Word: hermassi
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Berkeley, a group of female sociology students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist...
...Hermassi was upset over the one-sided nature of the publicity. Though WOASH leaked his name to the press, none of his supposed victims has been identified. Said he: "I'm terrified." But WOASH does not believe Hermassi has suffered enough. "The suspension is a piddling result, an outrage," says Merle Weiner, 27, a sociology graduate student who is a leader of WOASH. The organization vows to re-open the fight if the professor returns to Berkeley and seeks tenure next fall...
...Berkeley, Elbaki Hermassi, assistant professor of sociology, was suspended without pay for one quarter for allegedly similar behavior dating since 1971. A record of the incident will also be placed in Hermassi's permanent personnel file, university officials said...
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