What also makes me nervous is verdicts tend to come back from the provost’s office as “no wrongdoing found.” Wrongdoing in this case means violation of university policies. Most of those are previous provosts, not this one, but still.

Admittedly I only know of five other cases, and four of them I would actually agree there was no violation. But the fifth was a sexual harassment case complete with witnesses.

I definitely won’t feel good if “no wrongdoing” comes back because I’m pretty sure university policies were violated. I don’t want anyone punished, but I also don’t want anything like that to happen again, and “no wrongdoing” isn’t going to help that.