CNN March Seventh, 2018 "Harvard professor retires amid allegations of sexual misconduct" Laura Ly This article is about the ex Harvard professor, Jorge l. Dominguez, who retired, but is still on "administrative leave" from Harvard University after many different women stepped forward and told their stories of Dominguez trying many different sexual advances. He started as a Harvard professor back in 1979 and has continued to work there till very recently. The allegations of sexual misconduct started back in the year he began working at the university, and more and more women came forward each year with their own stories. Dominguez is under investrigation for this misconduct against several women. He had stepped down from his position not only at the university, but also at the "Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies". There have been so many stories of sexual misconduct, he ended up deciding to retire. Except now that the professor is under investigation, he is only allowed to be on administrative leave, this will not affect the investigation in any way or form according to the officials administrating the investigation. One of the vicitims to Dominguez's advantages was Terry Karl, a woman who is now a professor at Standford but who previouly worked as a junior professor at Harvard. During Karl's time at Harvard and working with Dominguez, she had to file many different complaints to innapropriate touching and other attempted advances, those complaints resulted in Dominguez being proven guilty to the misconduct. Yet, even after proven guilty, he only was "barred from administrative esponsibilities for three years, Dominguez was allowed to remain at the university and went on to hold various positions of power, including vice provost for international affairs." How will those actions stop him from doing it again? It didn't change anything, and through out the year he was accused of continiously doing it yet no other major actions took place to stop it. The Me Too movement was something that really helped connect all these women who shared the same experiences with Dominguez. Without diving too deep, the #MeToo movement was something that began in October of 2017. Women came forward with their stories of being sexually harassed and it helped show how big the problem of sexual misconduct all around the world. This event also helped conect the women who were victims of Dominguez, and together they're going to hopefully get the justice they all deserve. He was proven guilty in 1983, yet Dominguez was still allowed to work again at Harvard? To me, it is extremely disapointing that Harvard would even let Dominguez back, and even more disapointing that this status on the campus and in the Harvard community would only grow. Terry Karl, the woman mentioned in the previous few paragraphs, had done everythinng she could to make sure that nobody else fell prey under Dominguez. Yet, he still somehow managed to be a respectable figure on campus even with the years of sexual misconduct and allegations. It doesn't make sense to me that such a good college like Harvard would let something like this happen. The only way to stop Dominguez from assulting any women in the future would've been to fire him completely. Sexual misconduct is never okay, and what does that reflect on Harvard? The students obviously felt really uncomfortable around him, especially the ones who had come foward, and they deserved better than what he got in 1983. There should've been more harsh repercussions for his digusting actions. It's unfair, and continues to be unfair. I only hope that this time more appropriate actions will take place for the things he'd done over thirty years in a row. I am now going to comment on Bre and Simon C's blogs. bjones2020.weebly.com/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/harvard-professor-retires-amid-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/index.html
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Breanna
3/7/2018 01:19:31 pm
Do you think this is a case of sexism or misogyny? I don't like the fact that Harvard took him back.
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