Five recent graduates of Canisius College, a small Jesuit school in Buffalo, New York, have filed a federal lawsuit against the college’s trustees for how the college responded when they reported a then-professor for “serial” sexual predation, The Buffalo News reports.
The lawsuit concerns Michael Noonan, a prominent researcher who chaired the college’s animal behavior, ecology, and conservation program. According to the suit, Noonan has a long story of selecting young women to join him as students and research assistants on research excursions to countries such as Indonesia, Uganda, India, where he exhibited a pattern of inappropriate touching, prying into students’ private lives, and pressuring them to let him conduct invasive medical procedures. For example, the women would often be asked to record footage of animals using audiovisual recording gear that Noonan allegedly insisted on personally fastening to the students’ undergarments while commenting on their bodies, Inside Higher Ed reports.
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