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NU graduate student sues professor for revealing private details about alleged sexual assault in book By ALLYSON CHIU and MATTHEW CHOI
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A Northwestern graduate philosophy student filed a lawsuit Tuesday under the pseudonym Jane Doe against Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis and publishing house HarperCollins Publishers, LLC, following the April 4 release of Kipnis’ book, “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.” The book is a critique of Northwestern’s Title IX procedures told through Kipnis’ experiences with the process. Kipnis also goes indepth describing her interpretation of the cases of two students — Doe and an undergraduate student — who filed Title IX complaints against former Northwestern
philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow, claiming he had sexually assaulted them in separate incidents. Doe is represented by attorneys Jennifer Salvatore and Julie Porter. She filed a complaint in March 2014 against Ludlow, alleging sexual assault. Following an unfulfilled request to retract the book, Doe filed suit against Kipnis and HarperCollins on four counts: public disclosure of private facts, false light invasion of privacy, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit says Doe is suing for compensatory and punitive damages, which are not specified, and to grant further relief as the court sees just and proper. Doe deferred comment to Salvatore and Porter. A representative from
HarperCollins told The Daily in an email that the publishing house does not comment on pending litigation. Kipnis declined to comment following the lawsuit. In an email to The New York Times responding to a request for comment on the lawsuit, Kipnis said, “I’d like to comment, but I can’t.”
‘False and damaging statements’
The lawsuit claims Kipnis’ book contains inaccuracies, some of which allegedly misrepresent facts about Doe. The book also publicizes private facts about Doe’s life, the suit alleges. University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily that “Northwestern University is not a party to the lawsuit,” and that there is no University disciplinary action
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currently planned against Kipnis. Doe’s attorneys allege in the suit that Kipnis “gratuitously discloses private and embarrassing details” about Doe’s personal life in the book as a way to defend Ludlow and attempt to “reframe him as the victim of malicious female students and a Title IX process run amok.” “Our client was devastated and shocked to read the book,” Porter told The Daily. “This was a really painful chapter in her life to begin with, and she had moved through it the best that she could. … With
the publication of the book, not only was the whole story out there again, but the story was false in the way that it was presented.” The suit alleges that as a result of the book’s wide circulation, Kipnis and HarperCollins have “harmed” Doe’s reputation, career and education in addition to causing her to experience “economic and non-economic damages” such as mental anguish. According to the suit, Doe has had to delay her entry into the academic job market by “at least one
and possibly two academic years” as a result of “the firestorm of publicity and gossip” Kipnis’ book has generated in the field of philosophy academia. Porter told The Daily that Kipnis’ book misrepresents Doe as a “serial Title IX filer,” who “was out to get a certain professor and went to the lengths of making up a false narrative to make it happen.” The book’s portrayal of Doe is “absolutely not true,” Porter added. » See KIPNIS, page 6
Chicago Star Scholars to attend NU Reporter discusses Brothers receive transfer scholarship as part of partnership program
Bauer speaks about article on private prison conditions
By KRISTINA KARISCH
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CHICAGO — Twin brothers Nadeem and Naeem Patel didn’t think attending a fouryear university was within their financial means when they applied to college as seniors at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago. “(We) applied to a bunch of schools, but didn’t really get any financial aid,” Nadeem Patel said. “So we tried to look at other options. My mom went to community college, and she said we should look into it.” Th ey did, and ended up discovering a program called the Chicago Star Scholarship, which will provide them with transfer scholarships when they plan to attend Northwestern as juniors in the fall. The program allows high school graduates to enroll costfree at City Colleges of Chicago, earn an associate’s degree » See SCHOLARS, page 9
time undercover By ELIZABETH BYRNE
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a luncheon on May 12. Emanuel honored 25 Chicago Star Scholars who received scholarship money and internship placements through the program.
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Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer spent four months undercover as a private prison guard at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana to discover for himself the living and working conditions inside a private prison. “It was a really chaotic place,” Bauer told The Daily before speaking at an event Friday. “People were constantly trying to psych you out — it was a really complex web of power. It was very tense.” Bauer spoke to a group of about 70 students with Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffery (Medill ’93) at the event, which was hosted by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications in the McCormick
Foundation Center Forum. Former Medill Prof. Louise Kiernan, Medill graduate student Kara Voght and Medill junior Julia Jacobs, former editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, asked Bauer questions on stage. Bauer is the 2017 recipient of the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for his article “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard,” which was published in the July/August 2016 issue of Mother Jones. The Medill award highlights writers of prominent articles that “shed light on the causes, consequences and remedies of problems in American society,” according to the Medill website. It took 18 months to create the article: four months of reporting and 14 months of writing, editing and factchecking, Bauer said. He told The Daily that during his time undercover, he would identify and mentally “sketch out” possible scenes for his future article. » See BAUER, page 9
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