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...recent weeks, seven female graduate students have alleged that Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas van der Merwe told them sexually explicit jokes. Five of the students said they considered the behavior to be harassment...
...behavior--have not been properly handled by those responsible for resolving them. In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, that responsibility rests with Margot N. Gill, the school's dean for student affairs. To date, Gill has not launched even a perfunctory investigation into the allegations, against van der Merwe. And she has refused to discuss the charges with reporters. Meanwhile, the wing suffers. The alleged victims suffer. And van der Merwe suffers. At this point, since Gill has clearly dropped the ball, her superiors should step in. The University should launch a formal investigation into the allegations, headed...
Furthermore, Knowles should put a stop to the witch-hunt atmosphere that currently pervades the archaeology wing. That witch-hunt to identify and presumably punish van der Merwe's accusers, is--almost unbelievably--acknowledged by the senior professors conducting it. As Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky told The Crimson, "People here have done a lot of work figuring out who has spoken to you. We know who is talking...
With great dismay I read that I had filed a formal complaint of sexual harassment against Prof. Van der Merwe in Jonathan Axelrod and Jonathan Lewin's article "Allegations Divide Wing...
Editor's note: The story noted that Professor van der Merwe was the only source for the statement that Chesson had filed a formal complaint. As to Chesson's suggestion that she never received and opportunity to set the record straight, Crimson reporters contacted Chesson and asked her about the complaint. She refused to comment. Merideth S. Chesson Department of Anthropology