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   From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com   
      
   Avital Ronell banned from teaching for a year following 11-month   
   investigation   
      
   A revered philosophy professor who teaches feminism has been   
   suspended by New York University (NYU) over allegations she   
   sexually harassed one of her male students.   
      
   Avital Ronell, lauded as “one of the most original, bold and   
   surprising” thinkers in modern academia, has been banned from   
   teaching for a year following an 11-month investigation.   
      
   Her former student, 34-year-old Nimrod Reitman, accused Ms   
   Ronell, 66, of physical and verbal harassment during his time at   
   the university.   
      
   Mr Reitman, who is now a visiting fellow at Harvard, claimed Ms   
   Ronell repeatedly kissed and touched him, slept in his bed with   
   him, demanded he sleep in hers, messaged and called him   
   constantly, and refused to work with him if he failed to   
   reciprocate.   
      
   According to The New York Times, who saw excerpts of an NYU   
   report into the case, Ms Ronell sent emails to her student in   
   which she called him “my most adored one”, “sweet cuddly Baby”,   
   and “cock-er spaniel”.   
      
   Ms Ronell, who is a lesbian, told the newspaper her behaviour   
   towards Mr Reitman, now a married gay man, did not constitute   
   harassment.   
      
   Students at the University of Bristol raise £1,500 for cleaner   
   so he can go to Jamaica with his wife   
   “Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted   
   sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a   
   queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a   
   penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our   
   common academic backgrounds and sensibilities.   
      
   “These communications were repeatedly invited, responded to and   
   encouraged by him over a period of three years.”   
      
   Despite being cleared of sexual assault, stalking and   
   retaliation, the university upheld the complaint against Ms   
   Ronell of sexual harassment.   
      
   The decision by NYU has sparked a complaint from a group of   
   international academics, who published an open letter accusing   
   Mr Reitman of waging a “malicious campaign” against the   
   professor.   
      
   “We testify to the grace, the keen wit, and the intellectual   
   commitment of Professor Ronell and ask that she be accorded the   
   dignity rightly deserved by someone of her international   
   standing and reputation,” they wrote.   
      
   Fuck this bitch.  Fire her ass.   
      
   Any heterosexual would already be fired.   
      
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/feminism-   
   philosophy-professor-suspended-sexual-harassment-avital-ronell-   
   new-york-university-a8492786.html   
         
      
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