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...department is also seeing a vigorous student protest against the return this fall of one of the professors accused of sexual harassment, Jorge I. Dominguez, Harvard's senior authority on Latin American political science...
...Dominguez was disciplined in the summer of 1983 for sexually harassing a female junior faculty member in the department and last year took an unexpected leave of absence. In February of this year, Harvard announced that Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. would resign as a result of an allegation of sexual misconduct. The two cases follow a 1979 case in which another tenured faculty member in the department was reprimanded for sexually harassing a member of the Class of '83, according to reports at the time...
Apparently, the University and the Faculty handled the situation differently than they did in 1983 when Jorge I. Dominguez, accused of harassment, was stripped of a committee chairmanship but not of his tenure. While the University received praise in February for getting tough with a problem seen as grave for women on campuses nationwide and in Harvard's Government Department specifically, in fact it remains unclear what if any role the University played in Hibbs's resignation. Moreover, it is possible that Harvard was impelled by threats of further action by one of the two women or by MIT itself...
...this date, the University has refused even to confirm or to deny that it followed procedures it set up to handle harassment in the wake of the Dominguez case. This failure to clarify the circumstances of Hibbs's resignation and its own statement, as well as simply what procedures were followed, demonstrate that it is not yet prepared to deal in good faith with current or future victims of harassment...
Quizzically, Harvard has refused even to confirm or deny that it followed Faculty procedures set up in the wake of the Dominguez case to handle future incidents of harassment...