INTRODUCTION
I agree that sexual harassment as of today’s generation is considered to be as one of the controversial issue as of today’s generation involving ordinary people that will have a sense of substantial impact to the lives of individuals and how the society is responding to the issue according to legal procedures as well as the principles of law in giving importance to the issue for the betterment of such country and its territory and the people that governs the law within the embodiment of truth and justice to all mankind involved. It involves a matter of a civil suit against the supposed alleged individual as handled by the law of the state that he was likely to commit acts of sexual harassment and invasions of privacy against others basically to the opposite sex under their supervision according to the premises of the suit. Thus, in speaking of sexual harassment as it implies an informal complaint and formal grievance procedure, both of which merit action by any institution and that the implemented policy regarding the issue could adhere to the failure to communicate with the people claiming they’ve been harassed. Moreover, UC is dedicated in generating and upholding a community wherein persons participating in their programs and activities can work and learn together in an atmosphere free of sexual harassment and exploitation as they will respond effectively to certain reports of sexual harassment and will take appropriate action in order to prevent and correct that violates such policy.
DEFINITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects a person’s employment or education, unreasonably interferes with a person’s work or educational performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or learning environment. In the interest of preventing sexual harassment, the University will respond to reports of any such conduct. ( February 10, 2006) Sexual harassment may include incidents between any members of the University community, including faculty and other academic appointees, staff, coaches, house staff, students, and non-student or non-employee participants in University programs, such as vendors, contractors, visitors, and patients. Sexual harassment may occur in hierarchical relationships or between peers, or between persons of the same sex or opposite sex. . ( February 10, 2006)
In determining whether the reported conduct constitutes sexual harassment, consideration shall be given to the record of the conduct as a whole and to the totality of the circumstances, including the context in which the conduct occurred. ( February 10, 2006) While romantic relationships between members of the University community may begin as consensual and they may evolve into situations that lead to charges of sexual harassment, subject to this policy. Harassment that is not sexual in nature but is based on gender, sex-stereotyping, or sexual orientation also is prohibited by the University’s nondiscrimination policies if it is sufficiently severe to deny a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from University educational programs and services on the factors distinguished from sexual harassment may contribute to the creation of a hostile academic environment. Thus, in determining whether a hostile environment due to sexual harassment exists, the UC may take into account acts of discrimination based on gender.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND OLEANNA
Oleanna is a drama about a female college student () accuses her professor () of sexual harassment following a tutorial as it was filmed written by , as it caused considerable controversy for its apparent depiction of the woman as the villain when she destroys a man’s career by charging him with sexual harassment. However, to see Oleanna as merely a dialectic about sexual harassment is to miss its point. It can be seen as a cautionary tale about the dangers of imprecise communication, and also about the natural human drive to fulfill cultural and social stereotypes. The term “Oleanna” apparently refers to a Utopian society; perhaps it is used as symbol of the pseudo-Utopian society that “political correctness” is charged with creating. is a pompous college professor whose tenure is just coming due. He is celebrating his promotion with the purchase of a larger house for his family, and all through the film his conversations are interrupted with discussions about the impending house sale.
In Oleanna, is a student of , hopelessly confused by his ideas. The essence of what is trying to teach seems deliberately unclear to the audience as well, and byzantine theories about the nature of learning might cause an audience the same anxiety as they cause . When she comes to , saying “I don’t understand,” and “I read your book,” as she constantly and hopelessly refers to her notes, she is begging him to help her so that she can avoid getting an “F” in class. She wails, “I have to pass this course,” and he responds with a terse, “we must abide by the system we have chosen” and that has brought charges against him for sexual harassment, racism and a myriad of other crimes as I believe that was the more guilty in the movie for she over mind what has her mentor is saying to her and that John is guilty of fatuousness, perversion of words makes sense given her inability to truly grasp his meaning. That he makes no attempt to be sure that she understands him properly is his own fault; that she sees herself as the victim of language is her fault as well. She tells him not to call his wife “baby” on the phone, sending him into a rage, and causing him to physically attack her. OLEANNA is about the shifting power between people who fulfill their cultural roles without wishing to do so, and without attempting to avoid the problems about which they complain.
Thus, the message of Oleanna appears to have much less to do with political correctness and sexual harassment and more to do with the difficulties of acquiring and controlling language, especially in the specialized environment of the academy since that acquisition depends on a student-teacher relationship that is unequal, its participants would benefit from coming to some agreement about how power will be exercised during their association. Oleanna ultimately explores the perils of inferior teaching and the subsequent misreadings that necessarily follow in a pedagogical environment that tacitly reinforces hierarchical differences amongst its participants. In fact, this is more a play about teaching, reading, and understanding: how to do those things well and the consequences of doing them poorly as it offers an ominous commentary on education in America and more particularly functions as a dire warning both to and about those doing the educating. Instead of faulting actions, critics would do well to investigate professional and personal role, for it is his misreading of the texts – , the situation and even himself that helps prepare his student to be exploited by the “Group” and brings about his downfall.
Since one essential ingredient of effective teaching is the capacity to read students through their written and oral comments to see what they need in their academic pursuits, inability to understand from the start and failure to interpret the signals she sends suggest that the only possible result of their exchange is confusion and misunderstanding since John repeatedly interrupts in the middle of her sentences, he is trying to read a text without having completed it. He might as well read half of a novel and then endeavor to explain its meaning. As for the professor’s role as champion of free speech, first defends academic freedom in the play’s last minutes and significantly only when his own book is threatened. He actually is willing to consider the list of banned books, instead of rejecting the notion outright on the basis of principle. What emerges most forcefully is not a lesson in the importance of free speech, but a rambling diatribe by an egocentric hypocrite squirming under the pressure of a formidable attack: In case, teaching has had such a potent effect that she is about to reveal to him a lifelong secret told to no one else, until a phone call interrupts the two. Again, one needs to conceive of this relationship in terms of the power gained from access to language to understand difficult position and concomitant abuse of his.
In Oleanna, is a confused and unattractive young woman who desperately wants to learn about life. is the professor she meets outside of class, who cares little for her and then accuses of sexual harassment and destroyed his career. Therefore, Oleanna is a play about failed Utopia of Academia with the fact that housing prospects are intimately tied up in his tenure decision establishes a telling link and its source observation to make turn in Oleanna to point to the Greek roots of “utopia.” has learned a great deal, too optimistic about the future, for she has acquired talents and values in an environment. As ”Oleanna” is a deliberate play that has known to reduce couples to the same state of barbarism in which the two wounded characters find themselves just one measure of the real revelation. Then, was guilty in the movie since nothing physical happened between them really, as she said but a lot is happening on the level of speech and the use of language. She objects to the way he approaches her and to the way he speaks. She objects to him touching her, as does not emerge a winner in this battle of the sexes. She simply has more questions to ask at the end. In the same way that she is a victim of his rape he, too is a victim of her rape. Oleanna is a play that makes people ask many important questions about the use of power and about relationships and attempts to deal with concrete social ideas of the mysterious qualities to put aside his characteristic art for choice.
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