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Caltech suspends professor for harassment

"For what is believed to be the first time in its history, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena has suspended a faculty member for gender-based harassment. The researcher has been stripped of his university salary and barred from campus for 1 year, is undergoing personalized coaching to become a better mentor, and will need to prove that he has been rehabilitated before he can resume advising students without supervision. Caltech has not curtailed his research activities.

The university has not disclosed the name of the faculty member, but Science has learned that it is Christian Ott, a professor of theoretical astrophysics who studies gravitational waves and other signals from some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Born and educated in Germany, Ott joined the Caltech faculty in 2009 and was awarded tenure in early 2014.

According to Ott's website, as of last week he was advising five graduate students. He is the principal investigator on two active grants from the National Science Foundation, including a prestigious, 5-year CAREER award for promising young investigators. Part of that award helps support a summer workshop for dozens of graduate students in astrophysics from around the world.

The case comes to light as harassment has become a major flashpoint within the astronomy community in the wake of an investigation by the University of California, Berkeley, that found astronomer Geoffrey Marcy had committed serial harassment over a decade (Science, 23 October 2015, p. 364). The university faced a storm of criticism after giving Marcy little more than a warning; he ultimately resigned. Caltech took a different approach, says Fiona Harrison, head of Caltech's physics, mathematics, and astronomy division. "I think that Caltech was extremely responsive and proactive and did the right thing," she asserts....

1 posted on 01/13/2016 12:00:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Already settled science no doubt. /s


2 posted on 01/13/2016 12:06:32 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Once elected who can make the best deals with Congress?)
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I sat and watched the video of the professor twice. I have to admit...the guy has some kind of mental issue...probably in need of meds.

The problem is that you get a joker like this in some college....then you hire a couple more, and in a decade....half the college is either mental-midgets or agenda-lecturers. You as the father of some kid....have to sit there and question the $20,000 a year for tuition and cost, and there’s little to nothing to gained from a semester with this joker.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 12:06:42 AM PST by pepsionice
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Reminds me of Hillary’s bullcrap to the Black and Brown group (they called themselves something like that). She was talking about the culture of violence from the OKC bombing to the 9/11 attacks and then wrapped it up by saying we needed tougher gun laws and background checks for firearms. Guns were not used in either of those massive attacks on US soil.


5 posted on 01/13/2016 12:11:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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The very academies training our military elite have long since been infiltrated in the same way. The wife of a high level career naval officer who was sitting next to me on a long flight about 10 to 15 years ago was literally crying at the fact that the Navy had introduced “Ain’t Islam Great” required brainwashing, totally false (but politically correct) information courses for new officers and “remedial” courses for existing top echelon officers.

Special events with this subject content had also started for the wives, when the occasions presented themselves. She had just attended such a conference session a few days before and was shaken at the clearly blatant and false propaganda, whose only purpose was to confuse and pacify military decision makers. Multi-culti military curriculum. Muslim adjuncts, it seems, were hired.

I had not heard of C.A.I.R. at the time, but clearly they or a similar group got he ball rolling. This was the period when the slow, but steady infiltration and onsite propaganda in all of secondary education began to accelerate.

In the military, as elsewhere “multi-culti” was a cute name to get the foot in the door, with government blessing/prompting, and lull the current and future top brass into accepting a number of things that should have remained unacceptable for a successful military.


9 posted on 01/13/2016 12:29:20 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Really? The half-frikken (marxist/mohammedan) American and the white woman Hillaryous Rotten Criminal are directly responsible for the ME/European crisis/invasion. They must be the 10%.


11 posted on 01/13/2016 12:34:56 AM PST by PGalt
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Public College Professor: Terrorists Are 90% White Christian Conservatives

Yeah, but that's because of Climate Change. So we need to reach out, use smart politics, and try understand why they hate us so much. /sarc
14 posted on 01/13/2016 12:48:56 AM PST by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Prepare for some serious 2016 house cleaning. Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump 2016!")
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I hope someone goes and proves the professor he is right , in certain cases


19 posted on 01/13/2016 1:11:05 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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9-11 attackers.

San Bernardino murderers.

Paris attackers.

Charlie Hebdo attackers.

"The Face of Terror" - Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, self-identified agnostic, "science is my religion".

Perhaps the professor is not a math person, but McVeigh does not seem to represent 90% of terrorists. In fact, the percentage who are Christian seems, since the IRA disappeared, to be roughly zero.

21 posted on 01/13/2016 1:46:41 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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“...lecturing his “Introduction to Psychology...”

Well! There you go. A crazy professor teaching Psychology. He needs to record his questions, lay down on a couch, turn the recorder on and play his own questions to himself while recording his own answers...which will become the next set of questions asked.

Repeat, repeat, repeat until the proper responses are spewed from his mouth like the verbal vomit it really is.


26 posted on 01/13/2016 3:47:34 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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Another commie lib, Caucasian hater. Nothing new.


27 posted on 01/13/2016 4:08:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Being an American isn't a piece of paper from the State Department. It's an attitude.)
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Have Professor Loose Nuts say it louder. Frankly speaking I don’t do conservative outrage anymore, but there will be the day when people like him get that club upside their head.


28 posted on 01/13/2016 4:08:51 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Most white terrorists and shooters in the US are more politically aligned with the good professor...

From February 2010...

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"The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville [Amy Bishop] was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe.

The report broke the day after it was learned that Bishop fatally shot her brother in Braintree in 1986. ..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20100331071513/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/ala_slay_suspec.html
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"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."--Boston Herald, February 15, 2010

'Oddball' portrait of Amy Bishop emerges:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110113013258/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0

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IRS plane crasher Joe Stack sums up his 'manifesto' with this: a popular Karl Marx quote and a stab at Capitalism...

"The communist creed:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed:
From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed."

-Joe Stack (1956-2010)

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Full text of manifesto here: (CNN PDF file)

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From SFGate.com:

Unabomber essay urges attacks on 'techno-industrial system'
July 27, 2002 | By Dan Eggen, Dominic Gates, Washington Post

In an article published this spring by Green Anarchy, a radical environmental newsletter, [unabomber Ted] Kaczynski calls on revolutionaries to "eliminate the entire techno-industrial system" by "hitting where it hurts" and disparages the activities of most radicals as "pointless." ..."

"The fall 2001 issue of Green Anarchy published a letter from Kaczynski complaining that Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico, was insufficiently pure as a revolutionary because he advocates bringing water and electricity to peasants...."

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Unabomber-essay-urges-attacks-on-2790964.php
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From anarchist-org.forum:

"The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (El Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) is an anarcho communist army that is based in Mexico, mainly the poorest state in Mexico, Chiapas. In 1994, January 1st, they started their revolution and it has been increasingly successful throughout the years. Today, they are attempting non-violent struggles because the people told them too - they are truly an army of the people. However, both the people and their army are realizing how unsuccessful that tactic is.

Their ideology, Zapatismo, is a mixture of indigenous teachings, autonomism, anarchism and communism. Although other revolutions are going on in the world (like the Southern African anarcho communist movement), the Zapatista revolution was deemed the first modern revolution of our time and it's bringing hope to people not only in Mexico, but around the world."

http://anarchist-org.forum-gratuiti.net/t206-zapatista-anarcho-communist-revolution

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Re: the Congresswoman Giffords shooting in Arizona. Recall they tried to say he was a right-winger

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From the Wall Street Journal
NOVEMBER 24, 2007

[Lee Harvey] Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.

Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.

Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."

The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586848318702756.html

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Bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple in Jonestown ...

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"In 1951, [Reverend Jim] Jones (Jonestown) began attending communist meetings and rallies in Indianapolis.[4] Jones became flustered at harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings,[4] particularly, regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson.[5] This, among other things, provoked a seminal moment for Jones where he asked himself "how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."[5][4]"

"In the summer of 1977, Jones and most of the 900 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after media pressure built.[25] Jones left the same night that an editor at New West magazine read Jones an article by Marshall Kilduff to be published detailing allegations by former Temple members.[25][16] Jones named the settlement Jonestown after himself.

Jones purported to establish Jonestown as a benevolent model communist community stating, 'I believe we’re the purest communists there are.' [26] Jones' wife, Marceline, described Jonestown as "dedicated to live for socialism, total economic and racial and social equality. We are here living communally."[26] Jones wanted to construct a model community to show others and stated that Prime Minister of Guyana Forbes Burnham 'couldn’t rave enough about us, uh, the wonderful things we do, the project, the model of socialism.'[27] In that regard, like the restrictive emigration policies of the then Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and other communist republics, Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown.[28]

Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid) along with a sedative.[39]

One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape.[39] When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity."[39] Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die" and, regarding death as "just stepping over into another plane" and that "[death is] a friend."[39] At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."[39] Children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together. The mass suicide had been discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis, while members drank liquid Jones first told them was poison during at least one of those White Nights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones#Construction_of_the_Peoples_Temple

30 posted on 01/13/2016 4:19:59 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/Capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09>
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"[Bill] Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive - 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://web.archive.org/web/20090131022531/http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."

"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html

31 posted on 01/13/2016 4:22:31 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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Can’t fix stupid - helps explain why so many college students graduate dumber than when they went it...


33 posted on 01/13/2016 4:29:51 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Later on, in response to a student's question, Avila says the Sept. 11 attacks were "basically the only act of foreign-born terrorism that's ever happened in the United States."

Guess the creep was asleep when the car bombs went off in the WTC parking garage the first time the Moslems tried to bring them down.

34 posted on 01/13/2016 4:32:05 AM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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What is gender-based harassment? When you tell a man to be a man?


36 posted on 01/13/2016 5:09:34 AM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftists s the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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It’s the progressives new meme, radical islamists are now conservative muslems. And Arabs are now white.

Just in time for the election.


37 posted on 01/13/2016 5:16:37 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Public College Professor: Terrorists Are 90% White Christian Conservatives

And the other 98% are radical Islamic terrorists. Common Core math strikes again.

38 posted on 01/13/2016 5:18:18 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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When you define terrorism as actions of white Christian men then you can see a lot of terrorism committed by White Christian men.


41 posted on 01/13/2016 5:52:11 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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Someone just needs to sue this person. It is easily proven slander. If it is a white guy they are almost all liberal and crazy.


44 posted on 01/13/2016 6:30:48 AM PST by Lady Heron
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