You're claim that my article "flat out accuses someone of something" is a misrepresentation. There is no such "someone" in the above post on NowPublic. You may have seen male professors who were alleged members of the sexual harassment ring named elsewhere on the internet but not on NowPublic.
Your claim that I am accusing this someone "without any sort of proof" is also not accurate -- and NowPublic editors know that. There are records in this case, including correspondence with SFU and Emily Carr College of Art and Design. I have the names of several women who were sexually harassed or had sex with professors, and two men who were closely linked to women who had sex with professors and have spoken about it. These people, some of whom have never spoken to one another, have provided details about the sexual harassment which lend credibility to their stories. The woman who dropped out over the sexual harassment is willing to take a polygraph, although she recognizes it would not be admissible in court.
Not all of the sex with students at the Center was a secret. One professor accompanied a Dance student with whom he was in a sexual relationship to her dance performance at SFU. (His wife, incidentally, accompanied him to the Center dance held at the downtown studio.) The art scene was small and incestuous with students and professional artists socializing with one another. People knew one another's business.
And Rob, please don't attribute motives to me. I am not, as you claim, repeating the same story to gain attention. If at nowpublic one hand knew what the other hand was doing, you would know why the stories on the SFU sexual harassment scandal on this site seem blandly similar. A staff person at nowpublic deleted extensive new information posted on this case without even having the professionalism to ask me about my sources. Then he sent me one of your 'canned' comments saying something like, "Hi, Hope you are well...." and keep posting! [It was this sort of unprofessionalism that resulted in two of the best contributors from the Downtown Eastside to quit nowpublic. Both felt disrespected.]
I am not going to 'out' the women who were sexually harassed or who had sex with professors, or the males who have spoken about what happened to in one case a friend and in another case a sister.
I would encourage you, Rob, to model on the professionalism of seasoned journalist Mark Schneider, who has apparently left NowPublic. When Schneider had concerns about a story I wrote last year, he contacted me privately to get a sense of how strong my sources were. He chose to continue to run the story. He took into consideration not only the strength of my sources but the fact that I had not named anybody.
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at 00:20 on April 17th, 2008
Rob,
You're claim that my article "flat out accuses someone of something" is a misrepresentation. There is no such "someone" in the above post on NowPublic. You may have seen male professors who were alleged members of the sexual harassment ring named elsewhere on the internet but not on NowPublic.
Your claim that I am accusing this someone "without any sort of proof" is also not accurate -- and NowPublic editors know that. There are records in this case, including correspondence with SFU and Emily Carr College of Art and Design. I have the names of several women who were sexually harassed or had sex with professors, and two men who were closely linked to women who had sex with professors and have spoken about it. These people, some of whom have never spoken to one another, have provided details about the sexual harassment which lend credibility to their stories. The woman who dropped out over the sexual harassment is willing to take a polygraph, although she recognizes it would not be admissible in court.
Not all of the sex with students at the Center was a secret. One professor accompanied a Dance student with whom he was in a sexual relationship to her dance performance at SFU. (His wife, incidentally, accompanied him to the Center dance held at the downtown studio.) The art scene was small and incestuous with students and professional artists socializing with one another. People knew one another's business.
And Rob, please don't attribute motives to me. I am not, as you claim, repeating the same story to gain attention. If at nowpublic one hand knew what the other hand was doing, you would know why the stories on the SFU sexual harassment scandal on this site seem blandly similar. A staff person at nowpublic deleted extensive new information posted on this case without even having the professionalism to ask me about my sources. Then he sent me one of your 'canned' comments saying something like, "Hi, Hope you are well...." and keep posting! [It was this sort of unprofessionalism that resulted in two of the best contributors from the Downtown Eastside to quit nowpublic. Both felt disrespected.]
I am not going to 'out' the women who were sexually harassed or who had sex with professors, or the males who have spoken about what happened to in one case a friend and in another case a sister.
I would encourage you, Rob, to model on the professionalism of seasoned journalist Mark Schneider, who has apparently left NowPublic. When Schneider had concerns about a story I wrote last year, he contacted me privately to get a sense of how strong my sources were. He chose to continue to run the story. He took into consideration not only the strength of my sources but the fact that I had not named anybody.