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Professing English/Theater/Shakespeare • Writing @NewYorker @TheAtlantic • Scholaring @Portland_State • Taking counsel, tea
May 3, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Here’s the recap: I reported allegations of sexual misconduct against four members of the @LinfieldUniv Board. The Board retaliated against me. I asked them to stop retaliating. They fired me. And now they’re trying to silence anyone who supports me. oregonlive.com/education/2021… Students wrote messages on campus in chalk expressing their views about my termination. @LinfieldUniv hosed down the messages and threatened to fine students for unauthorized use of chalk.
Mar 29, 2021 23 tweets 10 min read
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The moment I knew that nothing would come of my claims that the @LinfieldUniv President and Board Chair had religiously harassed me was when I went to the head of HR, and she said: “Personally, I don’t believe the Jews have a secret agenda to grab power at all!” (1/23) The head of HR told me that she had a Jewish neighbor who was the nicest man, and he would never try to grab power or anything like that. I had gone to HR because as the faculty trustee (and, as far as I knew, the only openly Jewish trustee) on the @LinfieldUniv Board… (2/23)