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Members of the Society for American Archaeology have voted to allow the organization’s board to block people who have committed misconduct from attending its conferences, Science reports. The change, which went into effect last month, comes after the SAA faced considerable backlash for not immediately evicting a University of Alaska Anchorage professor—banned from his own campus for sexually harassing students—from a meeting earlier this year.
The language in the bylaw states that the board may ban someone from a conference. Another proposal that did not get passed stated that the board will block the person from attending. The less-imposing wording that was approved was a disappointment to some members.
“That means we have to have board members who are supportive of victims and other survivors,” says Sara Gonzalez, an archaeologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, tells Science, though she notes that it is still ...
