Word: harassment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terrorist bombings, a new kind of pro-Palestinian college activism is spreading. Guerrilla theater is one of the tactics. At the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley, students dressed like Israeli soldiers have set up mock checkpoints on campus to "harass" students playing Palestinians. But the chief focus of anti-Israel feeling is the divestment campaign, which has been gaining momentum--and opponents. Petitions for divestment have circulated at more than 50 campuses, including Tufts and Cornell. In the University of California system, more than 7,000 students and faculty members...
...When we heard that the Church was trying to subpoena our communications we were horrified. This is the kind of behavior used to intimidate, harass and re-victimize,” said Susan Renehan, a member of the Coalition of Catholics and Survivors. “This is an ongoing conspiracy by the Catholic Church to hide crime...
Where The Crimson went astray, however, was in its assertion that the Title IX claim now pending before the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is “questionable.” As defined by OCR, Title IX forbids sexual harassment in education—and characterizes the most severe form as sexual assault. To say that sexual assault is not sexual harassment is to believe that the use of words to harass and intimidate women on campus violates civil rights laws, but the use of physical or sexual violence to bring about...
Last Thursday, I watched an Israeli soldier harass a Palestinian woman as she struggled desperately to cross a “checkpoint” to bring her sick baby to the hospital. The woman wept and pleaded, but the stolid soldier would not acquiesce. Oddly enough, I did not witness this encounter in the West Bank or Gaza. I watched this disturbing scene unfold in Harvard Square...
...made common cause with the Hizb e-Islami of Tehran-based warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has vowed to fight the U.S. and its allies in Kabul. Intelligence sources in Afghanistan even fear that these forces may be forging links with the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda to harass American and allied forces. Local sources allege that Hekmatyar's loyalists may have been behind the three attacks on the U.S. airbase at Kandahar in the past month...