Whitewater has a same-ten-people problem, derived from a few people living behind (metaphorically) a narrow and high perimeter fence, with those few often producing mediocre work, while the city’s economy stagnates. And yet, and yet – one reads that even during the third investigation for sexual harassment & assault concerning the relative she appointed, supervised,…
Misconduct
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Culture, Misconduct, Nepotism, That Which Paved the Way, University, UW System
An Example of Old Whitewater’s Deficient Reasoning
by JOHN ADAMS • • 7 Comments
Old Whitewater – a state of mind rather than a person or a person’s age – seldom speaks except to reveal its deficient reasoning (and to reveal, in fact, that it doesn’t even know what good reasoning might look like). Before going further, a reminder: FREE WHITEWATER is the work of one person, writing without…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, Nepotism, Newspapers, Public Relations, University, UW System
No Ordinary, Unconnected Spouse: Public officials’ use of family appointees
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Imagine a world where public officials appointed spouses to high-visibility positions in the very same workplace, over which they had supervisory authority, but then disclaimed any responsibility over those appointees when they committed acts of assault and harassment (“that wasn’t me, that was my spouse, brother, sister, or cousin,” etc.). They’ll rely on their own…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, Public Relations, Sexual Harassment, University, UW System
The UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Lack of Individual Regard
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
After – and only after – the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the story of repeated sexual harassment claims against Pete Hill – appointed to a public role as ‘associate of the chancellor’ (and chancellor Beverly Kopper’s husband) – did Kopper herself make a public statement of the matter. Kopper’s statement is notable for its utter lack…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, University, UW System
A fifth woman publicly accuses UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband of sexual harassment
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
In a story from the Chronicle for Higher Education, a fifth woman, Hailey Miller, reveals her own experience with harassment from Pete Hill, who held the position of associate to the chancellor (while also UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper’s husband). Miller’s account to the Chronicle, backed by contemporaneous notes she shared with that publication, is similar in…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, University, UW System
Chancellor Kopper Should Resign
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
A few hours ago, the Janesville Gazette published portions of an open letter from Whitewater City Councilwoman Stephanie Vander Pas describing harassment that she experienced from Pete Hill, husband of UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper, while Kopper was nearby. See Whitewater council member: UW-Whitewater chancellor should resign after her husband’s sexual harassment. Reading her remarks, along…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, University, UW System
Questions Concerning a Ban on the UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Husband After a Sexual Harassment Investigation
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
On Friday, this site linked to a published article in the Journal Sentinel about a campus ban against UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper’s husband after a UW System investigation found that he had committed acts of sexual harassment against campus employees. See Journal Sentinel: UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband banned from campus after sexual harassment investigation and the original story. …
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Harassment, Misconduct, University
Journal Sentinel: UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband banned from campus after sexual harassment investigation
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Updated 9.14.18 @ 3:25 PM with public records now available as provided to the Journal Sentinel – see embedded documents below. Karen Herzog of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband banned from campus after sexual harassment investigation: The husband of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper has been banned from campus and stripped of…
Immigration, Liberty, Misconduct, Press, Race
Detained, Unaccompanied Minors Discouarged from Talking About Their Conditions
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Exclusive: Unaccompanied children are cautioned not to speak with reporters about their situation pic.twitter.com/kE3fiMV7FD — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) June 26, 2018 “If for whatever reason you talk to a reporter, you know what’s going to happen to your case?” the woman is heard saying in Spanish. “It is going to be on the news, and…
Bad Ideas, City, Crime, Local Government, Misconduct, Police
On Public Urination in Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Well, here we are: after all these years of hearing that the town fathers were descended from Olympus, to a city of their unsurpassable design, one hears the Whitewater Common Council discussing the sometime problem of public urination. Needless to say, I don’t support this foul habit, and have not met anyone who does. Confronted…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct
Jennifer Rubin Writes of Enablers in Washington (and in Small Towns, Too)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Jennifer Rubin considers the views of Colbie Holderness, a domestic abuse survivor during her marriage to Rob Porter, an accused serial abuser: Her hope that women would be better than that may be well-founded in the aggregate. Trump is hemorrhaging support from women, both college- and non-college-educated ones. Yet Rubin reflects on human nature, and…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, Sexual Harassment
‘5 (Misguided) Reasons People Doubt Sexual Misconduct Victims’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Shaila Dewan writes She Didn’t Fight Back: 5 (Misguided) Reasons People Doubt Sexual Misconduct Victims: She took decades to come forward. She can’t remember exactly what happened. She sent friendly text messages to the same man she says assaulted her. She didn’t fight back. There are all sorts of reasons women who report sexual misconduct,…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Misconduct, Sexual Harassment
Three ‘Things That Make Organizations More Prone to Sexual Harassment’
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Marianne Cooper writes of The 3 Things That Make Organizations More Prone to Sexual Harassment: “typical of the sort of organization that researchers have found to be particularly prone to sexual harassment and abuse: male dominated, super hierarchical, and forgiving when it comes to bad behavior.” Cooper’s full article is well worth reading, but her reduction here to…
Crime, Law, Litigation, Misconduct
He Knew
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Raquel Rutledge reports that Eric Haertle knew the medical products he sold were infected: The former co-owner and chief operating officer of a Hartland pharmaceutical company — once among the nation’s largest manufacturers of alcohol wipes — has pleaded guilty to shipping a product he knew was contaminated with dangerous bacterium. Eric Haertle, who owned Triad…