Geoffrey Marcy

According to the lawsuit, the UC Board of Regents’ actions violated AlSayyad’s right to be free from discrimination based on national origin under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.

A recent federal investigation found that UC Berkeley’s handling of sexual misconduct violated Title IX — a conclusion that, of course, comes as little surprise to the countless survivors who have repeatedly spoken out against UC Berkeley.

Nearly two months into the fall semester, the ASUC sexual violence prevention commission sits abandoned — inactive, because apparently, only one person applied to be its chair.

In recent years, the campus has garnered attention for several high-profile sexual harassment cases — including alleged violations of UC sexual misconduct policy by former campus astronomy professor Geoffrey Marcy and former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry.

Joanna Ong and Alyssa Leader both hold degrees from premier American universities — UC Berkeley and Harvard University, respectively. They are also both suing their alma maters for mishandling cases of sexual misconduct.

After Sofie Karasek filed a sexual assault complaint with the UC Berkeley Title IX office in 2012, she didn’t hear back for eight months.

Over half of the chancellor’s cabinet has announced their resignations in the past 19 months, including all but one of the campus’s vice chancellors and vice provosts, casting doubt on UC Berkeley’s reputation and ability to govern itself effectively.

Hesse said she hopes to announce the membership of a UC Berkeley peer review committee next month — independent of the systemwide committee announced by Napolitano in March — which would serve as "a confidential panel of peers” to advise the chancellor on proposed sanctions for sexual assault and harassment on campus.

Former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry sued the UC Board of Regents — among other university-related parties — on Thursday, alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination and that the university was attempting to deprive him of his reputation and career.

The students, Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow, alleged that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg in a lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents in June 2015.