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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview this afternoon, KQED talked with UC President Janet Napolitano about the university's new process for reviewing sexual harassment claims, and about the alleged sexual harassment violations on the part of UC Berkeley's now-resigned law school dean and its men's basketball assistant coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251911362\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano emphasized the necessity of matching consequences with the seriousness of substantiated sexual harassment claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With respect to high-level administrators, I took action last week in part because it was just time to say, look, the sanctions need to match the seriousness of the behavior that's substantiated. 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And not be fearful that they will be the object of sexual harassment or sexual violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:27 a.m.:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley is firing men's basketball assistant coach Yann Hufnagel for allegedly violating the university's sexual harassment policy. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/14/uc-berkeley-assistant-coach-fired-for-violating-sexual-harassment-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUniversity of California President Janet Napolitano ordered a new process for reviewing sexual harassment claims against administrators after UC Berkeley faced a backlash over how it handled allegations against the dean of its law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sujit Choudhry resigned as dean last Thursday after his former executive assistant alleged in a lawsuit filed last week that her boss received only a temporary pay cut and orders to undergo counseling as punishment following a campus investigation that substantiated her claims that he repeatedly kissed and touched her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders must make sure that substantiated cases of sexual misconduct be dealt with \"firmly, fairly and expeditiously and that appropriate sanctions are imposed that recognize the serious nature of these claims,\" Napolitano said Friday in a letter to the system's 10 chancellors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She announced that a new systemwide committee would review and approve all proposed penalties for high-level administrators who violate sexual assault and harassment policies. She also ordered all chancellors, provosts, vice chancellors, vice provosts and deans to complete sexual assault and harassment training by March 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue is critically important to the University of California, and to me personally,\" the former Homeland Security secretary and Arizona governor wrote in the letter. \"At a minimum, our employees are entitled to come to work without fear of sexual harassment or sexual violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate letter, Napolitano told Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to take further action against Choudhry, who remains a member of the Berkeley Law faculty despite having resigned as dean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano directed Dirks to ban Choudhry from campus and start disciplinary proceedings against him through the Academic Senate, which could result in suspension or dismissal. Under the terms of the university's tenure rules, professors can be fired only by that panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano also told Dirks that the university system does not intend to defend Choudhry in court against his former assistant's claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dirks met with angry law school faculty members Thursday, along with Provost Claude Steele, who had said a day earlier that the disciplinary measures he had imposed on the dean in July were appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, the two said in a letter to law school professors, alumni and students that they welcomed the dean's resignation as being in the university's best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement provided by Berkeley, Choudhry said he disagreed with the allegations but could not comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-napolitano-harass-20160312-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Time first reported\u003c/a> on Napolitano's actions Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosures involving Choudhry came nearly five months after a prominent astronomer at Berkeley, Geoffrey Marcy, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/14/berkeley-astronomer-geoff-marcy-in-wake-of-sex-harassment-case\" target=\"_blank\">resigned amid a national outcry\u003c/a> over revelations that the school had substantiated sexual harassment complaints from former female students without demoting or suspending him from his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But if it's even a perceived culture, that's a problem, and we've got to fix that problem. I think people should be able to come to work. ... 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"content": "\u003cp>Maria Trujillo cleaned buildings for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, she was leading a chant at a rally outside the state Capitol, calling for an end to abusive working conditions and sexual harassment for janitors like herself who have experienced sexual assault on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the beginning, I felt really worthless,\" said Trujillo. \"I felt like I was worth nothing. I felt like as an immigrant woman, I had to take this, and anyone could step all over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez attended the same rally, where she \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-plan-is-emerging-to-fight-the-sexual-abuse-of-janitors-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced that her office is working on a bill\u003c/a> to increase protections for female janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251051351\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said she was moved to tears by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift,\"\u003c/a> a collaboration between Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, KQED, Frontline and Univision, and that it inspired her to improve conditions for women who are subject to abuse while cleaning buildings alone at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's rallies -- which also marked International Women's Day -- came as a \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2016/Race-to-the-Bottom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new study\u003c/a> released by UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> linked subcontracting work to lower wages, fewer benefits, risk of sexual assault and other employment law violations, compared with non-subcontracted workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at janitorial and security service workers in California over a 30-year period to examine the impact of subcontract work on job quality outcomes for more than 200,000 service workers laboring under a subcontract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found that wages within the property services industry have declined or remained stagnant, even as employment in the janitorial and security industry has increased faster than other sectors of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contracted janitors earned 20 percent less than noncontracted janitors, while contracted security officers earned 18 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time we’ve been able to look specifically at this industry and confirm that the trend of low wages and poor work incomes is associated with subcontracting over time,\" said Sara Hinkley, a postdoctoral fellow at the\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Labor Center at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and an author the study. \"We're talking about a significant number of workers that really represent the archetype of subcontracting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also shows that contracted workers are significantly less likely to have health insurance. Thirty-five percent of contracted janitors had health insurance through their employer or union, while 62 percent of noncontracted janitors had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Risk of Sexual Harassment and Assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, researchers repeatedly cited reporting from \"Rape on the Night Shift.\" They found that the property services industry is structured in a way that leaves workers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable\u003c/a> to sexual assault and afraid to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Janitors and security officers tend to work alone at night in empty buildings and are isolated from almost everyone except their immediate supervisor,\" said Helen Chen, co-author of the study and coordinator of public programs at the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program. \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">This isolation is a major risk factor \u003c/a>for sexual harassment, particularly when the harasser is their supervisor, which is a common occurrence in this industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other factors that researchers found increase the risk of sexual harassment include lack of accountability and lack of resources for prevention services on the part of smaller employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers add that a workplace culture that does not support survivors, coupled with a high number of immigrant and undocumented female workers, leaves many in fear of retribution. Thus, many incidents go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to one janitor who was sexually propositioned by her supervisor and harassed for a year,\" said Chen. \"That same supervisor harassed other women in the workplace and was never reprimanded. Employers generally do not have sexual harassment policies in place, and if they do, those policies are inadequate or are not enforced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disproportionately Affecting Immigrants, People of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos make up 37 percent of California's overall workforce, they make up 82 percent of contracted janitors and 41 percent of those who are not contracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oQktQM16n0yp7JDEd8B58VzE3wImXj8R\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of contracted janitors are also immigrants, with 75 percent of them being foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have a situation where contractors use the situation of immigrant status and gender as a means to create an environment of exploitation and harassment,\" said David Huerta, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu-usww.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West\u003c/a>, which represents 45,000 service workers throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security officers are less likely to be immigrants because of the English-language requirements for the job. However, they are more likely to be African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are things we've been talking about for some time now,,\" said Huerta. \"And as we start talking about the issue of racial justice and immigrant justice in this country, more and more we're going to see that this dysfunction within subcontract industries exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Competition, Lower wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking with employers and industry experts, researchers found that the intense competition between contract companies, coupled with the labor-intensive nature of contract work, is what puts wages and working conditions on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because labor cost accounts for the largest percentage of a contractor's cost of doing business, companies often find themselves unable to compete if their prices don't remain competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most room that they have to cut costs is in the group of expenditures associated with hiring workers,\" said Hinkley. \"They're continually competing with companies that are offering lower and lower costs based on being able to reduce the amount of money they spend on labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conducting her research, Hinkley did find that there are employers out there who were genuine about wanting to offer their workers good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These employers want to compete based on offering quality services, innovation and productivity enhancements. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:20 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has confirmed media reports that Professor Geoff Marcy has resigned in the wake of findings that he violated the school’s policy prohibiting sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Dirks called Marcy’s behavior “contemptible and inexcusable” and said his resignation was accepted immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dirks also responded to criticism that the university had essentially let Marcy off with a warning after an investigation found he had groped, kissed and had other uninvited contact with at least four female students since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiterating UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/13/uc-berkeley-defends-handling-of-harassment-case-against-astronomer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier defense\u003c/a> of its handling of the case, he said a formal termination proceeding would have been “lengthy and uncertain” and would have required a higher standard of evidence than the sexual harassment inquiry used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our objective was to protect our students by immediately preventing any re-occurrence of the behavior described in the investigative report,” Dirks wrote. “We thus chose to establish, in writing, a strict set of behavioral standards that went beyond what is specifically proscribed by the University’s rules and regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the complete statement, followed by our more detailed original post on the Marcy case:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This morning Professor Geoff Marcy resigned from the Berkeley faculty. We believe this outcome is entirely appropriate and have immediately accepted his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s reaction to the finding that Professor Geoff Marcy violated the University’s sexual harassment policies has been the subject of understandable criticism and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before describing the disciplinary options that were available to us, we want to state unequivocally that Professor Marcy’s conduct, as determined by the investigation, was contemptible and inexcusable. We also want to express our sympathy to the women who were victimized, and we deeply regret the pain they have suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to understand that as Berkeley’s leadership considered disciplinary options, we did not have the authority, as per University of California policy, to unilaterally impose any disciplinary sanctions, including termination. Discipline of a faculty member is a lengthy and uncertain process. It would include a full hearing where the standards of evidence that would be used are higher than those that are applied by the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) in the course of its investigations. The process would also be subject to a three-year statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our objective was to protect our students by immediately preventing any re-occurrence of the behavior described in the investigative report. We thus chose to establish, in writing, a strict set of behavioral standards that went beyond what is specifically proscribed by the University’s rules and regulations. In addition, the agreement authorized the administration to by-pass the lengthy, uncertain disciplinary process by stripping the professor of a faculty member’s usual due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognize and share the frustration that many have expressed, and we are committed to work with the Office of the President and the Academic Senate to reform the University’s disciplinary processes, criteria and standards so that in the future we have different and better options for discipline of faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also want our campus community to know that we fully support new efforts now underway in a number of departments and colleges to address cultural issues and standards related to sexual harassment. We must do everything in our power to create the conditions necessary for quick and confidential reporting of suspected violations of our rules and standards of conduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Numerous media outlets are reporting that Professor Geoff Marcy, the UC Berkeley astonomer at the center of a sexual harassment scandal, has told the university he will resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BuzzFeed News, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/famous-astronomer-allegedly-sexually-harassed-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the story\u003c/a> on the results of Cal’s investigation into sexual harassment accusations against Marcy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/geoff-marcy-resignation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said it had obtained an email\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Astronomy Department chair stating the professor “has announced his intention to step down as a faculty member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice’s Motherboard site \u003ca href=\"http://motherboard.vice.com/read/berkeley-astronomer-geoff-marcy-will-resign-after-sexually-harassing-students?1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted Basri’s message\u003c/a> as saying in part, “This is to inform our community that Geoff has initiated the process that will lead to his no longer being a faculty member at UC Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcy is the world’s foremost authority in the field of exoplanetary science, the study of the rapidly expanding number of planets being discovered around distant stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10716803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10716803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage-400x711.jpg\" alt=\"A message to members of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department regarding the resignation of Geoff Marcy. \" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage-400x711.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message to members of UC Berkeley’s Astronomy Department regarding the resignation of Geoff Marcy. \u003ccite>(Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marcy was the subject of at least four formal complaints regarding his contact with female students. A six-month campus investigation found that his behavior, which reportedly included uninvited groping, kissing or massaging four women who filed complaints, violated UC Berkeley’s sexual harassment policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s own handling of the case \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/13/uc-berkeley-defends-handling-of-harassment-case-against-astronomer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew widespread criticism\u003c/a>, with some faculty members, students and many in the astronomy community expressing dismay that Marcy had been allowed to continue in his position with what some said amounted to a slap on the wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, 22 members of Berkeley’s astronomy faculty \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/berkeley-astronomy-dept-calls-for-professor-to-leave-in-wake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a letter\u003c/a> calling for Marcy’s resignation or dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday’s announcement, one of the women involved in the sexual harassment case against the professor told BuzzFeed she was relieved at the outcome:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s a relief to know that Geoff Marcy will no longer have access to UC Berkeley students,” Jessica Kirkpatrick, one of the complainants in the sexual harassment investigation, told BuzzFeed News. “I hope the university is using this opportunity to re-evaluate it’s process and policies so that vulnerable students have better protections in place to guard against sexual harassment from faculty moving forward.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/How-Astronomers-Sought-to/233743/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story on the case\u003c/a> in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Thursday describes Marcy as “a charismatic professor who presented himself as sympathetic to the difficulties female students face.” The story notes that from the late 1980s through mid-’90s, the professor served on the American Astronomical Society’s Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story also reports that Marcy has had a long-standing reputation among many in his field for inappropriate behavior. Joan Schmeltz, a University of Memphis scientist who currently heads the society’s Committee on the Status of Women, says she has heard many complaints over the years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As she talked to more and more women, Ms. Schmelz says, she realized that Mr. Marcy had a “play book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard this so many times,” she says, “that I realized it was standard practice for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Marcy, she says, would isolate a female student in his lab or find a way to talk to her privately on the campus, away from others. During the talk, he would make a slightly inappropriate comment, touch or kiss the student, and then apologize, according to what women told her. Depending on the reaction he got, she says, he would either back off or take another step forward. Students, she says, complained that he had given them rides home, taken them out to coffee, and told them he and his wife had an open relationship. The four women who complained, she says, are “just the tip of the iceberg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an open secret in the field for a long time,” she says. “The reason he’s been able to get away with it is that people don’t trust the system to protect them.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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We also want to express our sympathy to the women who were victimized, and we deeply regret the pain they have suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to understand that as Berkeley’s leadership considered disciplinary options, we did not have the authority, as per University of California policy, to unilaterally impose any disciplinary sanctions, including termination. Discipline of a faculty member is a lengthy and uncertain process. It would include a full hearing where the standards of evidence that would be used are higher than those that are applied by the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) in the course of its investigations. The process would also be subject to a three-year statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our objective was to protect our students by immediately preventing any re-occurrence of the behavior described in the investigative report. We thus chose to establish, in writing, a strict set of behavioral standards that went beyond what is specifically proscribed by the University’s rules and regulations. In addition, the agreement authorized the administration to by-pass the lengthy, uncertain disciplinary process by stripping the professor of a faculty member’s usual due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognize and share the frustration that many have expressed, and we are committed to work with the Office of the President and the Academic Senate to reform the University’s disciplinary processes, criteria and standards so that in the future we have different and better options for discipline of faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also want our campus community to know that we fully support new efforts now underway in a number of departments and colleges to address cultural issues and standards related to sexual harassment. We must do everything in our power to create the conditions necessary for quick and confidential reporting of suspected violations of our rules and standards of conduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Numerous media outlets are reporting that Professor Geoff Marcy, the UC Berkeley astonomer at the center of a sexual harassment scandal, has told the university he will resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BuzzFeed News, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/famous-astronomer-allegedly-sexually-harassed-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the story\u003c/a> on the results of Cal’s investigation into sexual harassment accusations against Marcy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/geoff-marcy-resignation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said it had obtained an email\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Astronomy Department chair stating the professor “has announced his intention to step down as a faculty member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice’s Motherboard site \u003ca href=\"http://motherboard.vice.com/read/berkeley-astronomer-geoff-marcy-will-resign-after-sexually-harassing-students?1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted Basri’s message\u003c/a> as saying in part, “This is to inform our community that Geoff has initiated the process that will lead to his no longer being a faculty member at UC Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcy is the world’s foremost authority in the field of exoplanetary science, the study of the rapidly expanding number of planets being discovered around distant stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10716803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10716803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage-400x711.jpg\" alt=\"A message to members of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department regarding the resignation of Geoff Marcy. \" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage-400x711.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ucastromessage.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message to members of UC Berkeley’s Astronomy Department regarding the resignation of Geoff Marcy. \u003ccite>(Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marcy was the subject of at least four formal complaints regarding his contact with female students. A six-month campus investigation found that his behavior, which reportedly included uninvited groping, kissing or massaging four women who filed complaints, violated UC Berkeley’s sexual harassment policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s own handling of the case \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/13/uc-berkeley-defends-handling-of-harassment-case-against-astronomer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew widespread criticism\u003c/a>, with some faculty members, students and many in the astronomy community expressing dismay that Marcy had been allowed to continue in his position with what some said amounted to a slap on the wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, 22 members of Berkeley’s astronomy faculty \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/berkeley-astronomy-dept-calls-for-professor-to-leave-in-wake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a letter\u003c/a> calling for Marcy’s resignation or dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday’s announcement, one of the women involved in the sexual harassment case against the professor told BuzzFeed she was relieved at the outcome:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s a relief to know that Geoff Marcy will no longer have access to UC Berkeley students,” Jessica Kirkpatrick, one of the complainants in the sexual harassment investigation, told BuzzFeed News. “I hope the university is using this opportunity to re-evaluate it’s process and policies so that vulnerable students have better protections in place to guard against sexual harassment from faculty moving forward.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/How-Astronomers-Sought-to/233743/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story on the case\u003c/a> in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Thursday describes Marcy as “a charismatic professor who presented himself as sympathetic to the difficulties female students face.” The story notes that from the late 1980s through mid-’90s, the professor served on the American Astronomical Society’s Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley is defending its handling of sexual harassment complaints against a prominent astronomer amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/berkeley-astronomy-dept-calls-for-professor-to-leave-in-wake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accusations on campus and beyond\u003c/a> that the professor was inadequately disciplined for inappropriate behavior with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has not shared details of the six-month investigation of \u003ca href=\"http://astro.berkeley.edu/faculty-profile/geoff-marcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Geoffrey Marcy\u003c/a> that concluded in June when he was found to have violated campus sex harassment policies. It resulted from complaints brought by former students and dealt with incidents dating as far back as 2001, campus officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the probe and the nature of the complaints were first \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/famous-astronomer-allegedly-sexually-harassed-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by BuzzFeed News\u003c/a> on Friday, UC Berkeley said Marcy had agreed to clear parameters around his behavior with the knowledge he would be subject to automatic suspension or dismissal for any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”T2JPO1MgIAgqoNMtdZ2yM0C1dP7r3yac”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up statement issued Monday, the school described the agreement Marcy reached with Vice Provost for Faculty Janet Broughton as “the most certain and effective option for preventing any inappropriate future conduct” because it bypassed a lengthy disciplinary process that would have required a hearing before a faculty committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university has imposed real consequences on Professor Geoff Marcy by establishing a zero tolerance policy regarding future behavior and by stripping him of the procedural protections that all other faculty members enjoy,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation that one of the world’s leading experts on planets outside Earth’s solar system had not been sanctioned more severely has angered some of Marcy’s colleagues and former students, including one of the four female students who filed complaints about him with the campus Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His job as a professor is to mentor and provide guidance to young people; in that role he’s caused devastating harm,” Sarah Ballard, who earned an undergraduate degree in astronomy from Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/science/astronomer-apologizes-for-behavior.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard, now a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said her former professor talked to her about his sexual experiences as a young man and tried to give her a neck massage one time as she was getting out of his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told the Times she was afraid to confront Marcy or file a complaint because she needed letters of recommendation for graduate school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcy posted \u003ca href=\"http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/MarcyLetter_October7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a public apology\u003c/a> on his website in a letter he sought to have published in the newsletter of the American Astronomical Society’s Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy. The committee declined his request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, Marcy took issue with some of the accusations against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I don’t agree with each complaint that has been made, it’s clear my actions made some women uncomfortable and, for that, I sincerely apologize,” he told The Associated Press in an email Monday. “I have worked hard to change and will continue to focus my efforts on promoting a supportive and respectful environment both in the astronomy community and more broadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Richey, an astrophysicist at NASA who chairs the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy, said in \u003ca href=\"http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2015/10/cswa-chairs-message-to-greater.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog post published Monday\u003c/a> that sexual harassment by senior scientists “is not just isolated to one incident or one person in our field, but to a larger societal issue of the misuse of power” that puts young women at a professional disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The larger issue here is that everyone in our field should be treated as a scientist, with equal respect and dignity,” Richey said. “Women are not lining up at their poster for speed dating; they aren’t signing up to work in your lab because they want to be sexualized or objectified. They are there to become a successful scientist.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The problem bedeviling him was how to create an intense beam of microwave energy to use as a probe. Albert Einstein proposed in 1917 that the right wavelength of light can stimulate an excited atom to emit light of the same wavelength, essentially amplifying it, but Townes was stymied by how to corral a gas of excited atoms without them flying apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His revelatory solution allowed him to separate excited from non-excited molecules and store them in a resonant cavity, so that when a microwave traveled through the gas, the molecules were stimulated to emit microwaves in step with one another: a coherent burst. He and his students built such a device using ammonia gas in 1954 and dubbed it a maser, for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, in 1958, he and his brother-in-law and future Nobelist Arthur Schawlow conceived the idea of doing the same thing with optical light, but using mirrors at the ends of a gas tube to amplify the light to get an “optical maser.” Bell Labs patented the laser, while Townes retained the patent on the maser, which he turned over to a nonprofit. Townes’ appointment as director of research for the U.S. government’s Institute of Defense Analysis in 1959 slowed his efforts to build an optical device, opening the door for Theodore Maiman to demonstrate the first laser – light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation – in 1960.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As t\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/us/charles-h-townes-physicist-who-helped-develop-lasers-dies-at-99.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1&utm_content=buffer5f0f6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">he New York Times says\u003c/a>, the scientific and practical import of Townes' and his colleagues' work is almost impossible to exaggerate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One of the most versatile inventions of the 20th century, the laser amplifies waves of stimulated atoms that shoot out as narrow beams of light, to read CDs and bar codes, guide missiles, cut steel, perform eye surgery, make astronomical measurements and carry out myriad other tasks, from transmitting a thousand books a second over fiber optic lines to entertaining crowds with light shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technological revolution spawned by lasers, laying foundations for much of the gadgetry and scientific knowledge the world now takes for granted, was given enormous momentum by the discoveries of Dr. Townes and — because almost nothing important in science is done in isolation — by the contributions of colleagues and competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, Dr. Townes shared his Nobel with Nikolai G. Basov and Aleksandr M. Prokhorov, of the Lebedev Institute for Physics in Moscow, whom he had never met. It was Dr. Townes and Dr. Arthur L. Schawlow who wrote the 1958 paper “Infrared and Optical Masers,” describing a device to produce laser light, and secured a patent for it. A graduate student, R. Gordon Gould, came up with insights on how to build it, and named it a laser, for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. And it was Dr. Theodore H. Maiman, a physicist with Hughes Aircraft in California, who built the first operational laser in 1960.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Townes was a native of South Carolina whose family, he said, had arrived before the American Revolution. His \u003ca href=\"http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1964/townes-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel laureate's biography\u003c/a> hints at his wide-ranging interests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Charles Hard Townes was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on July 28, 1915, the son of Henry Keith Townes, an attorney, and Ellen (Hard) Townes. He attended the Greenville public schools and then Furman University in Greenville, where he completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages, graduating summa cum laude in 1935, at the age of 19. ... He was also interested in natural history while at Furman, serving as curator of the museum, and working during the summers as collector for Furman's biology camp. In addition, he was busy with other activities, including the swimming team, the college newspaper and the football band.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4918.html\" target=\"_blank\">an oral history interview\u003c/a> with the American Institute of Physics, Townes recalled his experience seeking a physics degree at Furman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was very entranced by physics, partly because of its logic, and because it dealt with the real world. Mathematics was logic enough, but I liked to deal with the real world, and as I saw it, physics really did that, and was a beautiful subject because things could be figured out if you worked at it. Now, that college didn't have very much physics. It graduated maybe about one physics major per year, and my last year, there were no other students than I, and so I just studied the book and worked the problems. 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The problem bedeviling him was how to create an intense beam of microwave energy to use as a probe. Albert Einstein proposed in 1917 that the right wavelength of light can stimulate an excited atom to emit light of the same wavelength, essentially amplifying it, but Townes was stymied by how to corral a gas of excited atoms without them flying apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His revelatory solution allowed him to separate excited from non-excited molecules and store them in a resonant cavity, so that when a microwave traveled through the gas, the molecules were stimulated to emit microwaves in step with one another: a coherent burst. 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