November 28, 2008

New Lessons in Dealing With Sexual Harassment

By ANN H. FRANKE

Several recent incidents have brought national attention to issues involving male professors and sexual-harassment policies on campuses.

In the first situation, Mark Weiger, a professor of oboe at the University of Iowa, died by suicide this month. According to the news coverage, in the week before his suicide, a former graduate student had named him as a defendant, along with the university, in a sexual-harassment lawsuit. The allegations against him included making inappropriate

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