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Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky has sent a letter to Derek Walcott, a visiting professor of English from Boston University last fall, "admonishing" him for an act of sexual harassment. He has sent a copy of the letter to the B U English department, stating that he "would be reluctant to approve his appointment to this Faculty in the future...
...decided if it would take any action Rosovsky's decision was based entirely on evidence at Harvard, she said, adding that it would necessarily have an effect on B U "At the moment, it seems to me that it's [an affair] between Professor Walcott and Harvard," she said...
Rosovsky wrote, however that he was "somewhat troubled," to learn that Walcott's actions "took place in the contest of what seems to have been your own willingness to establish with him some degree of personal intimacy. He added, "It might be worth reflecting on the effect your behavior might have had upon Professor Walcott...
...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...