Word: harmfulness
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When a student brings a complaint against a faculty member, special care must be taken to avoid harm to the student. This need is particularly great for graduate students because of the apprenticeship nature of graduate studies. Graduate students depend on their advisers not only while completing their degrees, but also for obtaining positions and research funding long into the future. Their careers are at stake in any confrontation with an adviser. The confidentiality that is central to our processes is thus necessary not only to preserve the presumption of innocence for the accused, but also to protect the complainant...
...want the Oluloro affair to be a test case. "Claims based on gender oppression have not been recognized as a basis for asylum," says Nancy Kelly, directing attorney of the Women's Refugee Project, a joint program of Harvard Law School and Cambridge and Somerville (Massachusetts) Legal Services. "Harm that is done to women is seen as a personal, private or cultural matter. Genital mutilation has not been seen as a type of harm." The feminist mainstream has been particularly galvanized by the highly personalized documentary film and book on female-genital mutilation, Warrior Marks, co-authored by novelist Alice...
...Colorado Democrat favors economic sanctions against countries that tolerate genital mutilation. But many African-born women who live in the U.S. are opposed. "Sanctions are stupid," says Dr. Asha Mohamud, a Somali-born pediatrician in Washington. "The practice is not being done intentionally to harm anyone. Mothers do it in good faith for their children. If you cut funding to these countries, you are hurting the people you want to protect. The goal should be to improve the economic and educational status of women...
Filled with inaccuracies and distortions, the editorial irresponsibly perpetuates falsehoods that not only harm the organization and individuals it misrepresents, but also confuses and misleads the Harvard community at large...
When I read David B. Lat's "Rebels without a Cause" (March 9), I have to admit, I agreed with the article's main contention. I, too, felt the minority protests over Junior Parents Weekend were ill-timed and probably did more harm than good for campus race relations. What bothered me was the fact that Mr. Lat resorted to a base and common denigration of Black and Latino students to buttress his argument...