Word: tailhook
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Today, other top universities-not limited to UVA-have decided that they, too, must regulate the private affairs of their employees and pupils. Recently publicized case of sexual harassment, including the Navy's Tailhook scandal and University of Oklahoma Professor Anita Hill's allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, may have led to increased concern about sexual intimidation by authority figures...
...Pentagon claims that the TAILHOOK REPORT can't be released because there's no Secretary of the Navy in place to receive it. The full story: the Defense Department has a designated candidate for the Navy post but is holding back the public announcement in order to justify not releasing the Tailhook findings. The unreleased report on drunken aviators molesting women at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention is devastating: it's expected to recommend courts-martial for at least 12 senior Navy officers. Pentagon officials (with White House blessing) want to stall the findings until after March 23 -- when...
Assuming it's true, it is difficult to accept Helvey's excuse as justification for murder. If death is a legitimate punishment for sexual harassment, then the male naval officers who stripped, groped and molested women at the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas deserve...
...flyers of America's armed forces, these are especially difficult days. The end of the cold war has removed the rationale for decades of extreme vigilance; the much discussed "peace dividend" will probably translate into military layoffs, equipment cuts, withdrawal from foreign posts and general retrenchment in prestige. The Tailhook scandals of sexual harassment have toppled high-ranking Navy officers and exposed to public scorn a kind of sexism that many in the military still cherish as "virility" and "blowing off steam." The one great victory of recent years, Desert Storm, was so quick and total that it scarcely tested...
...academic courses and corporate training seminars has also served to raise awareness. "Everyone talks the talk these days," says Lynn Povich, editor in chief of Working Woman. "It's politically correct." When the Pentagon rebuked Navy investigators for failing to take seriously the charges of women molested during the Tailhook convention, it reinforced the notion that men who still "don't get it" proceed at their peril. "The Navy cover-up didn't work," says Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami School of Law. "The old idea that women who claim harassment are lying or making a mountain...