EAGLE ROCK PATCH - A longtime Occidental College athletics trainer who resigned last month following allegations that he sexually harassed female students
is at the center of another controversy over whether or not he should be officially listed as a sexual predator, and if Oxy Director of Athletics Jaime Hoffman failed to take timely action against him.
In a letter to the editor published Tuesday in Occidental Weekly, Philip Niklaus, the father of one of the students reportedly harassed by Head Athletic Trainer John Sweet durin g 2008-2009, demanded that Hoffman should be held accountable for allegedly not addressing the sexual harassment scandal in her department when it first came to light in 2009.
Niklaus wrote in his letter that although he formally complained to “virtually everyone in authority in the Oxy administration” in March 2009 after Sweet allegedly subjected Niklaus’ daughter Emily to sexual harassment, he never received a reply from the college. (Read the rest … including what Niklaus says the college did … here)
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CityWatch
Vol 11 Issue 30
Pub: Apr 12, 2013
