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...without pay and he ultimately resigned. The book also mentions an incident at Clark College when in 1980 an assistant professor filed harassment charges against another junior faculty member. The assistant professor, joined with another woman, took her case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a sex discrimination complaint. The male professor then sued the women for defamation of character, prompting them to countersue. Ultimately, the case was settled internally and all outside suits were dropped...
...That complaint was also settled out of court...
Right, but still incorrect. With traditional quirkiness, the Swedish Academy last week bestowed the Nobel laurel (and approximately $193,000) on English Novelist William Golding. The decision dumbfounded nearly everybody and drove one of the 18 academy members into an unprecedented public complaint. Artur Lundkvist, 77, called the selection of Golding a "coup" and described the new laureate as "decent but hardly in the Nobel Prize class." Lars Gyllensten, permanent secretary of the academy, countered this objection by saying Lundkvist has "the soul of a magpie" and then announced, a day later, that the maverick "has beaten a retreat...
...instance, once a formal complaint is filed, the University will ask the accused harasser for a written response. The harasser is therefore allowed to see the victim's complaint, but the victim is not necessarily allowed to see the harasser's response. Harvard thereby omits a critical component of due process; the right of each side to respond to the evidence gathered by the other...
Harvard's procedures, or rather the lack of set procedures, make the complaint process as difficult as possible for the victim. Their approach violates almost all the notions of fairness we would expect to be respected in a judicial proceeding of this kind...