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...perfected this technique in the later 1970s when leading a drive against an academic survey conducted by two sociology professors, Seymour M. Lipset and Everett C. Ladd. The study, to rank the nation's leading schools in a variety of disciplines, asked some 9000 professors to complete a questionnaire which Lang condemned as biased and overly subjective. He wrote to the authors, mobilized opposition among colleagues, protested to national education bodies about the study and found himself refereeing mail campaigns on both sides of the issue...
...coordination possible given the segmentation that Harvard fosters, given that there is no union to represent staff members as a whole, and given perhaps substantial differences in socioeconomic class and self-perceptions between students and staff? Uniting people is hard but not impossible, since, as Walter's lawyer Holly Ladd puts it, "It may be easier for women to get together--there is a feeling of commonality. The same shit happens to women anytime, no matter what age or class. Sexual harassment is primarily a women's issue...
...wait for staff to organize themselves, but could help facilitate an organization at the staff level by sponsoring joint meetings. There should be a group which brings people together who have experienced harassment for emotional support, to share information, and to form a political alliance. And students, suggests Ladd, could call the UAW union--which has been trying to gain collective-bargaining recognition from Harvard. But, Ladd cautions, students should go "to staff, not as superiority intelligent students, but asking for help." She thinks there could be cooperation between all women at Harvard. And there needs...
...complaints because they feared reprisals. "I think men can often band together when one of them is threatened," wrote one woman graduate student in answer to the questionnaire. "The uniquely powerful position they hold over people just starting careers makes me hesitant about ever reporting sexual harassment." Says Holly Ladd, a lawyer for one woman complainant: "What we have here is gender harassment. We're not necessarily talking about sex in the sense of one person's trying to be physical with another. We are talking about an unwillingness on Harvard's part to do anything about...
...collegiate phrase, "highly sought after." The recruiting process provided Southern Author Willie Morris a hefty new book on sports and sociology, well titled The Courting of Marcus Dupree. U.C.L.A. brought Marcus to Los Angeles to visit the mayor and make the acquaintance of Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd. The University of Oklahoma invited him to place a telephone call from an airplane. "They say I'm 41,000 feet in the air somewhere over Oklahoma," Dupree, full of wonder, told his high school coach. "It seems like I'm almost to the moon...