Word: walcott
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...Several professors and administrators who were involved with Walcott’s case were contacted by The Crimson say that while they appreciated the fact that the harassment cases prompted a change in policy, they do not remember the Walcott incident particularly clearly...
...article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Walcott was again accused of sexual harassment by a student at his own university. According to The Chronicle, Nicole Niemi, a graduate student in BU’s playwriting program, claimed that Walcott threatened to keep a play she wrote from being produced unless she had sex with him. BU officials could not be reached for comment on the case...
...Since the 1982 incident, Walcott has returned to Harvard’s campus twice. In 2003, he gave a reading of his works at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of African-American history and culture. In 2005, Walcott came to the Institute of Politics for an event called “Season of Laureates: Readings in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Wole Soyinka,” cosponsored by the Du Bois Institute...
...Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., the Fletcher University professor at Harvard and director of the DuBois Institute, said that he had no knowledge of the accusations against Walcott, who is one of three African American winners of the Nobel Prize for literature...
...look forward to welcoming him back to speak at Harvard, I hope,” he said of Walcott, “in the very near future...