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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Michele Gillespie
Universities issue rules to stop sexual harassement
Recent pressure from the New
York Civil Liberties Union, the
Cornell Women's Caucus, and the
Cornell campus newspaper, The
Daily Sun, has forced Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York to
revise its system of hand ling sexual
harassment complaints.
Originally, several administra-
tive offices shared responsibility
for addressing grievances, but
under the revised system, the
Office of Equal Opportunity has
final responsibility for all sexual
harassment problems.
Cornell's administrator for Title
IV (the federal regulation that
prohibits discrimination by sex in
education), Ann Roscoe,
explained, "The revised system
resulted because (we) felt that
students didn't know where to turn
if harassed."
Because responsibility for
handling of complaints was shared
by various university offices,
inconsistent implementation of
Cornell's harassment policy
occurred.
Under Cornell's old system, the
university found identifying repeat
offenders and ensuring uniform
sanctions exceedingly difficult.
The Daily Sun published
complaints by the New York Civil
Liberties Union and the Cornell
Women's Council who were
"dissatisfied" with the harassment
policy and goaded Cornell's
administration into taking positive
action.
The Princeton University
Council's Rights and Rules
Committee recently proposed a
five-page draft which clearly
defines, for the first time ever,
university policy on sexual
harassment complaints by
students.
This proposal labels harass-
ments as "unwelcome advances or
verbal or physical abuse of a sexual
nature that demeans, intimidates,
threatens, or injures an
individual."
After a myriad of complaints
was placed against the ambiguity
of the university's policy,
Princeton Provost Rudestine
responded last November with a
memorandum on sexual
harassment. The new proposal,
according to Rudenstine, defines
the issue more explicitly than the
original memo.
"It's more comprehensive, and
it's in print," explained Rudestine.
"The memorandum I sent around
dealt mostly with professional
conduct, conditions in the
workplace...! think there was a
sentence or two in my memo that
dealt with similar situations
among students."
The proposal now addresses
harassment in all aspects of the
university community and not just
student-faculty harassment.
Rights and Rules Committee
chairman Professor Robert
Stengel believes major changes in
the proposal unlikely.
"Sexual harassment is not
treated very well in the (rights,
rules, responsibility) booklet.
Students, in part, were lookingior
assurances that the university is
concerned with the issue," said
Stengel.
The new guidelines would
designate several persons as
"points of contact" to deal with
complaints and concerns about
harassement. This system retains
many characteristics of the
outdated Cornell system of
handling harassment complaints.
But Rudenstine asserts that the
problems Cornell faced with the
old system will not affect
Princeton because of the diversity
of the two universities' natures.
"Cornell is a very large
university with different colleges
and different faculty. Princeton is
much smaller with one college and
one faculty," he said.
In fact, Rudestine believes
Princeton's system will encourage
individuals to discuss their
experiences by providing
counselors with diverse
backgrounds.
Nonetheless, Lila Karp, director
of the Women's Center, said that a
more centralized system would be
superior to Princeton's current
arrangement.
"I, myself, had hoped for one
designated person," Karp
revealed.
* * *
At the University of Houston,
assistant provost Quin Tani Lila
knows of only one sexual
harassment case filed in the past
five years.
The procedure for handling
harassment is established in the
UH faculty handbook and appears
most applicable to student-faculty
harassment, not harassment
between students.
The harassed student must first
approach the chairman of the
suspected faculty offender's
department. If the student remains
unsatisfied with the resolution
discussed there, he or she may then
meet with the dean. The student's
last recourse is the provost's office
where steps may be taken to
chastise the offender. The usual
procedure includes placing a letter
of reprimand permanently in the
faculty member's file.
Although no student has ever
filed a complaint of sexual
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harassment against another
student at UH, the procedure
would follow the same guidelines
as student-faculty harassment.
Quin Tani Lla commented, "I
am sure we have had more
incidents of harassment by a
faculty member towards a student
than filed but...And I don't know
of any complaint lodged by a
student against another student
though I know such harassment
takes place."
The University of Texas also
maintains a standard policy
regarding sexual harassment but
defines harassment solely as
"academic decisions" than affect a
student due to submission or
rejection of sexual advances or
requests for sexual favors.
To file a formal complaint, a
student must submit a written and
signed statement to the assistant
dean of students or the particular
faculty member's department
chairman. The investigation and
resolution of the complaint follows
the same procedures used for
academic grievances. Students
may then be required to recount
their experiences to a variety of
other people.
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allthe support /
oh, mike, im sowor
ried! what if they
sew nem off id jail'' now,
that would only leave mom
mb and your brother it's
to run the farm! /
no, no, you cant/
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mom, who
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your father thought you three
mould really make something
of this place, mikby. he thought
you'd be the most successful
farmers in the whole county.
that was his dream for you.
mikby, if they put henry
in jail, there'll be no one
left to run the farm.
you'rb off at college, and
your younger brother pybs
his hair purple and stays
out aunight
beuergo
help your
mom, how
ims has
UNCLE PRESS BeUJY BEEN
FOR HIS SEN- VYING HIS
sigh. -
mom?
TENC1N6,
DEAR
HAIR PURPLE
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i cant make up my mind what
1 should wear to my sentencing,
mikby. if you were the judge,
what would make a better im-
pression, a grey suitor a white
one7 - /
its hart) to say, uncle
henry. if you wear the
white suit, i might con -
awe you werent taking
your conviction seriously.
\
on the other hand, if
you look like you're on
your my to a funeral,
i might think you were
trying to con me
cs x
how/wot a mix ?
what if i wore
a dark leisure
sim and a white 47 yaj-
belt? \
henry, even allowing for all the
pre-trial publicity, i think you
got a pretty fair.trjal. un-
fortunately for you, that young
i ' da. over there put
together. one he£k
of a case
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now, we both know you dfdnt do
anything that hasnt been going
on arounp here tor years, but
the fact is you got caught yes.
i . 'and justice must sir. i
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derstand,
HENRY?
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henry, get
your tail
up here
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GOOD. NOLL' objection,
GIVE me your.
YOUR WRIST. HONOR
mi
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CONCENTRATE PIPE. DOWN
H)TTH ALL THIS AND LET HIM
RACKE T FINISH SEN
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iwant you w volunteer
towopkonbdayaweek
on the county road crew
until they finish that
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goes up past
ed turners
your honor
HENRy, SEEING HOW ryfqmm
YOU'RE A HRST-VME
OFFENDER, I'M G0IN6 OBJECTS
TO SUSPEND YOUR SEN- yn/jn '
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CONDITION!
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day would .wndays
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> I TELL YOU, Ml KEY, I JUST
KNEW THAT JUDGE WASNT
GOING TO THROW A FELLOW
OKJE TO THE WOLVES' HEE.,
HEE! I JUST WISH I HAD
A PICTURE OF THAT
PAIS FACEL
now, henry, that
sounds too much UKE
gloa ting to me you
should be giving thanks
for your good fortune
instead' \
sa
you're- rjght. daisy.
the good lord was
looking after me
today. thanks amen
for your help. /
big guy i
DID YOU
hee, henryi
PA S FACE-
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Grob, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1982, newspaper, February 26, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245495/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.