Yesterday, The Oklahoman published a report about yet another sexual harassment lawsuit involving faculty at The University of Oklahoma.
This time around, a former employee claims she had to quit her job as an academic adviser because she was under “a relentless campaign of harassment and predation” by an OU professor in the University's esteemed Classics and Letters department.
This harassment and predation allegedly involved creepy text messages, comments, phone sex, and even assault.
According to the victim, it culminated with the professor acting like a sleazy Byzantine emperor and making a sad, desperate, and totally unwanted move on her in his office.
Here are the basic details via The Oklahoman:
A former academic adviser at the University of Oklahoma is suing the school and her former department chair, saying she had to resign from her job because of relentless sexual harassment.
The former adviser, named in the federal lawsuit as “Jane Doe,” claims the harassment and discrimination she allegedly suffered from the department chair “was sufficiently severe and pervasive to create an abusive and sexually hostile work environment.”
According to the lawsuit, the defendant “John Doe” is a prominent scholar and a department chair in the OU College of Arts and Sciences.