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Sujit Choudry, the former law school dean at the University of California-Berkeley, claims he is the fall guy for “appalling sexual misconduct” by white faculty and administrators.

In a new discrimination lawsuit against the school, which made him a “pariah” after he was accused of sexually harassing his assistant with “hugs, kisses and caresses,” Choudry claims the administration illegally punished him in order to “improve the University’s image” following other sexual harassment scandals.

According to the Bay Area News Group, UC President Janet Napolitano “ordered a second round of disciplinary proceedings against Choudry” after news broke that his accuser, Tyann Sorrell, had filed a lawsuit against him.

Napolitano then ordered him banned from campus for the rest of the spring 2016 term. He just returned but is not teaching this fall term.

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Choudry had initially kept his position as dean but was first punished with “a one-time, 10 percent pay cut” and was forced to write an apology letter and “undergo training”:

“By targeting Professor Choudhry, who is of South Asian descent and a non-U.S. citizen, the University hopes to deflect attention from its failure to meaningfully punish Caucasian faculty and administrators who were found to have committed appalling sexual misconduct,” stated the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Sorrell’s lawyer claims that Choudry would have been punished more harshly to start, if not for his “privilege.”

As dean last year, Choudry was responsible for segregating first-year law students by race to achieve “critical mass” in smaller class sections.

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h/t Inside Higher Ed

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