Jan. 17, 2020

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Male professor harassed

ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

TWO DEANS DIDN’T REPORT MARK HART’S SITUATION FOR YEARS By Hope Dean Alligator Staff Writer

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Jamie Douglas, an 18-year-old UF telecommunication sophomore, chants in solidarity with Iranian and Iraqi people at an anti-war demonstration on Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

Assistant professor Mark Hart wanted a new office. He shared a wall in with Sheena Pryce Fegumps, a co-worker in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions who is accused of touching Hart and making sexually explicit comments at him for more than a year. But it wasn’t just Pryce Fegumps, the college’s community outreach coordinator for the public health masters program. Christy Ewing, the college’s former academic programs specialist for the social and behavioral sciences doctoral program, is also accused of sexually harassing him — sometimes partnering with Pryce Fegumps to do it, Hart said. The Alligator reached out to Ewing and Pryce Fegumps but

neither responded before publication after a reporter sent an email, visited their office and called their work phone numbers. When Hart asked the college’s administration to move his office location in November 2018, he said it didn’t happen. But he didn’t want anyone to get in trouble, so he said he held his tongue. But in July 2019, he decided to speak up. Hart then opened two Title IX investigations for sexual harassment against Pryce Fegumps and Ewing. Both investigations from UF’s Office of Title IX Compliance, which ran from July 8 to Dec. 11, contain 100 pages worth of allegations, including those above. The investigations state that Pryce Fegumps and Ewing’s actions rose to the level of sexual harassment. It also said that two deans within the college, Amy Blue and Cindy Prins, didn’t report Hart’s case for at least a year when they were required to report it to

SEE HART, PAGE 4

Inspire Party leader steps down a month before election EMERGENCY PARTY ELECTION TO BE HELD MONDAY By Chasity Maynard Alligator Staff Writer

The Inspire Party Leader announced his resignation after Tuesday night’s Senate meeting. An election to replace Ben Lima will be held at the weekly caucus meeting Monday night, Assistant Minority Leader Santiago ClavijoGomez said. Clavijo-Gomez said he is serving as Acting Minority

Leader until the election. Senators must be nominated at the meeting to run for office, and senators can nominate themselves, Clavijo-Gomez said. He said he expects to be nominated and plans to run for minority party leader and that Legislative Director Claudia Paola Tio messaged him and other senators announcing that she is planning to run. Lima said he is stepping down to focus on his grades and exams. The 21-year-old UF political science senior plans to attend law

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school and is in the process of preparing to take the LSAT, the law school aptitude test, in February. “This is a position that requires 100 percent commitment and attention,” he said. “I’ve been in this for two-plus years, and I really just need to focus on academics right now.” He is a member of Inspire and will finish his term as a senator for District D. In addition to serving as a District D senator, Lima said he served as Inspire president from

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Fall 2017 to Spring 2018, a campaign manager in Fall 2018 and 2019 and minority leader from Fall 2019 until his resignation. Lima formally announced Inspire’s creation and founding pillars as the party’s inaugural president during the Fall 2017 election. He has been a consistent party leader and member since its inception. Lima announced the resolution to impeach Student Body President Michael Murphy in Fall. Lima was one of two senators forced to resign their seat over

the Summer after he was deemed “constructively absent” by thenSenate President Libby Shaw, putting him over the absence limit. He appealed his resignation, but it failed. Inspire won the majority of votes in Fall for the first time. Lima was a campaign manager during the election, and he was elected a District D senator.

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