The
excellent page on the obstruction of
civil liberties and intellectual freedoms in education by
Danny Yee
<danny@cs.usyd.edu.au>.
The
excellent page on the obstruction of
civil liberties and intellectual freedoms in education by
Danny Yee
<danny@cs.usyd.edu.au>.
The research essay, "Love,
Hate, Justice and Publicity", on Web publishing legal concerns, by
Rod Eime <rodeime@alliance.aust.com>
(includes mention of Rindos vs Hardwick Case and this site).
This case resulted in two books (both published by
Random House
1997? The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power by
Helen Garner (ISBN 033035583x).
1997 Bodyjamming edited by Jenna Mead (ISBN 0091834031), a
critique of The First Stone.
The Age - Melbourne Online
"Two female students at Melbourne University's prestigious Ormond College made informal complaints of sexual harassment against the then- Master, Dr Alan Gregory, over incidents alleged to have occurred at the college's valedictory dinner.After six months of informal investigation by the college and the university, the complaints were dismisssed.
The women then made complaints to the police who laid charges of sexual assault against Dr Gregory.
One charge was dismissed and one was upheld but overturned on appeal. Dr Gregory consistently denied the allegations....
In her lengthy New Yorker review, [reviewer Janet] Malcolm says The First Stone "is the story of the author's thwarted attempt to write a 'quiet, thoughtful account' of a case of sexual harassment in Melbourne."
"Helen Garner's The First Stone":
"Message to the friend who lent me the book"
Amazon.Com's listing for
The First Stone
most of a department's faculty left within one year (contract not
renewed, resigned, terminated, etc) under allegations of misuse of
funds, academic fraud, etc.
there has been some press on this and the matter was considered
by a Parliamentary Committee (ISBN 0642213097 & 0642235139)
Kim Sawyer is now in the Department of Economics at Melbourne University
Orr was a journalism student who was upset with the lack of
supervision in his program and that he was not allowed to follow the
direction he felt had been agreed upon when he enrolled