Thought you'd find this interesting

[Peter Scott]

On the issue of sexual harassment in academe, "reasoning feminists are
colliding with their more fanatical sisters,"  writes Laura Miller, a
columnist at the on-line magazine. Ms.  Miller says she came to that
conclusion after reading two new books: "Feminist Accused of Sexual
Harassment" (Duke University Press), by Jane Gallop, and "The First Stone:
Some Questions About Sex and Power" (Free Press), by Helen Garner. In the
book by Dr. Gallop, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee, Ms. Miller sees what she calls a "smug"  professor who refuses
to consider kisses and flirtations with female graduate students as
harassment. But in Dr. Garner, Ms.  Miller finds what she says is a more
reasoned voice. Dr. Garner, an Australian journalist who writes about a
sexual-harassment scandal at the University of Melbourne, describes the
incident by telling the "raw, confusing truth," Ms. Miller writes. That
ability to acknowledge ambiguity, Ms. Miller contends, is what
universities need in sorting out these cases. (The magazine may be found
at http://www.salonmagazine.com)