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Harvard investigates 'trauma' among students after law professor agrees to represent Harvey Weinstein |
2019-03-22 |
[OUTLINE] Harvard University has launched an investigation into law professor Ronald Sullivan after he agreed to represent Harvey Weinstein in court. Mr Sullivan, the university’s first African American faculty dean, joined Mr Weinstein’s legal team in January, ahead of the June trial for rape. Mr Weinstein himself was spotted on Wednesday meeting a private investigator, Herman Weisberg, who he has hired to assist in his case. The two men met at a Cipriani Dolci restaurant in Grand Central station, with Mr Weinstein attempting to disguise his appearance with a black baseball cap and dark glasses. Mr Sullivan, on joining Mr Weinstein’s team, felt the backlash almost immediately, as his students began complaining that his decision to represent the disgraced film producer traumatised them, and put them at risk. A student, studying visual and environmental studies, started an online petition to remove Mr Sullivan from his position as faculty dean of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential houses. The petition said his choice of client was "deeply trauma-inducing," and showed that Mr Sullivan doesn’t "value the safety of students". No students have signed so far. The house was covered in #MeToo graffiti slogans, such as "your silence is violence", and the Association of Black Harvard Women complained that Mr Sullivan had "failed" female African-Americans at Harvard and had compromised his ability to support "survivors . . . as they deal with their trauma." On January 25 Mr Sullivan wrote to the students at Winthrop House, where he is dean, explaining his decision to defend the reviled 67-year-old. |
Posted by:Fred |
#12 Now that the Muller report doesn't indict Trump will they all suicide? |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-03-22 19:01 |
#11 Remember when someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk and everyone got so traumatized and needed deep counseling? Yup - those type of students. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-03-22 18:22 |
#10 compromised his ability to support "survivors . . . as they deal with their trauma. Seriously, you think his job is to hold your little girl hands until you don't have hurt feelz? |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-22 17:24 |
#9 What the school needs to do is hand anyone making a complaint like that a drop form. "But this says I'm leaving the school..." "That's right, you're just too special to withstand that horrible thing called life. Here's Dr. Korvokian's phone number." |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-03-22 17:12 |
#8 Harvard: Letting the black man know his place for nearly 400 years. |
Posted by: Ulolutch Omeamp6391 2019-03-22 16:30 |
#7 "To Kill a Mocking Bird" is now banned in some schools. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2019-03-22 15:39 |
#6 remember when the story of an attorney taking on an unpopular case was an American Classic OJ trial. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-22 13:04 |
#5 To Kill a Mockingbird anyone? Made quite an impression on me as a kid. Of course, that was back when American values weren't considered un-American. |
Posted by: SteveS 2019-03-22 12:33 |
#4 Gee, remember when the story of an attorney taking on an unpopular case was an American Classic? To Kill a Mockingbird anyone? |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-22 09:22 |
#3 Look I think HW is dodgy as anything but I think it's even more important they get a fair trial. Normal students should say they get trauma from the green-fascists commitment to gulag-like trial without the right to defence. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-22 08:49 |
#2 A student, studying visual and environmental studies "you want fries with that? Make it a combo?" |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-22 07:06 |
#1 Suspend those claiming to be "traumatized" with a statement they can return after they've matured enough to attend university. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-03-22 06:54 |