A USC professor who came under fire recently for telling students that “accusers sometimes lie” continues to teach despite student protesters demanding he be fired for suggesting such a thing.
The dean of the USC Price School, Jack Knott, called Professor Moore’s statement that “accusers sometimes lie” both “insensitive and incendiary” and added that it “showed a lack of sensitivity to the current climate.”
The email in which Moore stated “accusers sometimes lie” was a response to a school-wide invitation to a Women and Allies event titled “Coffee and Title IX.” The invitation urged students to “believe survivors” on the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“With Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony happening today, we are personally inspired to reiterate the importance of educating and empowering women and allies alike, and most of all, to BELIEVE SURVIVORS,” the invitation said.
Moore responded to the school-wide invitation by trying to convince students to see the situation from a different perspective.
“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now. Accusers sometimes lie,” Moore told students.
This pushed some students to gather Oct. 1 and protest Professor Moore and call for his firing. According to an article in the Daily Trojan, around 30 students gathered for the protest. During the protest, one of the organizers, Audrey Mechling, struck down Moore as a “pitiful excuse of a professor.” Another, Joelle Montier, denounced Moore as a “rape enabler.”
As a result the faculty no longer has access to student email lists. Moore said it concerns him that the faculty messages will now have to be curated in order to be sent out to the students.
“I do not look forward to the prospect of Dean Knott or his designee deciding which electronic messages I want to deliver to students are acceptable,” he said.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/despite-protest-usc-professors-job-looks-safe-after-championing-due-process/
The dean of the USC Price School, Jack Knott, called Professor Moore’s statement that “accusers sometimes lie” both “insensitive and incendiary” and added that it “showed a lack of sensitivity to the current climate.”
The email in which Moore stated “accusers sometimes lie” was a response to a school-wide invitation to a Women and Allies event titled “Coffee and Title IX.” The invitation urged students to “believe survivors” on the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“With Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony happening today, we are personally inspired to reiterate the importance of educating and empowering women and allies alike, and most of all, to BELIEVE SURVIVORS,” the invitation said.
Moore responded to the school-wide invitation by trying to convince students to see the situation from a different perspective.
“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now. Accusers sometimes lie,” Moore told students.
This pushed some students to gather Oct. 1 and protest Professor Moore and call for his firing. According to an article in the Daily Trojan, around 30 students gathered for the protest. During the protest, one of the organizers, Audrey Mechling, struck down Moore as a “pitiful excuse of a professor.” Another, Joelle Montier, denounced Moore as a “rape enabler.”
As a result the faculty no longer has access to student email lists. Moore said it concerns him that the faculty messages will now have to be curated in order to be sent out to the students.
“I do not look forward to the prospect of Dean Knott or his designee deciding which electronic messages I want to deliver to students are acceptable,” he said.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/despite-protest-usc-professors-job-looks-safe-after-championing-due-process/