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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:45 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The Geoff Marcy situation
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
There’s an article in the New York Times that includes links to excellent letters issued earlier this week by the graduate student community and the postdoc community in Berkeley’s Astronomy Department:
These letters emphasize that there pretty clearly has been a pattern of tolerance and coverup of this sort of behavior at the level of the department, the school/college, and the university, going back a long way. That is, people were not unaware – however nothing was said, and nothing much was done.
Hopefully that’s not how things work at UW – and not how they will work anywhere in the future.