{"id":100194,"date":"2019-06-24T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?post_type=dossier&p=100194"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:22","slug":"the-university-as-a-unsafe-workplace","status":"publish","type":"em_special","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/specials\/the-university-as-a-unsafe-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"#Metoo at university"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universities are implicated in the #Metoo discussion just as any other type of organisation. In university, strong hierarchical relationships between scientists, the unequal relationship between teachers and students or the clash of norms \u200b\u200bbetween (international) students sometimes lead to serious issues, also at Erasmus University. And even if incidents don\u2019t necessarily have a sexual charge, they can still lead to feelings of insecurity in the workplace.<\/p>\n

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Petition about sexual violence among students<\/h2>

In early 2019, Vietnamese student Cece Dao launched a petition: she wanted her alleged attacker (a fellow student in the Communication and Media study programme) to be banned from campus. Because the District Attorney had not yet come to a possible prosecution, the university was forced to act as a judge itself: would it ban a student who was not (yet) being prosecuted, or would it let a possible victim of sexual harassment sit in class with her alleged attacker? The university\u2019s Committee on Sexual Harassment, Aggression and Violence deemed the complaint without grounds after months: there was no case of sexual inappropriate behaviour. However, the university still arranged that Dao no longer had to sit in class with her fellow student. Dao didn\u2019t accept this decision and is considering further legal action.<\/p>\n\n\t

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