Word: walcott
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...student filed a charge of sexual harassment with the College, and after an investigation the College decided that the student's complaint "had met." Indeed Marlyn M Lewis '70, assistant dean of the College, wrote to the student that she spoke to the professor involved. Derek Walcott, a visiting professor of poetry from Boston University last fall and that "he acknowledged that you had described his conduct accurately." It seemed that all that was yet to come was the announcement of the punishment...
...chilling deterrent effect such publicity would have on future cases of sexual harassment. A crucial factor in discouraging crime is the presumption that it will be punished. As long as the punishment for sexual harassment is kept secret, it will deter no one Harvard could be holding up Walcott as an example, censuring him, and forbidding him any future affiliation with Harvard, as a stunning example to all professors teaching fellows, and administrators that molestation of students will be severely dealt with instead, it quietly sticks by this member of the "family...
...Walcott case, for example, a Black campus leader recently charged the College with racism because the only two publicized cases of sexual harassment at Harvard involved white women complaining against Black professors. Given the minute portion of the Faculty that is Black, the student charged that there are many more complaints against white professors, but that in these cases the College gets tough with the students, and makes it clear that an important career is on the line. While such a charge of institutional racism in the College's dealings with sexual harassment cases remains unsubstantiated, only dealing openly with...
...involved has been fairly dealt with. She has suffered emotional difficulties, bouts of depression, academic problems, and has had her freshman year unalterably tainted. While the College asserts that it has "taken formal action," the student involved is correct in stating that she cannot name one way in which Walcott seems to have been punished by the College Indeed, because of the College's secrecy, the author of a highly laudatory profile in the New York Times Magazine section, which appeared after the resolution of the case, had no way of knowing of Walcott's indiscretion...
...long as Harvard promises that mum is the word on cases of sexual harassment, open season will remain on women undergraduates Indeed, the only lesson a potential harasser can draw from the Walcott case is that the College will stand by him steadfastly, and that it is his victim who will have to ask anonymity to hide the shame of the entire incident Harvard clings tightly to its tradition of imbuing its students with knowledge--sometimes even in the biblical sense...