HARASSMENT Continued from Page 4A a defined term that is litigated in the courts." Drayton told the women he would conduct an inter nal investigotion on his own. Chiappisi said. After a few days, she asked Drayton what was happening with the investigation, and she said he told her he was too upset to handle the investigation at that time Chiappisi said she knew she had to go outside of the department at that point. Drayton denies speaking to Chiappisi after the initial meeting "Carey didn't move as quickly as he should have." Chiappisi said. “I felt he didn't care about what Otis did.” Drayton said he didn't have time to investigate the matter immediately because Chiappisi and the two oth ‘He would tell everyone what he did sexually with women the previous weekend, and nobody cared about his sexual performance — it doesn't have a lot to do with security* work.' — Susie Hunter, former OPS employee or women talked to him on a Friday, and the Offii e of Affirm ative Action tele phoned him on a Tuesday, notifying him that there was a complaint filed. “1 don't know how <)iii< klv it would be expected that some one who is already engaged in several different activities would lie able to re spond to that, and certainly, one day is not a lot of time.” Drayton said. Drayton said it is known in the office that he has a strong commitment to diversity. "I have a very strong posture when it comes to ths crimination and harassment and people treating people differently because of sexual orientation, etiDrayton said. “I take a very dim view of tile fact that I have u person who doesn't understand those tilings "If I were to deal with a case of inappropriate behav ior. my sanctions, I feel, would be a lot stronger on that employee than anything the University could do,” ho said. Drayton said he talked to Scarborough al>out his "in appropriate behavior" about three years ago. Me said he was fallowing up on rumors surfaced by different wom en who told Drayton they were receiving unwanted at tention from Scarborough. "With (Chiappisi) — I don't understand why she felt the need to tulk to so many people about (her experi ence)," Drayton said. "It was better for our department that she moved on because if that talk would've contin ued. it would've gutten worse. "She talked to four women who experienced similar things." Drayton said “All she did was find three other women (who said they had experienced sexual harass ment): when I'm talking over 150 employees any problem is had, one rape is bad. But put it into context and every female out there is not experiencing sexual harassment on a daily basis by this individual. Drayton said tie would lie "foolish" to say the office The University's discrimination policy explicitly prohibits sexual harassment as a form of unlawful sex discrimination. Sexual harassment is deflnitfai: "Unwelcome sexual advences, roqueotS for sexual favors, and Other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: ■y • Submission to such condim is made either explicitly or WUptlcitty a term or condition of an individual's employment or education. • Submission to, or rejection of such conduct by an imflvfdual is used as the basis for employment or educational decisions Stfodlny such individual. • Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably Interfering with an individual's work or education performance or creating an Intimidating, hostile or offensive environment. Graphic try M.tftfvtnw Stftustt* didn’t have a problem with sexual harassment because "we have people and people will make mistakes Risa llaberwan. a steward who was Si arhornugh s union representative throughout the investigation, said the union's main defense tor Si arlxirough vs .is that the University should not have pursued this rase tieoause the incident happened oil campus "It was the individual's choice lo go out w ith Si urbo rough, and she misinterpreted this date and vv.is naiv e, Ilalierman said "The University cannot charge sexual harassment unless il is job-related, Scarbo rough wasn't her super visor, and therefore, they were equals Although Scarho rough wasn't Chiappisi's direct su pervisor, he was the lead officer during the day shift, and he doled out her daily responsi bilities as a supervisor would. Chiappisi said The Office of Human Resources investigator. Ken Lehrman. said if cases happen off i arn pus but affix t the per son's work, or educ n tional environment on campus, then the office is most likely justified in taking on the case. ‘I don’t know how quickly it would be expected that someone who is already engaged in several different activities would be able to respond... one day is not a lot of time.’ Carey Drayton. OPS director Mmrman, vvno is a mo a umvursiiy iaw suiobiii. uives ligated the case and interviewed almost everyone Chiappisi told about the incident, including several OPS employees and Scarborough, A male officer who declined to use his name because he is still an OPS employee said he was interviewed bv Lehnnan because Chiappisi had confided in the em ployee last summer “(Scarborough) has a long history of harassing wom an." tin! officer said "The general fettling in the offictt was that he was guilty anti should’ve Ixten fired or transferred to another department or university." Susie Hunter, an OPS employee for eight years before she quit because of tin1 environment, said although she got along personally and professionally with Scarbo rmigh. he did talk graphically about sexual matters "There were numerous times when everyone was get ting their gear on before work and Otis would take the small talk further to where it became bedroom talk." Hunter said "I parallel it with male locker room talk He would tell everyone what he did sexually with women the previous weekend, and nohody cored ahout Ins sexual [MTlormam e it doesn't have a lot to do with security work " Another male officer, who requested anonymity lie cause lie still works at OPS. said he believes Scarbo rough wasn't fin*d Itei .wise of Ins support w ithin OPS "Everyone knew (Otis) had upper level support from O.irev (Drayton) and the top live nr six levels in the of fil e, the officer said ( arev doesn't get it People in the campus community like him. Imt lie's not liked in the oflit e The olficer said he agreed to lie interviewed tor this story hoc.nise he doesn't believe the mi blent was dealt with properly that there was a cover up and he wants the i am pus conummitv to know that there's a [Ml ter 11 of SeXU.ll ba rtsxrnenl lie also said he wasn’t surprised when (.hinppisi told luiii w hid hnppened "It WM .mother one ol Otis' conquests th.it failed miserably," the off’n er said Ihe lull time woman officer who said shi' was sexually harassed by Scarborough last April said she lielievos the (list ipline was more of a blind slapping. He should've been fired," she said “Noth ing's going to i hange, he's just going to have to lie more i .ireful After being notified by the University that Si arhoroogh bail been "disciplined," but not being informed of the nature of the discipline. 7 was glad, if nothing else, that he was found guilty. He should’ve been fired or at least moved to an office where he can’t deal with women students. 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