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...cameras whirred, a young man triumphantly burned what looked like a draft card. "Hell no, we won't go!" chanted the students who surrounded him on Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley. The plaza has been the site of bitter student protests dating back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964. This time, about 1,000 young men and women were there to demonstrate against Jimmy Carter's call to resume draft registration...
...Berkeley, a group of female sociology students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist...
...terrified." But WOASH does not believe Hermassi has suffered enough. "The suspension is a piddling result, an outrage," says Merle Weiner, 27, a sociology graduate student who is a leader of WOASH. The organization vows to re-open the fight if the professor returns to Berkeley and seeks tenure next fall...
...JOSE, Cal--Two Eay Area professors, one at San Jose State University and the other at University of California at Berkeley, have been severely disciplined for allegedly sexually harassing women students...
...Berkeley, Elbaki Hermassi, assistant professor of sociology, was suspended without pay for one quarter for allegedly similar behavior dating since 1971. A record of the incident will also be placed in Hermassi's permanent personnel file, university officials said...