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Students depend on their professors to maintain the integrity of student-teacher relationships--the cornerstone of a liberal arts education. In order to provide academic guidance, a professor must inspire the students' trust: Jorge Dominguez has lost our trust. The University's inadequate response to this case undermines Harvard's most fundamental and time-honored principle, that of providing to dedicated students the resources and environment necessary to pursue and academically wound education...
...Along with the academic crisis sparked by the Daminguez case, we are deeply worried about the University's handing of the issue; the case is far from closed. It is inexcusable that Harvard expect students to continue working with Professor Dominguez without refillable information regarding the University's investigations and actions on this issue...
...understand and appreciate the need for confidentiality to protect individuals. But the University's silence has left a vacuum now filled by destructive rumor and innuendo which can only further harm the victims of Professor Dominguez's reported abuse...
Equally destructive as the climate of rumor is the climate of fear which this case has generated within the academic community. Students who wish to express their outrage at the restrictions now placed on their academic programs, at the reprehensible actions of which Professor Dominguez has apparently been found guilty, or at the University's handling of the case, must consider first the ways in which Professor Dominguez may continue to affect their academic careers...
...believe that the Dominguez case brings into focus the larger issues of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of power at Harvard. Professor Dominguez's reported actions and the lack of a commensurate University response call into question Harvard's dedication to its professed commitment to protect students from sexual harassment. By token punishments and public silence, Harvard University is implicitly condoning sexual harassment...