From: Lawrence Kraus Si Sent: 12/11/2017 6:53:37 AM To: Nancy Portland cc: Lawrence Krauss i Subject: Re: URGENT: BuzzFeed News inquiry re allegations of sexual harassment Attachments: DA866543-7401-4A5A-8E50-FD32E33A50EC.png Importance: — High a few more minor changes.. one in first line of second paragraph and one misspelling corrected..so you can read this one: Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: MN, Assistant Origins Office ae origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu RSU Origins... ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY On Dec 10, 2017, at 10:31 PM, Lawrence Krauss i wrote: Second Draft: | appreciate the opportunity to respond to your email. While | am running the risk that you will report my comments, if you do, either out of context, or incompletely, | am responding with an effort to be complete. It is hard to know how to respond to a list of false and/or distorted allegations, along with misleading statements on your part. | treat people | interact with with respect, and | work hard to support and mentor students, colleagues, and members of the general public. | do not sexually harass people. If the purpose of your reporting is to somehow argue that Universities and other institutions are lax in dealing with well known individuals like myself, then in fact the situation is quite the opposite. My high public profile opens me up to more scrutiny at these institutions, not less, and it also opens me up to a host of outside complaints and allegations that other faculty do not receive, each of which the University has to respond to. The fact that | have remained a professor in all Universities with which | have been associated, in good standing, and also an officer or an invited speaker at organizations like CFI, which have strict harassment po