Word: weiner
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...There is no consensus in higher education that this is an important issue."--Billie Dziech and Linda Weiner, The Lecherous Professor...
...soon-to-be released book, called The Lecherous Professor, is a comprehensive examination of sexual harassment on college campuses. Although authors Billie Dziech and Linda Weiner, both college professors, focus their comments on the harassment of women students by male faculty members, they also discuss issues not often linked to sexual harassments. Ultimately, the authors conclude that the power structure of colleges, myths about women students and the psychological development of male professors all contribute to the incidence of harassment...
According to Dziech and Weiner, male faculty members often challenge harassment complaints, claiming that the student may have provoked an advanced or misinterpreted an innocent gesture. However, the book rejects claims that harassment is difficult to distinguish: "It is not, in the vast majority of cases, ambiguous behavior." Referring to cases described in the book, the authors go on to state that harassment "is grabbing a student's breast or lying on the floor and staring up her skirt...
Drawing upon the cases of sexual harassment at these universities and others, Dziech and Weiner say that the vaguely defined structure of the university setting" [helps] to explain why sexual harassment flourishes in an environment where many people least expect it." While a definite power structure does exist, they add, areas of authority are ill-defined. The authors also claim that confusion about the proper "mission" of education further blurs the lines of professional student-faculty contact...
...doing the play in French and in our common room as opposed to English and on a normal stage because this will attract more people," explained co-director Randy Weiner '87. "These two facts will also raise exponentially the effect of the play...