Prominent UCI professor/researcher Alexander McPherson is being threatened with suspension because he has officially refused to take sexual harassment training courses. The professor has brought in an incredible amount of funding to UCI through his research.

O.C. Register:

UCI has already relieved Alexander McPherson of his duties supervising scientists in his lab, where he studies proteins, the “building blocks of life.” The campus also ordered that his teaching responsibilities be reassigned, but the order was rescinded.

McPherson, who has generated about $20 million in research funding since joining UCI in 1997, says he won't attend the course, even if it leads to his suspension from a job that pays $148,740 a year.

"I consider my refusal an act of civil disobedience. I even offered to go to jail if the university persisted in persecuting me for my refusal. We Scots are very stubborn in matters of this sort.”

 This guy is quite the off-shoot of what normally happens at the very systematic UC Irvine. He is going against the system and doing it with conviction without any regard for his position at the school. I like his style.