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...conducted on an iceberg tip in Pittsburgh, Ueberroth has been straining under what he termed a "great demand to do something Landis-like." Maybe to reassure the players of his sympathy, maybe to indicate that it has limits, he found a temperate quote from baseball's original commissioner, whose swift justice expelled the 1919 "Black Sox" fixers. "I want every player to feel I stand behind him," Judge Landis had asserted, and here Ueberroth's voice acquired an edge, "so long as he is on the square." He has suspended only the matter of punishment "for the time being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Larger and Darker By the Day | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...attempt to extend the protest to undergraduates, Elaine K. Swift, a sixth-year graduate student and member of the department's sexual harassment committee, distributed a three-page photocopied history of the Dominguez case to about 70 students attending an early lecture of one of his courses, Foreign Cultures 18, "Comparative Politics of Latin America...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Sexual harassment committee members Laporte and Swift also criticize the Government Department for not doing enough to protect sexual harassment victims and government graduate students in general from the fallout of such incidents...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...really don't have the right to play judge and jury and make a pariah out of someone who has by the University's procedures paid his dues," says Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) President Ann Pellegrini '86. Pellegrini says she opposed Swift's decision to distribute the leaflet about Dominguez...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...probably more widespread among other colleges than it would appear. Says Princeton's Danielson: "It's probably the tip of the iceberg, and it's hard to deal with icebergs when you can hardly see the tip."CrimsonIan M. RoseDuring the first week of classes, government graduate student Elaine Swift distributed handouts in front of Professor Jorge Dominguez's class describing the background on the Dominguez harassment case...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

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