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Secret taping is not illegal under federal or District of Columbia law. However, a 1981 GSA regulation generally forbids the recording of telephone conversations by Government employees if the other party has not consented, a fact that two USIA general counsels brought to Wick's attention in March...
...professors emerged in 1982 as an issue of painful reality. Yet it seems certain did no proposal for discipline guilty Faculty. Instead it will remain bottled up in the Faculty Council, which will do little more than eventually announce that it generally deplores harassment as it did in the GSA case. Such secrecy can cause unexpected as well as obvious problems. As Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, recently observed, the effects of Harvard's secrecy on sexual harassment have proven unfortunate indeed. Because the only two sexual harassers publicly identifies by victims are Black. Patterson noted, sexual harassment has begun...
Obviously there are issues out there that the Faculty could be discussing. But they of Harvard's Faculty, are also most likely to prove for the University. The Faculty Council for one example, spent much of the spring of 1981 discussing a Gay Students association (GSA) proposal that the University forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Eventually it quested the proposal. But the Council operates behind closed doors, and University Hall quickly nixed the GSA's follow-up effort to bring the issue before the Faculty itself, so the arguments responsible for the proposal's defeat never came...
...such success has its dangers too. This is also the first fall since the movement took off that the GSA president's name has not been one of the most well known on campus. And of the students who have followed the GSA's attempts to win a nondiscrimination statement from the Faculty, to place GSA materials in registration packets, to secure apologies for offensive behavior from the yearbook and from an outspoken scholar, few are even aware this year that the group itself has merged and changed, now calling itself the Gay and Lesbian Students Association (GLSA...
...administration, as the GSA and numerous other student groups have found, proved less receptive, and the gains in gay rights that were committed to paper were distressingly few. The Faculty at the time refused even to place on the books a non-discrimination statement, such as nine out of eleven Harvard faculties had adopted already...