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Famous Berkeley Astronomer Violated Sexual Harassment Policies Over Many Years, University Investigation Finds (buzzfeed.com)

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[–]GALACTICA-Actual 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyone with half a brain knows Marcy's an asshole who likes to think of himself as Axl Rose with a telescope.

And yet one more time we have a University putting its bank balance ahead of human beings. This level of persistent behavior should have gotten Marcy fired. Instead, they won't do shit, he'll wind-up feeling even more bulletproof, will lay low for a year, then go back to business as usual.

[–]astro_throwaway1[S] 25ポイント26ポイント  (6子コメント)

I know this is not the typical pretty-picture, ooh-ahh content of this sub, but I feel the astronomy community should be made aware of what one of their own has been up to for the last decade. I think it is disgusting that his penchant for taking advantage of undergraduates is so well-known that the undergrads themselves have now taken to warning one another about him, and still the best that the university can muster is a finger-wagging, "don't do it again or there will be trouble now, you hear?"

Sorry if this kind of post is not allowed; however, I think it is highly relevant to the practice of astronomy.

[–]astrophys 14ポイント15ポイント  (4子コメント)

Did my astronomy undergrad at Berkeley. He had been reported to the dept many times for being widely inappropriate. But he was too famous for them to want to do anything about it. I highly doubt that they'll take severe action against him despite all of this. This going public is probably one of the few things that might stop him. He really likes being famous and being in news articles and TV shows and I think the blowback he would get for doing more sexual harassment while the public eye is on him might stop this from happening. Or at least I hope it will. So thanks for sharing

[–]remote_production 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Too famous" to do anything makes me absolutely sick. You do the right thing regardless. Also, even to cover your ass how does that do any good?

Instead of thinking "A professor from Cal Berkeley was sexually harassing women" it's now also "Cal Berkeley covered for a professor who was sexually harassing women"

If you're an institution which one is worse?

Also, I've seen this guy on countless shows. This is really the first I've ever known of him personally. If this really was a known thing in the industry is hope producers would do a bit of research in the future as to which personalities they put on air.

[–]Andromeda321 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

I doubt they will do something though if this is the sort of response the dept chair has to the entire thing.

[–]TweetsInCommentsBot 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

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2015-10-10 06:49 UTC

This is part of the response made by the chair of Berkeley's astronomy department regarding Marcy & sexual harassment

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[–]heavymetaljew 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

Another former Berkeley undergrad. I knew y'all were creeped out by the guy, but I didn't realize that it was as serious as what happened. I guess it isn't the first time a scientist with a rockstar mentality has got caught sexually harassing women, and I wasn't surprised when the professor I work for announced this about Geoff in my lab's lunch hangout.

[–]optimister 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for posting. Awareness of this helps prevent further victims. Like priests, no scientist is beyond reproach.

[–]Andromeda321 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

Astronomer here- unfortunately, this behavior has been an open secret in astronomy for a long time. And he definitely isn't the only one like this. Reading the description of what he did was, unfortunately, like reading about my own interactions with another famous prof when I was in undergrad. And I know many other women who have similar experiences.

That said, I hope this is now something we can address in the astronomical community and work on. It's overdue.

[–]TheAtomicMango 10ポイント11ポイント  (3子コメント)

https://archive.is/YL3QB

Archive because Buzzfeed.

[–]EditorialComplex 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

That's a little unfair. Listicles aside, Buzzfeed does great original reporting sometimes.

[–]TheAtomicMango 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Emphasis on sometimes?

[–]EditorialComplex 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

No, actually, their long-form content team is pretty uniformly excellent.

[–]jondiced 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is mostly for the professional astronomers here, but you're encouraged to sign a petition in support of Marcy's victims. It already has over 1000 signatures (https://tinyurl.com/onef4qv)!

[–]MechaSixVII 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Pff buzzfeed

[–]K2Valor -4ポイント-3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, this guy was my professor. No comment.