was recommended by the president and the provost after an investigation established that Dr。 Verdu violated the University’s policy prohibiting Consensual Relations with Students, and its policy requiring Honesty and Cooperation in University Matters
2017年6月9日,普林斯顿调查认定Verdú性骚扰属实,但仅给予其8小时行为规范培训的纪律处分。普林斯顿Dean of Faculty Deborah Prentice就此向Im 作了解释:
when you indicated to him that he was behaving inappropriately he stopped and took no further action, so under those circumstances, and given that we were treating it as a first-time offense, it doesn’t warrant his termination
I’m one of the former students they are referring to。 This is a total lie。。。 “Coincidentally”, Paul Cuff has been spreading rumors everywhere that his tenure was declined due to Verdu。
It is frustrating for me to feel like my work, as well as the work of other intelligent and dedicated female scientists, has been reduced to collateral damage of a former assistant professor‘s unsuccessful tenure case。
Prof Verdu has been considered a valuable and supporting mentor and friend for/by some women, including Dr Shkel and myself。
但她更注意到不少女同行面对Verdú非正统行为,不得不小心翼翼:
As a result, the number of women information theorists that chose to stay away from him or had to “artfully” work around his off-color remarks and boundary issue is not zero。
My understanding is that Sergio has not denied that the reported events took place, but rather the validity of the interpretation of those events。 To me this suggests that perhaps the training ordered by theTitle IX proceedings is not inappropriate。