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  • Katie LimHello_KayT
    Oct 6, 2024, 4:04 AM

    @lazowska @irene
    Oh nice to see you here too as well as on Facebook. Seems your work is amounting to defending the university rather than fixing the problem?

    Please stop minimizing our experiences. Leadership may be striving to make us feel supported, but they are failing. Irene is one of the few people who has supported us unconditionally. You have never engaged with us nor heard our experiences, so why are you giving your assessment of a situation you know so little of?

    You're right that the campus entities control the process, timeline, external communication, and the ultimate response. As someone else in this thread shared, universities often mishandle these situations. They do not care about us; they simply care about not being sued

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  • sunejasuneja
    Oct 6, 2024, 4:17 AM

    @lazowska @irene As a student involved in this, there are a lot of things I would like to say to you but cannot because the university has repeatedly asked us to not talk about this. This is also true of the other women involved. I would just like to acknowledge that the women have read and understood what you think of the situation.

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  • Irene Zhangirene
    Oct 6, 2024, 9:50 PM

    @lazowska one of the women went to a friend’s party and received a report from a random CSE woman grad student at the party that she had been sexually harassed by one of the men from the systems lab for *months*. And this was just a typical Thursday night, so you KNOW there are more women in the department that are not speaking up. If that isn’t dire and pervasive, I don’t know what to call it.

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  • Irene Zhangirene
    Oct 6, 2024, 9:53 PM

    @lazowska There are also two additional men in the systems lab that sexually harassed a woman for a whole year, and it was so bad that she quit. But she won’t name those men because she’s scared. Again, just within the systems lab, there are FIVE active sexual harassers, I don’t even want to think about what is going on in the rest of the department.

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  • Vaastav Anandvaas
    Oct 6, 2024, 11:26 PM

    @lazowska @irene
    Ed, since you have posted this response across at least two different social media platforms (including creating an account on Mastodon to just post this specific response), could you please tell us exactly how this response helps in resolving the situation? All it seems to do is try to paint the university in a better light. If making the university look good and be a good environment is the goal, I'd suggest putting the same energy into working to ensure that the university resolves these situations promptly instead of talking about how the univeristy will deal with the situations.
    Talk is cheap, work is hard. Be a worker, not a talker.

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  • James Coreyjaymcor@mastodon.acm.org
    Oct 6, 2024, 11:46 PM

    @vaas @lazowska @irene Uh, Irene is not new on Mastodon, obviously. So, FU Vaastav if that really is your name. I'll just go ahead and block you now, since you seemed to have no valid contribution. Seen your type before--on the wrong side but using deception rather than honesty for influence. You should be more like Irene.

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