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In response to the incident, then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky sent a letter to BU admonishing the then-55-year-old West Indian poet for his actions. Walcott retained his post at the University.
The incident came at a time when Harvard was revising its sexual harassment policy and response procedures, and was one of several high-profile harassment allegations in the surrounding years.
Several professors and administrators who were involved with Walcott’s case were contacted by The Crimson say that while they appreciated the fact that the harassment cases prompted a change in policy, they do not remember the Walcott incident particularly clearly.
Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, also a visiting BU professor of English at Harvard at the time, says that she largely remembered the incident only insofar as the Times had reported it.
And Higginson Professor of English Literature Larry D. Benson, who was the chair of the English department in the latter half of 1982, says that the incident “wasn’t anything that left a deep impression on me.”