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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Harvard's Harvey Weinstein Mess

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ronald Sullivan joined Harvey Weinstein’s defense team in January. This set off a wave of protests and sit-ins across the Harvard campus asking for the removal of Sullivan as faculty dean at the university. And those student protests worked. On Saturday, Harvard University announced that it was declining to renew the appointments of Ronald Sullivan and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, as faculty deans of Winthrop House. What precedent does this decision set? And is it fair for the university to strip them of their positions? Guest: Lara Bazelon, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Laura Bazlon, sometimes she'll arrive at her office and she'll find these voicemails.

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Some of which are obscene, some of which are saying things like,

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I need to be fired and that on fire buried underground.

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It's what's really strange about them is most of the people who leave them are women

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and they talk in these very nice calm tones.

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So it's just kind of eerie.

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They're not usually screaming or hostile, which makes them scarier in a way.

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Laura's a writer and a lawyer.

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She's starting getting these voicemails because of the work she does.

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Work she only went public about recently.

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I came out to the world, I think, in the most public way that you possibly can,

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which is that I wrote an op-ed for The New York Times.

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She wrote about the work she does defending men accused of sexual misconduct.

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It's why when critics leave her those messages, sometimes they call her a rape apologist.

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