Discusses sexual harassment on college campuses. Focuses on harassing behavior that stems from power relationships and harassing behavior among peers. Describes how Cornell University is addressing these problems. (ABL)

Uses discourse analysis to display the interplay between resistance and domination using one man's description (in interviews and in a newspaper article) of sexual harassment and his attempts at redress. Reveals how the articulation of resistance becomes oppressive and the articulation of repression offers resistance. (SR)

Offers a history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Racial Harassment Policy since its inception six years ago. The paper first details the milieu from which this measure emerged and then describes the university's effort to preserve it in the face of unfavorable judicial rulings. Seeks to provide insight into how one institution…

Photographs shown to 98 male and 102 female students illustrated provocative versus nonprovocative clothing on both men and women. Subjects rated provocative clothing more likely to induce sexual harassment. Females who had not experienced harassment rated those wearing nonprovocative clothing unlikely to be harassed. (SK)

Free discussion of conflicting views is essential to the university's educational mission. Recent sexual and racial harassment policy decisions by some universities are equivocal and ambiguous and can adversely affect free speech and expression. Existing professional conduct codes are sufficient to protect students and faculty from intimidating or…

Examined aspects of sexual harassment on campus. Findings from 716 students revealed that 10% of male students and 24% of female students had been victims of some form of sexual harassment by faculty members. Forty percent of instructors guilty of harassment were graduate teaching assistants or other part-time faculty. (Author/NB)

Identifies the growing problems of sexual harassment on college campuses. Outlines current institutional policies and legal debates concerning this issue. Provides firsthand insight of one administrator's experiences and thoughts on the process of adopting and working with a sexual harassment policy. (HB)

Reviews the history of Title IX and the various liability standards adopted by the federal courts. Provides a critical review of the "Gebser v. Lago Vista" decision and concludes that the Court's institutional liability standard is that actual knowledge is the most appropriate and legally sound standard of liability for…

Examined the perceptions of sexual harassment of male and female college students and perceptions of perpetrator and victim traits. Results from 296 male and 295 female college students indicate that women see the presented scenario as more sexually harassing than males did and that both men and women were influenced by perpetrator attractiveness.…

Presents a consideration of sexual harassment laws that are intended to underscore the variety of heuristic possibilities offered by inquiry into communication-based laws, for both communication administrators and educators. Concludes that communication administration, communication education, and evolving communication-based legal standards and…

This article investigates sexual harassment issues by means of an in depth literature review and by analyzing and comparing the sexual harassment policies of selected universities in South Africa. Various alternatives that categorize sexual harassment are proposed in order to form a clear perspective on the different viewpoints that currently…

Evaluates definitions of sexual harassment adopted by undergraduate institutions for use in grievance procedures and policy statements and analyzes their purpose, range, and effect. Explores ways of improving these definitions and suggests that a definition must be flexible and should reflect the victim's perspective. (Author/MJL)

Focuses on the conditions, results, and both personal and institutional consequences of sexual harassment. Provides ethical behavior guidelines for instructors. (PD)

Develops and assesses the validity of a self-report measure of sexual harassment proclivities in men. Demonstrates the validity of the scale by its moderate correlations with attitude measures relevant to sexual harassment, its nonsignificant correlation with the need to provide socially desirable responses, and by showing that potential victims…

Two hearing boards' finding that a tenured professor's instructional remarks and actions constituted sexual harassment resulted in the filing of a federal lawsuit against the university. Discusses sexual harassment, reviews the most pertinent facts of "Silva," and analyzes the judge's preliminary injunction and summary judgment ruling on…