"The Director noted that in theory, if a complaint of sexual harassment, including sexual assault, came to his office first, he would conduct the investigation. He noted, however, that in his six years as Director, he has never received such a complaint first; instead, these are usually referred by the University Police Department."www2.ed.gov/documents/press-releases/suny-new-york-letter.doc
If the "Director" is Clarence L. McNeill, he lied to the U.S. Department of Education. I had gone to him with a complaint of sexual harassment before going to the UAlbany Police. He did not conduct an investigation, as far as I know - and at any rate, he claimed to the U.S. Department of Education that nobody has ever gone to him with a complaint prior to going to the UAlbany Police, which is flat out untrue.
Clarence L. McNeill had also lied to the U.S. Government Printing Office:
GPO: "Mr. Phillipo [sic], I have contacted Mr. Clarence McNeill. Per our discussion, he informed me that you are not restricted from entering the campus libraries or from contacting the library personnel. As such, you are not being denied access to Federal depository library resources.
"If you have any further questions about any restrictions, please contact Mr. McNeill."
McNeill had threatened me not to communicate with anyone at UAlbany other than himself. Only by making an exception for librarians upon being contacted by the GPO could he claim that I was not restricted from contacting library personnel.
After the then-chair of the department Jeanette Altarriba (who forced me to remain in Barberich's class over my objections: quid pro quo sexual harassment), supposedly warned Barberich not to engage in sexual harassment again, Michael W. Barberich instead engaged in further acts of sexual harassment - escalated them, really. Perhaps it excited him even more that his behavior was terribly offensive to people and that they were being forced to remain in his class in order to graduate. He escalated his academic dishonesty as well over the course of the semester. In the end I had to file a FOIL request for my own grades because he never provided them to me. I never knew how the supposed cancellation of the final exam was handled; it turned out (according to the documents the Records Access Officer provided, at least) that he'd given everyone a free A in lieu of a final exam. Not exactly something consistent with university policy, methinks.
McNeill repeatedly threatened me and worked to intimidate me and my family in writing so that Michael W. Barberich, a large middle-aged white male, could continue to engage in sexual harassment as much as he liked. McNeill's threats enabled Barberich to continue to joke about torturing his petite young Asian female foreign national teaching assistant if he wanted; continue, if he wanted, to bully a petite young African-American woman in class who smartly (but politely!) kept catching him contradicting the textbook without reason.
Barberich's the only professor I'd seen at any of the universities I've attended or visited who had his two MA-candidate teaching assistants get hands-on with him. He had them removing his coat, unpacking his bags, clipping on his microphone. He was not disabled; I'd seen him do those things himself. He seemed to just like to push boundaries with them, and to have the entire class along with his two BA-candidate TAs and his one PhD candidate TA observing him pushing those boundaries. The diva treatment that he liked to receive was perverse. That he had five TAs when other professors complain they are unable to obtain even one is also perverse, but he needed that many to prop him up, his instructional skills genuinely being so bad that he relied upon even BA-candidates (our classmates, essentially) to write his lectures and lecture notes for him which he'd then present in class and online as his own work all semester long.
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"each of the individual campuses that OCR visited must reexamine all sexual harassment/violence complaints filed during and since academic year 2011-2012. SUNY must report to OCR the actions it will take to correct problems identified in the manner in which these four campuses handled those complaints, which may include providing individual remedies for students.”
I'd reported Barberich, Altarriba, and others during that time period. One wonders if McNeill knew UAlbany was being investigated at the time he was threatening me in writing not just not to communicate with anyone other than himself at UAlbany, but he also threatened me in writing not to communicate with anyone anywhere about Michael W. Barberich and about Barberich's sexual harassment, academic dishonesty, faculty ethics violations, discrimination, and retaliation. The people I'd reported for sexual harassment and for retaliation for having been reported for sexual harassment should, I think, perhaps be placed on suicide watch - Michael W. Barberich in particular?
Barberich was tipped off by McNeill that I'd reported him outside of the Communication Department, above Altarriba who'd been ensuring that he could continue to gratify his urges for sexual harassment however he liked all semester long. Barberich's response was not to request a hearing, but instead to violate everything by instead resorting to retaliation in the form of filing a false police report about me making me out to be some kind of campus shooter with some kind of active shooter scenario under way or imminent.
Michael W. Barberich has no respect for his family (aside from putting their standard of living at risk by sexually gratifying himself inappropriately with students and TAs and his engaging in academic dishonesty, etc. he had also complained in class about his wife working and the difficulties of getting sitters for his children), his co-workers, his students, his teaching assistants, university policies, the union's contact, laws, or constitutional rights.
If Barberich can't get the armed university police to silence his victims, if Barberich can't get McNeill to silence his victims, if Barberich can't get his terrorist wife Therese Assalian to silence his victims, one worries what he'll do. Perhaps nothing, but better safe than sorry? While forced to remain in his class being subjected to his unprofessional and offensive behavior as a condition of receiving my degree and graduating I never knew specifically what to expect from him, just that his behavior would continue to be as bad as always or to grow worse.
His committing suicide would cheat his victims of the justice they deserve. He deserves life in prison as a serial sex offender who tried to resort to violence - trying to alarm an armed police department (with a history of firearms violations) that 160 or so students were in imminent danger from an "unstable" wannabe "martyr" - just so he could continue gratifying himself in whatever ways he was accustomed to doing.
Michael W. Barberich, PhD? More like Michael W. Barberich, PoS.
On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:05 PM, John Monfasani wrote:
"They don't want to deal with what is clearly a screw up on their part. McNeill is an incompetent; Barberich an outrage; and Alterriba a negligent chair." (bold emphasis added)
http://minervawept.blogspot.com/2013/06/mcneill-is-incompetent-barberich.html
I knew Clarence when we were kids growing up in the Throggs Neck projects in the Bronx, NY. It's interesting as to what he has become.
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