Word: weiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew at the time, vaguely, that there was something subtly wrong with that reaction and two chapters later I found out exactly what it was The authors, Billie Wright Dzeich and Linda Weiner, two administrators at the University of Cincinnati, are more than just clear thinking, reasonable and forceful, they are also comprehensive. What I had thought was a personal and idiosyncratic reaction, they have identified as a syndrome and proceeded to debunk as one of the many tangled and self destructive myths associated with the messy issue of sexual harassment...
...figures and examples of harassment, it also scrutinizes the structure of universities and the academic life style in general to try to determine him so seemingly shocking an occurrence--a professor coercing a student with the use of sexual pressure--can in fact be so pervasive. As Dzeich and Weiner understand, it is not enough simply to cry. "Faculty harassers are evil, universities are callous--this must be stopped!" One must try to root out the problem through understanding...
...expressing something deeper than just paternalistic bias. To some extent, he is also implying that harassment is somehow "natural"--a weakness which the faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner show how the pervasive myths about college women's beauty, voluptuousness and often sexual looseness, in fiction and is much academic office chatter, help give professors this impression that the young women in their classes are somehow there for the taking. In another compelling formulation, the authors take account not only...
...THIS IS NOT TO SAY that The Lecherous Professor is compassionate towards sexual harassers. Far from it--but the very strength of the book is the manner in which Dzeich and Weiner restrain their tone to one of reasoned rational analysis, letting the words of victims and the stories of cold reactions to the scandals within universities create a sense of outrage on their own. Their stories run the gamut from verbal harassment to threats of assault. One woman from a community college reported...
Cimino is still partially paralyzed, but improving "slightly" in Westchester County Medical Center at Valhalla, N.Y., according to Betsy Weiner, a public relations officer at the center. Whether she will remain hospitalized over Christmas is uncertain...