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...their graduation, the class of 1984 left Harvard struggling with what seemed to be a growing problem: year after year, more women at the University were reporting incidents of sexual harassment.Just months after the administration drafted a new policy that outlined procedures for reporting incidents of sexual misconduct, the University publicized for the first time that it would “reprimand” Government Professor Martin L. Kilson for allegedly attempting to kiss a freshman woman during his office hours.Over the next four years, the Kilson case would open a pandora’s box. Two other incidents involving...
...have your values and preferences and I have mine—we have no objective, external standard against which to measure them and ultimately disprove one and confirm the other. According to this regime, for example, sexual mores, no matter how perverse, are matters of indifference: to think otherwise is intolerant and judgmental. This principle extends to matters academic also, as Harvard does not dare distinguish with regard to intrinsic worth the study of the Classics from that of Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
...supported. This year proved that Harvard University Health services are capable of both handling a crisis well, but also cutting back on necessary services. UHS handled the Swine Flu scare adequately with constant notifications and small steps to prevent infection. It wasn’t so adept at handling sexual health, however, as Harvard ended of anonymous HIV testing program. In a peculiar move the University moved backwards in its support of sexual health and awareness. The question of recognition for the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps also worked its way into the conversation this year. University policy still states...
...branch of the Lohias for the whole company. There is the patriarch, whose dignified conduct leaves him helpless in the face of the aggressive global marketplace; his dissolute nephew, rebelling after years of frustrated obedience; and his daughter, a young woman becoming keenly aware of her sexual power. Such drama could easily veer into soap opera, but Chowdhury uses his experience as a business journalist to turn the machinations of finance into the stuff of suspense, elegantly connecting the shadowy moneylenders of Mumbai to the gleaming towers of Hong Kong and New York City. In one set piece...
...from California who worried about looking like and fitting in with East Coast private school kids.In those days, the schools of thought that ushered in 60s radicalism and Marglin’s own left-ward turn—feminism, the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements, and the sexual revolution—were nascent as ideologies.Students at Harvard during the late 50s consistently said that political engagement on campus was virtually nonexistent, with students expressing more concern over the closing of the popular bar Cronin’s to make room for the Holyoke Center than the absence of black...