Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of Latta’s, who was a fellow student in Moretti’s class, confirmed much of Latta’s account. She asked not to be named because she’s still in academia. She remembers Latta agreeing to go on a date with Moretti and having a bad experience, though she didn’t know the details. Afterward, she says, the professor wouldn’t stop pursuing Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically we would call it stalking,” she said. “She would leave his office and be very upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend remembers Latta trying to make a complaint and later telling her that she’d been threatened with legal recrimination. The friend says Latta was a strong student, but ended up dropping out because of the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says that’s true. She didn’t finish her Ph.D. at Berkeley. “I had to leave academia for a long time because of what happened,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the trauma of the alleged assault and harassment, or the way the university responded that affected her. She says the experience with Moretti undermined her sense of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta with family on her 25th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At first I thought he was interested in me because he thought I had an interesting mind,” she says. “But then to find out it was only sex -- it really sapped me of my sense of myself as an intellectual. It took me a long time to gather myself together and feel like a competent scholar after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says she has wanted to tell this story for years, but it’s only because she feels buoyed by the recent wave of women's public testimonies that she’s doing it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t any longer feel like a single voice crying in the wilderness,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University says it is reviewing her allegations against Moretti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Latta spoke out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/harassment-assault-allegations-against-moretti-span-three-campuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another allegation involving Moretti has surfaced\u003c/a> from Jane Penner, a woman who alleges he harassed her while she was attending a seminar at Dartmouth University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing women like Chu, Latta and Penner come forward as part of the #MeToo movement is heartening, says Stanford student Stephanie Pham, who founded the university’s Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention. But, she says, it's also upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I’ve found most disappointing and scary is that if you compare what happened to these survivors decades -- generations -- ago, to what’s happening now, you see that nothing has really changed,” Pham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, about 40 percent of undergrad women who were surveyed said they had experienced sexual violence in some form at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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