Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although some, like Endowment forDivestiture (E4D) chairman Jonathan E. Martin '88,say activism 20 years ago covered the same broadspectrum that it does today, others say recentactivism has edged away from foreign policy. Theysay activism is coming home, focusing on socialissues such as discrimination based on race, sex,or sexual orientation...
...Using its annual "awareness days" as aspringboard, GLSA organized efforts to counterwhat members described as pervasive homophobia oncampus. In addition to distributing informationand pins, GLSA submitted a 13-point proposal tothe College, along with results from a campus-widesurvey, asking it to retrain tutors and advisorson handling issues of sexual orientation. As withmany other challenges, the College responded bycreating another discussion committee, includingGLSA leaders, faculty and administrators...
Worse yet, when women do arrive, it seems Harvard is not treating them as fairly as it should be. In a suit filed by former Facilities and Maintenance worker Charlotte Walters, a jury found Harvard guilty of sexual discrimination on one count when it failed to discipline a worker who harassed Walters. On the faculty level, women shoulder a larger portion of the undesirable administrative burden than do their male counterparts--holding 31 percent of the head tutor jobs, although they comprise only 14 percent of the faculty eligible for these posts...
...general is dying out. She says students are working for social and political changes closer to home, where students can make a visible difference--like the one sought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, who has charged the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, with sexual discrimination...
...Boston jury this spring handed down its decision on the seven-year-old discrimination suit of a former Facilities Maintenance worker--Harvard was guilty of sexual discrimination. Neither side was happy with the outcome...