A tree-lined campus walkway features banners reading “Dance” and “Music” on lampposts beside a low building, with steps, railings, landscaped greenery, and people walking under tall evergreens.
FILE – The front terrace entrance to the Mendocino College Center Theatre in Ukiah, Calif., on Thursday, July 10, 2025. The theater is the east half of the visual and performing arts building at the college. (Sydney Fishman/Bay City News)

UPDATE, 9/8/25 – The next hearing in the lawsuit has been continued to 9 a.m. Friday at the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco. To watch the hearing remotely via Zoom, visit this link or use Zoom ID number 160 409 7690 and enter in passcode 516287.

UKIAH, CA., 09/05/25— At a hearing Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, lawyers will argue whether a lawsuit should proceed that alleges a Mendocino College professor sexually assaulted two underage students more than 20 years ago at San Francisco Waldorf High School, where he was employed as a substitute teacher and tutor. 

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Sydney Fishman is a UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow and lives full time in Ukiah. Reach her at sydney@mendovoice.com or through her Signal username @sydannfish.67.