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...society's of arts and letters. (He has yet to return his initiation rose as he remains unpublished.) He "never paid any attention to the clubs [final or The Hasty Pudding]" and declined when offered membership. Active as he was, he wrote an honors English thesis on Flannery O'Connor and was graduated cum laude...
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the court, rejected the "psychological injury" standard. Federal law, she said, "comes into play before the harassing conduct leads to a nervous breakdown." While "merely offensive" conduct is not prohibited, she wrote, an employer has broken the law if a "reasonable person" would find the workplace so filled with sexual improprieties that it had become a hostile and abusive environment...
...decision marks a triumphant fulfillment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's promise in August that she and O'Connor would help their male colleagues "look at life a bit differently." (Ginsburg wrote a brief concurrence, her first writing on the high bench.) Says law professor Susan Deller Ross, head of Georgetown University's Sex Discrimination Clinic: "This illustrates the merits of diversity. Men have not typically undergone a barrage of verbal abuse about their sexuality as a condition of having a job. I think they have a very difficult time understanding the impact of that." The seven...
...Joseph O'Connor, Dunster superintendent, said he had not heard of the changed route, but students had not complained...
...Tempesta] hasn't spoken with me, and I haven't seen anything," O'Connor said. "Obviously people are aware of the construction, and nobody has complained...