But sexual harassment won't go away unless it's confronted. We are not immune to the problem here on campus. Now that I have said the unspeakable, this issue can be confronted. I am not accusing any individual.
Sexual harassment is a problem in our society, and campus life is a microcosm of society.
We have professors here who take pride in being masterful mentors to students they respect and admire. S exual harassment can, in fact, be in the form of a student's disrespect for a professor or another student. Sexual harassment does the greatest damage when there is an imbalance of power skewed in the favor of the one doing the harassing. Since a professor holds the power to impact the future of a student, students who are sexually harassed by professors may fear reporting it. Reporting the harassment could backfire, because false accusations based on revenge need to be considered too.