Sexual Harassment

Some students say they welcome the harassment policy that the Washington County Board of Education is preparing to pass. cont. from front page The School Board during its regular business meeting tonight will hold a second reading of a policy to ban all forms of harassment. It covers conflicts among students, between an adult employee and a student or among adults. The new rules would prohibit all forms of abuse based on race, sex, color, national origin, size, religion or disability.

Shepherd University and the Division of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education will host a workshop “Bullying Prevention: Making Our Schools a Safe Place to Learn” for middle and secondary educators, administrators, social workers, parents, and the community on Saturday, May 19.    The workshop will feature nationally known expert Dorothy Espelage, a professor of child development in the Department of Educational Psychology at the...

By DAVE McMILLION Staff Writer Joined by 81 colleagues, U.S. Rep Roscoe Bartlett introduced legislation Thursday that would ban mixed-sex training at military facilities. The move follows Bartlett's comments earlier in the week in which he said mixing women and men in military training operations has been a "catastrophe. " "We're doing all of this to the goddess of political correctness," said Bartlett, who added that he did not think a "powder puff" military would be very effective.

A Hagerstown man has filed a $300,000 religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court alleging that his former employer, Williamsport-based trucking company D.M. Bowman Inc., failed to accommodate his religious practice as a Mennonite of not working Sundays. [cont. from front page ] The Rutherford Institute, a private nonprofit organization best known for representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton, is providing some legal and financial assistance to the plaintiff in this case, Edward Pipkin, 38, of 13944 Broadfording Church Road.

"Someone called in and said we should use nicknames when we call in. I think it would be a great idea for people to use nicknames and then you know who's commenting. I don't know what my nickname would be yet, but I'd find one. " - Hagerstown "The person in Waynesboro, Pa. was talking about the Vietnam War, where Nixon wasn't in there that much time. No, that's right, Johnson was. Johnson didn't start that war and neither did Nixon. President Eisenhower, back in 1955, sent advisory troops over and it just kept growing until it was actually into a war. That's the way it started.

Candace Culbreath, 17, of Mont Alto, Pa., saw an older friend she hadn't seen for years at the Mummers' Parade last year and got an unexpected, uncomfortable hug. "The hug was kind of extended and he was a little too close," Candace recalled. So she pushed him away a little - drawing a funny look from him, but message received. Sometimes hugging just isn't appropriate, but huggers might not be aware or just might not care. On Wednesday Candace averted an oncoming, unwanted hug from a friend's boyfriend by sticking her hand out for a handshake as he approached.

"To those people who don't believe there is a war on Christmas, please read The Morning Herald for Dec. 20 on Page A9 about Christmas displays. My problem is not with displaying items from other religions, it is when they arbitrarily remove Christian symbols of Christmas from public places. There is nothing wrong with displaying symbols of all religions on public property, including Christian symbols. Many of these public officials have a misguided idea about the separation of church and state which causes these problems in the first place.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Nine current and former Scotland School for Veterans Children students testified Tuesday in a preliminary hearing for a former houseparent charged with sexually molesting them between October 1998 and November 1999. At the end of the 3 1/2 hour hearing, District Justice Larry K. Meminger ordered the case against Charles L. McGuire Jr., 40, of Chambersburg, bound over for court. He is scheduled for mandatory arraignment in Franklin County Court on June 7, Meminger said.

A former police academy student who sued the City of Hagerstown over allegations of gender-based harassment has lost her case in federal court. A jury delivered a verdict Friday in favor of the City of Hagerstown and against plaintiff Tiffany Mosby-Grant, according to a judgment filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore. The verdict concluded a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg. Mosby-Grant, of Frederick, Md., alleged in the civil suit that she was subjected to sexual harassment and a hostile work environment while enrolled in the Western Maryland Police Academy in 2006.

karenh@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Mike Weller's pitching arm won't earn him much time on a professional playing field. For the community he serves, that's probably a good thing. Weller, a Hagerstown Fire Department public education officer, was among four people honored as "Neighborhood Champions" during the Hagerstown Suns' pregame festivities Sunday. He bounced the ceremonial first pitch into the chest of outfielder Carlos Gomez. "I'll tell you, if I'd have two or three (pitches)