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...Kouskalis’ this past year—and it’s not his only success. He sponsored a resolution calling on Harvard to include protections for “gender identity” in its nondiscrimination policy. Kouskalis says the previous policy, which protected “sexual orientation,” might not include adequate safeguards for transgender students and staff.The resolution passed 33 to zero. Two days later, Harvard announced that it had amended its policy.Both the co-ed rooming and the gender identity initiatives “were things that I worked...
...easy time to be gay and open about being gay.”LEGISLATING EQUALITYThe climax of the movement came when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences met in May of 1981 to vote on a proposal made by Colantuono to include sexual orientation in the Faculty’s non-discrimination policy.Nine of the University’s 11 faculties had already adopted such a policy, and the Law School had already thrown U.S. Navy recruiters off its campus in because of their refusal to agree to its own anti-discrimination rules.Huge numbers of students mobilized in support...
...That paradox—one where Skocpol has both stood inside and outside University circles and scholarly communities—began 25 years ago. Denied tenure from the Sociology Department in 1980, the Harvard-trained sociologist and political scientist filed a grievance against the University for sexual discrimination. But five years later, Skocpol agreed to return as a tenured professor to the same department that she had accused of discrimination. And two decades after that, she assumed the post of GSAS dean.The University faced a second challenge from another young female professor seeking to gain standing at Harvard within months...
Improvement in campus safety could be traced back to the agitation in 1980, but even today, it takes “the political capital” of actual sexual assaults to move Harvard to institute substantial changes...
...Booknotes” interview. At Harvard, Faludi concentrated in history and literature, and worked as managing editor of The Crimson.She reported on the official reprimand of a government professor for improper advances toward a freshman student in 1979, one year after Harvard instituted its first sexual harassment policy.The student was being “stonewalled” by the administration before the story was written, Faludi says, and the dean of the College personally requested that the story not run.“I realized at that point that you could wed journalism with feminism and actually make some social...