Roxana Kopetman of SoCal News Group wrote, “At UC Irvine, one employee left sex toys in another employee’s work area. He was fired. At UC Riverside, a supervisor repeatedly stuck his face into a co-worker’s neck to smell her perfume. He was suspended for two days. At UCLA, a married French professor professed his love to a graduate student and wrote her hundreds of poems. He resigned, but was granted emeritus status on condition he not teach again.”
“These and other reports of sexual harassment at four University of California schools in the Los Angeles and San Diego region were included among 113 cases released this month by the University of California system. Overall, the documents cover a three-year period, from Jan. 1, 2013 to April 6, 2016, in which employees in the 10-campus system were found to have violated the system’s sexual violence and sexual harassment policies for that period.”
This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg, there are dozens of cases that have gone unreported by the Universities for various reasons, including the incident allegedly happened off campus, to an individual un-affiliated with the University, or the University turned a blind eye. For example, the case of UC Irvine’s UCI Foundation trustee Bruce Cahill. Mr. Cahill currently serves as a UCIF Government Relations & Advocacy Committee Member and as a UCIF Nomination & Board Development Committee. Mr. Cahill faces various claims of fraud, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Some of the interactions have been described as numerous occasions of both unwanted and forceful/sexually suggestive contact; derogatory language targeting female colleagues; diminutive language such as “If it fucks, flies, or floats: rent it”, a derogatory reference to women as commodities; the placement of lewd and sexually explicit products with the intent of colleagues to find; and most disturbing, comments about his own daughter, and the “hot little friends” she would bring to Villa di Sogni (Mr. Cahill’s Laguna Beach Mansion). Allegedly, Mr. Cahill made it known that he enjoyed it when his daughter brought her young friends to his home.
Bruce Cahill is still active with the University and the UCI Foundation, his profile can be found here, http://www.ucifoundation.org/trustees/index.html.
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