Edited by TJV News
What goes on when the lights go down?
According to one new allegation, plenty.
An NYU film school lecturer is reportedly pointing an accusing finger at a well-known professor of allegedly flashing her.
According to a lawsuit against NYU, 66 year old Lynn Boyarsky is claming that she was subject to abuse by a now deceased colleague named Arnold Baskin at the Tisch School Of The Arts. She is also alleging that Baskin exposed himself in a West Village restaurant not long after she started working as an adjunct professor there seven years ago, according to papers that have been filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“Baskin, an acclaimed film prof who died at the age of 83, three months before the legal action, “began bullying … [and] using crude and demeaning, gender-laden language towards her — such as, ‘big mouth, big rack’ or the ‘tiny Jew’ with the ‘big tits’ — in front of faculty,” the suit reads,” reported the New York Post. “Before long, he engaged in unwanted touching … and kissing her on the lips without her consent. ”
A Hollywood veteran for nearly four decades, Boyarsky promised and/or warned that he could sabotage her career if she didn’t play along. She said she told authorities at the school about his comments, at which point the school conducted what she termed a “sham” investigation.” The complaints went nowhere, and she herself came under fire.
“NYU takes claims of sexual misconduct very seriously. Indeed, in Ms. Boyarsky’s case, the University promptly and thoroughly investigated her claims. NYU disputes her claims of unresponsiveness and retaliation, and expects the ultimate outcome of the case will reflect NYU’s position,” NYU Spokesman John Beckman told The Post.
NYU continues to be a source of scandal, sexual and otherwise. Less than a month ago the NYU chapter of the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity was suspended indefinitely by both the University and the national fraternity after racist GroupMe messages concerning the public outrage in Minnesota were leaked on Twitter.
“As (blanked) up as it is, I think the threat of police brutality actually keeps those communities more safe than without it,” one member of the chat, Stern student Roger Sun, wrote, according to NYU’s independent student newspaper Washington Square News. “He later asked nobody to screenshot the messages, writing that his life would be ruined. Fellow Stern student Jun Cha chimed in that “Black people also don’t recognize that they kill each other the most for some reason.”
