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In 2017, a number of women published allegations that Balakrishnan had committed sexual assault on multiple occasions. UC Santa Cruz launched an investigation in 2017 that was extended in May 2018.[5][6] Balakrishnan remains on paid administrative leave.

The professor, Gopal Balakrishnan, has denied the accusations, made by seven anonymous individuals whose accounts are part of a public statement circulating on the internet.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDeeo3-3SZ6IvhQa38VanjkNYyyKx4NrhBmDydS19_dEg_MO3gcQ5azKaSGve0wsaEOJO7DeiaaFyU/pub

The statement described him as someone who regularly hung out with undergraduate and graduate students in bars and at parties.

"I was introduced to GB as the ‘down’ Marxist professor," she wrote. "Students of the movement were really enamored with him, and it was a must to take his classes," she wrote. "The upsetting thing about this was that everyone knew he was creepy to women. It seemed to be tolerable to everyone because he was a Marxist and supported the student movement."


https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professor-at-UC-Santa-Cruz/241964

Really makes you think.