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Strangely, we live in a time when it is considered criminal that seven female graduates students might have been told sexually explicit jokes by Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe. The students do not claim obvious transgressions such as physical assault or even the demand of sexual favors for career advancement...
...with such accusations, it is not surprising that Professor van der Merwe has denied engaging in any form of sexual harassment. The students allege only that he has told some tasteless jokes. "These allegations are ridiculous," he tells us. And he is absolutely right...
...story was based on interviews with more than 50 students and professors over a two-month period however, no one who charged van der Merwe with misconduct spoke on the record...
...would have been relevant to the story also refused to speak about the alleged incidents. Among them, Anthropology Department Chair Peter T. Ellison and graduate student Meredith Chesson. Ellison chaired a meeting last week to discuss morale in the archaeology wing of his department. Chesson was the student van der Merwe said had raised allegations against him because she didn't want to take his class...
...staff editorial, "Investigate Charges," which appeared in Wednesday's paper, is inaccurate in one respect. It claims that Margot N. Gill, the GSAS's dean of student affairs who is responsible for handling cases of sexual misconduct, has "not even launched a perfunctory investigation into the allegations against van der Merwe...