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When Anita Hill Testified, These Scholars Were Moved to Act. Now They’re Contemplating What’s Changed.

September 24, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Fernando Zamudio-Suarez

September 17, 2018

In 1991, Mary Gray, a professor of mathematics and statistics at American University, watched Anita Hill tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that her former boss Clarence Thomas, recently nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, had sexually harassed her.

Gray also watched as the credibility of Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, was questioned by both lawmakers and the viewing public. By the time Thomas was confirmed, Gray was pushing her university to consider revising its own student-conduct code, for both its own protection and that of accused students. She told The Chronicle that the hearings had inspired the second look.

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