US Academia Faces Its Own Reckoning Over Harassment Allegations

In this Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, photo, Professor Celeste Kidd is photographed at University of Rochester, in Rochester, N.Y. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

When Celeste Kidd was a graduate student of neuroscience at the University of Rochester she says a professor supervising her made her life unbearable by stalking her, making demeaning comments about her weight and talking about sex.

University Apologizes For Slide Suggesting Masturbation

This October 2015 photo shows the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. The western New York university has apologized after being criticized for a slide shown during a student orientation session that suggested masturbation as a deterrent to sexual assault. (Max Schulte/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)

A university that during a student orientation session showed a slide that appeared to suggest masturbation as a deterrent to sexual assault has apologized.