Keble investigates sexual harassment claims
Keble College are investigating two separate incidents of alleged sexual harassment amongst its undergraduate community. The Oxford Student has learnt that two male students have already been punished for circulating an offensive photograph of a female student, and that another male student is facing disciplinary action after being accused of making a series of ‘heavy breathing’ phone calls to a female student.
Two Keble undergraduates were fined £20 each and banned from university ICT facilities for a week after e-mailing a photo graph of a fellow Keble undergraduate to a large number of students. According to a student who knows the details of the incident but wishes to remain anonymous, “They took a photo of the girl from the Facebook website and doctored it in Photoshop so that it depicted an erect penis over her face.
On realising what had happened, the student in the photograph formally complained to the college. The college dean called the two male students in to investigate before deciding to fine them and restrict their access to the computer network. Last week college authorities began a separate enquiry into allegations of sexual harassment brought by a female student after she was the victim of a number of ‘prank’ phone calls.
The phone calls were made to her college room and are believed to have consisted of ‘heavy breathing’. A source close to the case said that there had been a ‘large volume’ of calls made which had been logged by the college and that a male student, also at Keble, is facing disciplinary action over the incident. He could now be expelled from college accommodation or face action by the University proctors.
3rd Nov 2005