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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...
...Fortunate Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...
Such resignation recurs throughout the book: things are not going to get better, anywhere. But individual poems shimmer with exotic rhythms and flash with tropical colors. Walcott's circular pilgrimage is painful and moving; it also traverses some enchanting scenery...