Social consciousness is part of his identity
From a long piece on Geoff Marcy in the New York Times in May 2014:
Dr. Marcy lives high in the Berkeley hills with Dr. Kegley, “wife, chemist, goddess,” as he puts it on his website — an environmental chemist and chief executive of the consulting firm Pesticide Research Institute. Their backyard is home to beehives decorated with astronomical symbols, and a flock of chickens, leading the son of one of his graduate students to call him “Chicken Geoff.”
Social consciousness is part of his identity. At Santa Cruz he ran around plastering “Men Against Rape” stickers over nude pinups in the engineering and optics shops.
Hmmm.
On Nasawatch, someone came out with the “innocent until proven guilty” thing.
It’s interesting that nobody says that when a worker is fired for stealing from the workplace, or committing fraud by faking their timesheets, or other things that technically could be a prosecutable offense, but which are instead handled in-house as is routine and happens countless hundreds of thousands of times a year.
Nobody demands “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” (the court standard by which we judge “innocent until proven guilty”) when someone gets a bad performance review.
It’s only when a guy harasses (or does worse to) women in his workplace that some demand a conviction in a court of law before the employer is allowed to mildly say “tsk tsk, please be careful about such things from now on” to the person accused.
Jafafa Hots @1 – and the other thing about that “innocent until proven guilty” is that he was given the full benefit of the school processes, and they did establish his guilt. I don’t know if the standard is the same as in a court of law, but I do know that a school will be pretty careful to avoid calling someone guilty if they aren’t, because of legal ramifications, etc.
Burkas for calendars, no safety for his students and co-workers.