Word: sahadi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December, Helene Sahadi York '83 reported to Judith B. Walzer, assistant dean of the college for co-education, that Kilson tried to kiss her on the lips as she was attempting to leave his office after seeking advice on a paper topic for his course...
Since the panel, three students have come to Walzer's office to talk about sexual harassment. Normally, only a handful of students with such complaints comes to see Walzer each year. But since Helene Sahadi York '83 filed a formal complaint against Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, this winter--and Dean Rosovsky formally reprimanded Kilson--more students have ventured out to seek advice and redress...
...Kilson, alleging that he had tried to kiss her on the lips. Kilson denied the charge but admitted kissing her on the forehead as a spontaneous gesture of affection. He was formally reprimanded, the first known action in a sexual harassment case at the university. Said his accuser, Helen Sahadi York of Brooklyn: "I just saw him as patronizing and somewhat sexist-he calls every woman a gal-then it was very obvious when he kissed me." York insists the kiss was "psychologically damaging in itself," and registered her complaint "out of feminist consciousness and to test the system...