Editing Stanford University (section)

==== Joe Lonsdale ====
{{see also|Joe Lonsdale#Sexual assault allegations}}
In February 2015, Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against venture capitalist [[Joe Lonsdale]].<ref name=Benner>Katie Benner for Bloomberg News. February 2, 2015 [https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-02/clougherty-s-sexual-assault-suit-against-formation-8-s-lonsdale Benner on Tech: Parsing a Sexual Assault Suit]</ref><ref name=Bazelon1>Emily Bazelon for ''The New York Times''. February 11, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor]</ref> Lonsdale and Clougherty entered into a relationship in the spring of 2012 when she was a junior and he was her mentor in a Stanford entrepreneurship course.<ref name=Bazelon1 /> By the spring of 2013 Clougherty had broken off the relationship and filed charges at Stanford that Lonsdale had broken the Stanford policy against consensual relationships between students and faculty and that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her, which resulted in Lonsdale being banned from Stanford for 10 years.<ref name=Bazelon1 /> Lonsdale challenged Stanford's finding that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her and Stanford rescinded that finding and the campus ban in the fall of 2015.<ref>Emily Bazelon for ''The New York Times''. November 4, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/magazine/the-lessons-of-stanfords-sex-assault-case-reversal.html The Lessons of Stanford's Sex-Assault-Case Reversal]</ref> Clougherty withdrew her suit that fall as well.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-privateequity-lonsdale-lawsuit-idUSKCN0SR23Q20151102?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews |title=Woman drops sex assault case against U.S. venture capitalist |newspaper=Reuters |date=November 2, 2015 |last1=McBride |first1=Dan Levine}}</ref>