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...University of Connecticut has decided not to rescind a prestigious lecturing invitation to Derek A. Walcott, a former Harvard visiting professor who was reprimanded last year for sexually harassing a female freshman...
...UConn English department committee announced yesterday that it had unanimously decided last month to endorse the Poetry Committee's decision to offer Walcott the invitation...
...committee added in the statement that it made the unanimous decision in the belief that all the issues in the case involving Professor Walcott at Harvard University have been resolved and that none of the parties contemplates taking any further actions...
...Walcott is scheduled to recite selections from his own work and to award poetry prizes to Uconn students as the Stevens lecturer...
...Walcott case first became public last spring when a female freshman charged that Walcott had made improper advances to her in a poetry class. Dean of the Faculty Hentry Resovky ruled that the charge "had merit and informed Walcott's permanent employer, Boston University, of the incident Walcott denied the charges...