California IN BRIEF : BERKELEY : Professor Fired for Sexual Harassment

A professor at UC Berkeley has been fired in a sexual harassment case, campus officials said. The dismissal of associate professor Michel Strickmann was announced as a matter of routine two months ago following approval of the action by the university Board of Regents, said campus spokesman Ray Colvig. However, no mention was made at that time of the reasons for the dismissal, as is customary in personnel cases, Colvig said. Colvig said Strickmann’s dismissal was based on violations of the faculty’s code of conduct and that the offense was sexual harassment. He declined, however, to provide other details about the events leading to the dismissal.