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...Loree L. Farrar '81 recalls her helplessness after visiting a professor's office last year. He approached her as she left the office and "gave me a slobbering kiss on the mouth." She backed out the door and ran out. Farrar did not report the incident even though he telephoned her throughout the year to ask her out for lunch. She continued to refuse, pretending not to recognize the sexual implications, hoping he would finally give up. Farrar says she did not go to a dean because she though "it would have been his (the professor's) word against mine...
...Farrar says she did not know that Walzer's responsibilities included handling sexual harassment cases. "If I had known there had been a place to go, I would have gone, "Farrar says adding she is considering filing a complaint now, if only to show the administration "this is not an isolated incident." If she had known that other women experience sexual harassment, she says she would "have felt much more comfortable about filing a complaint...
...their experiences, they begin to see that pattern. Lundeen and others, however, say speaking openly can easily degenerate into "destructive gossip." But most women who have encountered sexual harassment at the University are more interested in having it stop than they are in smearing a professor's name. As Farrar says, "My goal was not to get him (the professor) into trouble; my goal was to get out of it unscathed...
Darkness Visible, By William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in the mirror, shook your head and whispered "Piggy...
...Right Stuff By Tom Wolfe. (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $12.95): Remember Project Mercury? Gus Grissom? John Glenn? Tom Wolfe's passionate chronicle of America's entry into the space age, The Right Stuff, brings back the memories--or introduces the subject--of the time when America braced for the Soviet threat from the sky and celebrated the heroes who fought that intergalactic cold war. More than that, Wolfe describes the code by which these men lived, the hell-raising, ass-kicking, flag-waving brotherhood of The Right Stuff. It's an exuberant and satisfying look at previously unexplored territory...