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28 Harvard law professors condemn Harvard’s new Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures
The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | October 15, 2014 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 10/20/2014 9:43:43 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic

A statement published in the Boston Globe today:

As members of the faculty of Harvard Law School, we write to voice our strong objections to the Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures imposed by the central university administration and the Corporation on all parts of the university, including the law school.

We strongly endorse the importance of protecting our students from sexual misconduct and providing an educational environment free from the sexual and other harassment that can diminish educational opportunity. But we believe that this particular sexual harassment policy adopted by Harvard will do more harm than good.

As teachers responsible for educating our students about due process of law, the substantive law governing discrimination and violence, appropriate administrative decision-making, and the rule of law generally, we find the new sexual harassment policy inconsistent with many of the most basic principles we teach. We also find the process by which this policy was decided and imposed on all parts of the university inconsistent with the finest traditions of Harvard University, of faculty governance, and of academic freedom.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: harvard; sexualharassment

1 posted on 10/20/2014 9:43:44 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
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To: right-wing agnostic

Consent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f—u_puzhGs


2 posted on 10/20/2014 10:03:34 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: right-wing agnostic
I'm so glad, being 62 now, that I had my growing up time in the 60's and 70's. No "consent forms", no AIDS, the STDs were ones you could easily avoid by being reasonably careful, and people were mostly polite about it.

My daughter, on the other hand, is now 21. Thank God she's got a reasonable boyfriend. He's a good fellow, he loves her, and they're apparently serious.

I can't imagine what dating would be like these days; I'd probably give it up and enter a monastery.

3 posted on 10/20/2014 10:22:27 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: right-wing agnostic

Harvard is only looking out for the week and dumb females.

Isn’t that what all liberal institutions desire?


4 posted on 10/20/2014 10:37:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: right-wing agnostic
Steven Crowder on rape vs. "rape culture."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8b38mV6sio&feature=youtu.be

It's not easy to push back against this cr_p, and I applaud Crowder for his effort.

As for Harvard, I doubt that due process for male students matters much to leftist professors. Male students are considered proto-oppressors unless they have dark skin. Professor Jane Gallop (not from Harvard) once publicly announced, "graduate students are my sexual preference." That might better explain these Harvard complaints.

5 posted on 10/20/2014 11:42:08 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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POOR BABIES.

This is their chance to live under PURE LIBERALISM, what on earth could they be complaining about? The policy will make Harvard a complete UTOPIA now.

...and to think, people in the real world, for now (at least in theory) are still presumed innocent until proven guilty.


6 posted on 10/21/2014 4:05:56 AM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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