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...faculty members, particularly Chairman Robert D. Putnam, have spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to rid the department of this sexual harassment legacy. Committees have been established, counselors have been designated, firm statements condemning such abuse of power have been issued. In fact, Putnam admits, some professors criticize him for spending too much time on the sexual harassment issue, which he inherited when he became chairman last fall...
...Putnam vehemently denies the charges, saying, "The department is not in the business of giving or taking legitimacy from anyone. The assignment of courses to professors is done purely on the basis of the expertise of instructors, particularly in the case of field seminars...
...Putnam says the department's three other comparative politics specialists would not have been able to accommodate Gov 2105 into their academic schedules this term...
...result, graduate students say, at least five graduate students who came to study with Dominguez have since arranged to study with Dominguez have since arranged to study elsewhere to avoid further contact with the professor. Putnam has not been able to produce any specific statistics, but has confirmed that the number of graduate students in Latin American politics has dropped since 1983. It is unclear how many graduate students now study Latin American politics...
...scholars interviewed say they know of no one who has been dissuaded from coming to Harvard for fear of sexual harassment. Putnam says he, too, heard no such reasons when he asked potential female graduate students why they gave Harvard the thumbs-down...