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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, the findings of a survey on sexual harassment revealed alarmingly high percentages of sexual coercion of women by male professors and graduate students, and well as undergraduate peer harassment. The attitudes expressed in the Pi Eta newsletter are an illustration of the crudest end of this. When women are regarded by men not as autonomous individuals but as sexual objects, they are also viewed as either willing or deserving recipients of insults, manipulation, and forced sexual relations This is at the heart of both the professor accosting his students and the final club circular cajoling its members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Pi Eta | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...tried to keep pace with the smoothly-oiled Republican machine, but with considerably less success. The committee has thus far raised far less than the GOP's $35 million, and several campaign officials blaim the lag on peer management in the DNC camp. These critics point to the $2.8 million loss on a highly publicized telethon last September, which DNC Chairman Charles T. Manatt and either committee members estimated would set a record $10 to $20 million. And a December fundraising tour raised barely half of its projected $2.5 million gain...

Author: By George S. Canellos, | Title: The Buck Starts Here | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

Only five times before has the world tried to peer through the Kremlin's wall of secrecy to witness a changing of the guard.* The sixth transition, which brought Chernenko to the forefront, was announced at 1:57 p.m. Moscow time last Monday. It was as full of imponderables as any that had gone before. Why, for example, had the tiny circle of men who rule the Soviet Union risked another short-term regime and picked Chernenko, 72, the oldest man ever selected to hold the country's most important position? How would that choice affect the lives?and indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko: Moving to Center Stage | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...rather than to the thousands of 18 to 23-year-olds at Harvard. Dean fox and Dr. Wacker tell us that "alcohol is a drug," that "the view that drunkenness is a measure of maturity is misguided and dangerous," and that "potentially lethal drinking often occurs in college under peer pressure." Certainly the administration must think we are children, not citizens old enough to vote and pay taxes I think most students would agree with me when I say that students here are familiar with the dangers of alcohol abuse, just as we know about drug abuse and the dangers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcohol | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

...callers interested in "Peer comments" on Spence are being referred to a group of eight faculty members including Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Lamont University Professor John T. Dunlop, and Stone Professor of International Trade Richard E. Caves, said Lord...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Massive News Effort Undertaken To Spread Bok's Announcement | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

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