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Although department officials and graduate students on the department's sexual harassment committee mutually condemn sexual misconduct, the students charge--with some validity--that the department has refused to protect them--or to let them protect themselves--against the fallout of sexual harassment cases...
...summer of 1983 for sexually harassing a female junior faculty member in the department and last year took an unexpected leave of absence. In February of this year, Harvard announced that Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. would resign as a result of an allegation of sexual misconduct. The two cases follow a 1979 case in which another tenured faculty member in the department was reprimanded for sexually harassing a member of the Class of '83, according to reports at the time...
...issue, more specifically, is that of "disassociation." Certain graduate students argue that, for five years after a finding of sexual misconduct by a faculty member, they should not have to take courses from such instructors nor face them on an exam board...
During the last two weeks, the Graduate Student Council, Women in Science, and the Radcliffe Union of Students have all formally endorsed a proposal upholding a student's right to disassociation on the grounds of moral objection to sexual harassment. The University defines such misconduct as "unwanted sexual behavior such as physical contact or verbal comments or suggestions, which adversely affects the working or learning environment of an individual...
Sylvia Maxfield, a fifth-year graduate student, was once a student of Dominguez. She says she filed a sexual misconduct complaint against him, charging that he had both sexually harassed her and tried to pit her against the junior professor whose sexual harassment complaint resulted in Dominguez's discipline. Harvard as a matter of policy does not discuss specific cases or their settlements (Harvard's announcement of the Hibbs resignation was an extraordinary exception...