Word: womanities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When a woman student enrolled in a small departmental course this fall required for her concentration, she looked forward to working closely with an eminent scholar. But in the first few weeks of class, she quickly came to realize that close contact with this professor might offend her personal dignity more than it would ever aid her academic growth...
...point of plunking his tray down next to her at breakfast. One morning he scrutinized her blouse front so obviously the student's sister, sitting at the same table, commented with distaste about his behavior later. Finally she heard the professor had tried to grab and kiss another woman in the course. She could sit by silently no longer; she reported him to her senior tutor, filed an official complaint with the University and dropped the course...
...women--one is the case cited above--have filed official complaints with the College under a procedure established a year ago. The women give a number of reasons for looking the other way. Some fear academic repercussions, or humiliation before skeptical administrators ("No one will believe me," one woman said") but many others are unaware the procedure exists...
Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology, who teaches courses on women's issues, questioned the administration's policy of keeping the cases strictly confidential if a woman student wants to talk. Keeping the case under wraps, she argues, protects only the Faculty. "Enough students have been hurt because Faculty members have stood up for each other," Hubbard says. To protect students, Hubbard believes "publicity and expose" are most effective. Disciplinary action, although sometimes necessary, is not as important as publicizing the cases because "spotlighting will eliminate the vast majority of the cases," Hubbard says...
...professor humiliated her by "coming on to me sexually in front of his peers." The student talked to Walzer and others. Word got gack to the professor, who falsely accused her of taking official faculty action against him and told others in the department she was an hysterical woman, not to be trusted. When she requested a recommendation from him--he is a key scholar in her field--he delayed until the last moment, then sent her a "very ugly" letter saying he had written the recommendation but reprimanding her for "mistreating...