Saturday, October 04, 2008

Yale settles sexual harassment suit

Somehow we missed this story about an alleged incident of sexual harassment at the Yale School of Drama. A female student was dismissed from the school in 2005 and subsequently filed a lawsuit citing retaliation after she reported sexual harassment in the context of an acting workshop in which the instructor asked students to simulate masturbation as part of a class exercise.
Yale settled for $10,000, the cost of the student's legal fees, and admitted no wrongdoing.
More details on the incident and the lawsuit can be found here.

Department of Energy is making Title IX rules?

 In one of the more curious things I have seen in regard to Title IX rule-making, the Department of Energy is attempting to issue a change t...