{"id":37662,"date":"2017-01-30T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=37662"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:48:00","slug":"singing-california-girls-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/singing-california-girls-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing \u201cCalifornia Girls\u201d = Sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kangaroo-Courts-620x436\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Having been part of, and victimized by, the kangaroo campus court<\/a> system, I nevertheless am perpetually amazed at just how bizarrely it runs, from how piffling the \u201ccrimes\u201d are that merit convictions, to how far reaching the penalties can be.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest to the kangaroo court system are sex related cases. Before moving on, I suppose I should explain my own history of sexual harassment, as I was accused one time (I was cleared of the charges, however):<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cYou look quite made up today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

–a student walked into class late, making a\u00a0 bit of a show of it. She was wearing quite a bit of makeup. Yes, I was investigated for sexual harassment based on this one comment. Admin could have destroyed me over this, but at the time I was playing ball, and so received a pass.<\/em><\/p>\n

The latest insanity comes from the University of Kentucky. Like many institutions, the school is on a something of a witch hunt when it comes to sexual harassment:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026university looked into 57 sexual harassment and discrimination complaints about employees from 2011 to 2016, finding enough evidence to recommend firing the employee about 40\u00a0percent of the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A charge of sexual harassment is a great way for admin (who runs the entire kangaroo system) to get rid of faculty they don\u2019t like (i.e., faculty with any integrity).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at what a recent case:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026<\/em>professor at the University of Kentucky says he was found guilty of and punished for sexual harassment related, in part, to singing the band\u2019s song \u201cCalifornia Girls\u201d at an overseas event<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m sure the charges were piled on here, but I want to focus on this one. The man was literally thousands of miles away from campus, singing a song in China, at a public event, a song which is played on the radio regularly.<\/p>\n

Ok, it wasn\u2019t an identical song, as he changed some of the words to reflect China (using Chinese locations instead of states, for example), but that\u2019s beside the point. The kangaroo court\u2019s ruling on this issue would be enough to nullify any other rulings the court ever made, in a sane world:<\/p>\n

\u201cruled that the song \u2018California Girls\u2019 included \u2018language of a sexual nature\u2019 and was somehow offensive, though no victims were identified.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It really is nuts working in higher education. Things you say off campus, things said every day on the radio, can be enough to get you fired, even if nobody complains about it, or even makes the slightest claim of being harmed by what you said.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder why most faculty just keep their heads down and, if they dare to comment at all about the madness of higher education, they do so anonymously?<\/p>\n

Part of what makes the kangaroo system so foul is the defendants generally have no idea of the machinations being wielded against them:<\/p>\n

Ryan said the university\u2019s three-month investigation of his case revealed no student complaints, and that he\u2019s never faced a complaint of a sexual nature from a student in 30 years of teaching. When he sent an email to administrators asking to know the exact complaints against him, he said, \u201cMy message was turned into an open-records request by UK\u2019s legal office. A few days later I received a two-page letter denying my request.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine: a 30 year career besmirched, if not outright ruined, based on singing a Top 40 hit in a different country\u2026that nobody complained about. Yes, there could be more to it, but this kangaroo system doesn\u2019t provide for the victim knowing the exact nature of the charges.<\/p>\n

I know our public system of justice has issues, but I assure the gentle reader it is superior in every way to the campus court system.<\/p>\n

Having been found guilty, punishment was meted out:<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite not knowing the exact charges against him, Buck said he was, as punishment, banned from receiving international travel funds and stripped of a teaching award worth thousands of dollars. When he asked about due process, the provost allegedly said that because there is no constitutional right to represent Kentucky abroad or teach a particular class, the university didn\u2019t owe him any.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I encourage the gentle reader to consider the above paragraph: the man is convicted on charges, some flimsy, some secret, and punished based on those convictions. When asked about \u201cdue process,\u201d admin basically laughs in his face.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Again, I saw the like a few times when I was at a skeezy community college, but I understand the gentle reader has little reason to believe a simple blogger such as myself. Thus, I feel compelled to list documented cases of sleaziness that were little different from what I\u2019ve seen with my own eyes, many times. Across the country, this sort of thing goes on regularly. Most faculty are too disenfranchised, too impoverished, to do anything about it. In my years of higher education, I\u2019ve been told about the site I\u2019m getting this information from exactly one time, privately, by another faculty member.<\/p>\n

I guess I should mention the University\u2019s side to this:<\/p>\n

\u201c..Blanton said that faculty members shared \u201cdeep concerns\u201d about Ryan\u2019s conduct and both Jilin and Shanghai Universities also had complained about him. \u201cOur Title IX office investigated the complaints at length and interviewed Ryan as part of the investigation, as well as the faculty who accompanied him,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe faculty were unanimous in their complaints and their concerns, in which a preponderance of evidence concluded that he engaged in \u2018inappropriate touching\u2019 and \u2018language of a sexual nature.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Wonderful! It should be a simple matter to get those complaints from the other universities. None have been provided, of course.<\/p>\n

I love the \u201cunanimous\u201d complaints here. I had such a charge leveled at me, only to have several of the \u201cunanimous\u201d committee members tell me, off the record, that they disagreed with the ruling. Trust me, the university isn\u2019t particularly special in its confusion about what the word \u201cunanimous\u201d means.<\/p>\n

Now, when I\u2019ve covered these cases before, the administration is always perfectly confident they are in the right. The professor can try to get recourse in the system, but it\u2019s not going to work there because admin holds all the cards in the kangaroo system. They are judge, jury, executioner, and they do it all in secret without the professor even knowing a trial regarding his future ever happened.<\/p>\n

So, my advice to the professor is simple: waste no further time trying to get justice in the campus kangaroo court system. Take them to \u201creal\u201d court. It\u2019s worked well before<\/a>. Honest, that\u2019s the way to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or keep asking admin for due process and continue to have them laugh in your face.<\/p>\n

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