Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laura Gordon Fisher, senior tutor of Eliot House, says she has handled several cases, observing although she hasn't had very many cases, "that doesn't mean it doesn't go on." As a senior tutor for seven years, Fisher recalls a time when "one didn't hear very much about it, at least not in the senior tutor's office." Fisher says she believes setting up an official channel is useful, if only because it establishes that sexual harassment is a recognized problem...
...student cited in the introduction, whose professor harassed her at breakfast and in class, received no encouragement from her senior tutor when she turned to him for help...
When she told him she wanted to drop the course, he asked her how she would explain a withdrawal notation on her transcript to graduate school interviewers. She replied she would tell them exactly what happened; the senior tutor looked skeptical and challenged, "Don't you think you are standing on shaky ground...
...inappropriate for you to interject the specifics of your 'special circumstances' in future discussions within the University"--worried the student. She feared the letter--an official part of her University records--implied psychological problems on her part rather than a straightforward case of sexual harassment. She asked her senior tutor to rewrite it, making it more specific, but he refused. The letter, she says, gave her the chilling feeling that she was being hushed up;she eventually spoke to the head tutor of her department and other women anyway...
...less clear cut. Professors' requests to "go for coffee" are often no more than a simple gesture of friendship, a desire to know students on an informal basis. In these cases, most students resolve the problem by either speaking directly to the professor or negotiating through the senior tutor...