"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....
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Since 9/11 I’m really sick of so many things being dumbed down. “Terrorism” is 1 of those things.
What is “terrorism”, e.g.?
Terrorism is not simply killing someone, or assailing someone, or doing either in a mass manner.
Terrorism is creating general terror (i.e., concern that anyone may be next, almost like a warning) through killings (much more than mere assaults) based on a belief in the name of that belief and in direct support of some organized grouping.
Guys like Columbine and the movie theater and Newtown don’t count as “terrorists” because they did it for themselves, not to support some greater organized group, like ISIS. They are merely mass murderers.
If he’s counting MM, then yeah, lots of white guys involved IN AMERICA (try expanding that to world-wide). Take out the MMs and you don’t have much terror in America to start, much less “white guys” as perps.