In December, a German music magazine called VAN published claims that Robert Beaser, a professor at Juilliard since 1993 and chair of its composition department from 1994 to 2018, committed non-tactile sexual harassment against female students and offered assistance with professional advancement in a quid pro quo for possible romantic relations.
Beaser’s late colleague Christopher Rouse, who died in 2019, was posthumously accused of similar conduct, and his living colleague, the composer John Corigliano, is alleged to have adopted a discriminatory policy of not working with female students.
Four days after the report appeared, a group of classical music professionals tied to an account styling itself “Composers Collective” published an open letter on Medium demanding Juilliard remove Beaser from active employment.
Despite claiming to “recognize and appreciate the need for due process,” the letter’s authors insisted that “the volume of allegations, testimony, and supporting evidence of Beaser’s misconduct are undeniably unsettling” and that “Beaser’s presence in the Juilliard composition department could jeopardize the emotional well-being of students.”
To the sensitive souls behind the letter, “allowing the alleged perpetrator to remain in a position of power and authority risks not only a daily affront to survivors of abuse, harassment, and discrimination; it is also a potential endorsement of immoral, unethical, and bigoted behavior.”
It would appear their understanding of “due process” does not encompass a principle as basic as presumption of innocence, a bedrock of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that reformed Title IX rules issued in 2020 explicitly require . . .
Full article: https://www.newsmax.com/paulduquenoy...07/id/1111370/
Interesting - one professor attacked for wanting to be with female students; the other attacked for discriminating by refusing to be around female students - Men just can't win!