Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concern about the University's treatment of harassment intensified a month later when, in late October, the results of a University-wide sexual harassment survey showed that more than one-third of campus females felt they had experienced some form of sexual harassment. Of that number, however, a scant 15 percent discussed the matter with a University official and virtually none filed formal complaints. Many respondents cited ignorance of grievance procedures or a perceived lack of University concern as reasons for not filing complaints against their harassers...
...attention from critics of the arts. However, fashion should certainly be considered an art form because it is definitely an expression of the aesthetic impulses of individuals or social groups. Furthermore, since individual designers of clothing have evolved from the role of modest, nineteenth century private couturiers to world-wide dictators of the haute couture, the work of the great twentieth century fashion artists like Christian Dior must be considered as art in the fullest sense of the term...
...brought several plects of dramatic news. A new dean of the Faculty was selected, an event which happens only about once a over a decade. The results of a campus-wide survey on sexual harassment poked a hole in the air of complacency that has gripped Harvard on the issues. The publication of the Pl Esa Club's newsletter, which contained sexist and degrading language, galvansized campus outrage...
...matter much more credibility than University officials had conceded in the past. Not only did Harvard agree to pay back the money, but it also agreed to accept a new standard of monitoring its research. The new system--which required an overhaul of Harvard's accounting procedures--will have wide implica- tions for the way professors here and elsewhere handle the millions of dollars in research conducted under federal auspices yearly...
...most immediate was the question of House diversity, which has been perplexing administrators ever since surveys several years ago started showing wide disparities in academic and racial composition in the Houses. Another report was issued this year, confirming the worst fears of officials...