CU-Boulder moves to fire professor accused of retaliating against sexual assault victim ( Colorado)

The University of Colorado is moving to fire a tenured faculty member after the Boulder campus paid $825,000 this week to settle a graduate student's allegations that the philosophy professor retaliated against her for reporting she was sexually assaulted by a fellow student.

Chancellor Phil DiStefano recently issued a notice of intent to dismiss associate professor David Barnett, campus spokesman Ryan Huff confirmed to the Daily Camera.

If fired, Barnett would be only the fourth tenured professor ever dismissed by the university in its 138-year history.

Barnett is accused of compiling a 38-page report painting the victim as "sexually promiscuous" and alleging she falsified the report of the assault, according to a notice of intent to sue CU filed by the victim last month.

The move to fire Barnett, who has taught in the philosophy department since 2005, comes as CU already was under federal investigation for possible violations of Title IX, the federal gender-equity law. It also comes six months after a scathing report detailed sexual harassment, bullying and other unprofessional conduct within the philosophy department.

The victim, who declined to speak with the Camera, filed the complaint because Barnett "smeared her reputation" and she wanted to prevent something similar from happening to future victims who report sexual misconduct, her attorney, Debra Katz, said.

"She felt it was very important to bring that issue to the attention of the appropriate parties within the university and not only protect her own rights, but to ensure that other people who come forward and report serious Title IX violations are not retaliated against," Katz said.

Katz said that if the university tolerated retaliation, it would have a "chilling effect" on anyone wishing to come forward to report a violation.

I am surprised to see so many Freepers attack the professor.

The article points out that the 38-page report done by the professor was about how the Office of Discrimination and Harassment’s investigation mischaracterized or excluded information from witnesses. This is a legitimate beef for any professor – particularly a male professor in a den of liberal and feminist lunacy!

The report included sworn statements by nearly all of the third-party witnesses cited in the Office of Discrimination and Harassment investigation.

It was the sworn statements of others that characterized the female student in a way that she did not want on record. These are witness statements — not the professor’s statements. And, that is not retaliation.

This was a report on how the administration manipulated everything to get a guilty verdict. Which, with such serious allegations, should have been in a criminal court with due process, not held via administrative hearings by liberal administrators. The police investigated and found no crime.

The liberal war is designed to divide us all by sex, race, religion and ideology. This is why Obama and his ilk are threatening every university to increase this sort of administrative extrajudicial prosecution and lower standards of evidence and protections for the falsely accused.

Lastly, Philosophy is not a liberal science, as logic is a philosophy — which is certainly not embraced by liberals.
I have no idea if this professor is liberal or not. But, he did object to a kangaroo proceeding that lynched a man who was never even charged with a crime and cost the university money that could have otherwise been spent on better things.

My hat is off to anyone who challenges such dangerous university practices.

Not unsurprising, he will now be fired for doing so.

Liberals win all the way across the board.

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