Lawsuit filed in Univ. of Rochester's Jaeger sexual harassment case targets President Seligman
A federal lawsuit filed Friday involving allegations of sexual misconduct and retaliation at the University of Rochester takes direct aim at President Joel Seligman and Provost Robert Clark.
The lawsuit focuses on events within UR's prestigious Brain and Cognitive Sciences department while noting cases elsewhere on campus. But Seligman and Clark are singled out for allegedly creating a permissive environment — through their professional and personal conduct — that tolerated such behavior, the lawsuit claims.
"Our issue is no longer with Jaeger, whose conduct no one at the University is still defending. It’s the institutional problems," said Celeste Kidd, one of the plaintiffs. "The system failed to protect students who lacked the power to protect themselves. Then it came after the people who tried to defend those students and fix the system."
Kidd was among multiple complainants who went to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in late August with concerns that UR had protected noted psycholinguistics professor T. Florian Jaeger and retaliated against his accusers.
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