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Gilligan's work marks the first time anyone has studied female moral development. "Before Gilligan's work there wasn't enough material to write a chapter on girls and moral development," says Edith Phelps, the director of a new center for the study of gender, education and human development at the Ed School...
...surprisingly, this administrative lack of purpose extended to the faculty as well. Harvard had the largest Students for a Democratic Society chapter in the country, and it counted a number of prominent professors as members. "The administration was in a dilemma," said Riesman, himself a strong critic of the war and active in the peace movement, but a moderate in the sense that he rejected the revolutionary calls of the new left and the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out ideology of the counterculture. "What was the administration to do with professors who incited violence? What to do with [Higgins...
Other examples in the chapter have a familiar sound, like a Harvard freshman's report of her poetry professor's repeated attempts to proposition her in and out of class in the spring...
HALFWAY THROUGH READing the case studies chapter of The Lecherous Professor, a sensitive and pioneering analysis of the problem of sexual harassment at universities. I caught myself thinking. "Thank God I'm not pretty enough to have ever had to deal with any of this...
...latest chapter in the synfuel saga began two weeks ago with the resignation of Victor Thompson, 59, who had been the SFC's $135,000-a-year president for just two months. Thompson's departure means that the SFC board does not have enough members to conduct business legally. Thompson had replaced Victor Schroeder, the organization's first president, who resigned from the post in August amid a flurry of allegations, among them that he had charged $25,000 in home interest payments to the corporation. Just days after Thompson accepted his new job, the Securities...