Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosovsky sent a letter earlier this month to Walcott and to B.U. saying that he "would be reluctant to approve his appointment to this Faculty in the future...
...professor, Derek Walcott, will complete the final two and a half years of a three-year appointment which began in January, said Patricia Craddock, chairman of the B.U. English Department...
...There still is no direct evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Professor Walcott." Craddock said, referring to complaints at both Harvard and B.U. that the prominent poet had harassed female students...
...Harvard complaint was filed by a freshman after an incident last fall, when Walcott served as a visiting professor here. The student's accusation that the professor made offensive verbal advances resulted in a formal admonishment of Walcott by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky...
...Walcott, who has published three collections of plays and whose six widely praised volumes of poetry include the recently issued The Fortunate Traveller, currently holds a visiting professorship at Boston University. He said that in view of the controversy, he had canceled plans to accept an honorary degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., last weekend, because "I didn't want to embarrass any institution." Meanwhile, although Harvard's Dean Lewis told the complaining coed that her charges "had merit" and that "formal action" had been taken, Walcott said he had heard nothing further from the university about...