But the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York s recent decision in the lawsuit against the State University of New York at New Paltz offers a very real lesson on sexual harassment. And it s one your professors and all other administrators should know. Conduct creating a hostile environment can be sexual harassment even without a request for sex. Hayut said Young s comments, which came during the height of the White House scandal, were made in front of her classmates. The court agreed that it was a hostile environment and permitted Hayut s sexual harassment claims against the institution and several university administrators to proceed.
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