I'm back from vacation.

No new word on the resignation of Boalt Hall Dean Dwyer. The best article is actually in the Chron, which gives a little bit of the background behind the scandal.

Professor John Dwyer issued a statement saying he will leave his posts as dean and professor at the school "with profound sadness" because of the harassment complaint filed Oct. 11 by a female former law student.

His resignation is effective Jan. 1.

University officials said they began an internal investigation as soon as the charges were brought to their attention. They declined to give any details about what the woman alleged.

Remarkably, it appears the University successfully kept the allegations quiet since they were originally brought in early October. At least Mo Kashmiri, a Boalt student and Graduate Assembly officer, didn't seem to have any inside scoop. (Or he didn't want to say anything.)

Mo Kashmiri, a Boalt third-year student active in campus politics, said he was relieved Dwyer had resigned. "He's been very resistant to diversifying the faculty and the student body."

If someone in his position was unaware, then it's pretty safe to assume nobody had any idea.



So there's a host of unanswered questions: why is Dwyer only resigning now? Who brought the allegations? Why were they only made now?

UPDATE: Yeah, the Times story is better. Although it requires an incredible pain in the ass registration to read.Email This Post!