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One of the @JoeBiden's first acts is hiring Suzanne Goldberg, the administrator largely responsible for Columbia's complete failure to address campus sexual violence & Title IX. And since I guess @ItsOnUs as students to stop this mess, a thread with some of her highlights:
1. Failing to report my assault despite being legally required to under Title IX (and for those wondering, I was then assaulted again by the same person 11 days later; Goldberg has never apologized, and actually still defends this).
2. Literally hiding in a closet when students came to give her a petition asking that she protect queer survivors of violence. (Ironic, right?) Oh and another time, she locked her door when she heard students enter.
3. Threatening survivors with disciplinary action for protesting her, and trying to discipline students who peacefully protested neo-Nazi white supremacists who came to campus.
4. Refusing to meet with individual students who wanted to discuss their experiences. One of her main roles on campus, BTW? The head of the Office of University Life. Yet I guess she had zero interest in learning about actual, you know, life at the university ...
5. Only reporting/disciplining Black student protestors who attended literally the same events as white protestors, including threatening Black students who literally weren't even at protests at all.
6. Defending policies that, among other things: conflated arousal with sexual consent, banned students from recording their own Title IX hearings, said people can consent while being "blacked out" drunk, and allowed people to pass the consent ed requirement by writing haikus.
7. Telling a group of queer and trans BIPOC students that "queer and trans students of color feel very supported on campus." (For those still wondering in case it wasn't clear before, Goldberg is white.)
Here's the campus paper's great write-up on her exploits, which barely scratches the surface seeing as she had 6-7 (yes, really) simultaneous jobs on campus that all conflicted with one another/gave her total oversight over herself: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/01/20/executive-vice-president-for-university-life-suzanne-goldberg-to-leave-columbia-join-the-biden-administration/
. @JoeBiden, @WhiteHouse, @KamalaHarris, fellow survivors and I spent 35 hours a week trying to undo the problems Goldberg created. You claim to care about survivors of campus violence? Show us. It's on YOU to hire someone who will support QTPOC people and survivors.
Oh, and forgot this one, but members of her University Senate sub-committee literally started organizing to oust her because of her behavior, leading to a charming pamphlet with many student testimonies about how she has harmed those around her.
Someone being queer doesn't automatically make them an activist. Someone being a woman doesn't automatically make them a feminist. Someone being a lawyer doesn't automatically mean they follow the law.
