In Ivonne del Valle protests at Berkeley, a craving for truths

One wonders how long Prof Clover would have lasted if the roles were reversed ...

Indeed. It appears that because de Valle is from a minority group, her behaviour towards a male colleague is being trivialised and instead the victim faces accusations that lack evidence. This is not equality but demand for preferential treatment.

Why do so many of these spats get bogged down in the irrelevancies of who people ARE - the stuff over which they have no control, like gender & ethnicity - instead of looking at the real issue: what they actually DO? Sounds from the outside as one of those misunderstandings that mature individuals pass off as one of those things, but which the shrill voices escalate into far more than it ever was. So 2 people meet in a bar, one is more interested than the other, so what? Are either of the parties involved setting a good example to their students?