UConn to Reveal Walcott Decision In Three Weeks

The University of Connection has decided whether to rescind prestigious lecture involution to Derek Walcott, a former Harvard visiting professors reprimanded last spring for sexually harassing a freshman. But will not release the decision for two to three weeks a UComn spokesman said yesterday.

The four-man selection committee for the Wallace Stevens lectureship--which has been awarded in the past to rioted poets Robert Penn Warren and Adrienne Rich--decided to reconsider Wulcott's invitation after reading about the sexual harassment incident in an October New York Times article. Joan Hall a UConn professor and a committee member, said shortly after the utricle appeared.

The committee had extended the invitation last spring.

The Walcott case first became public last spring when a female freshman charged that Walcott had made improper advances to her in a poetry class. Dean of the Faculty Hentry Resovky ruled that the charge "had merit and informed Walcott's permanent employer, Boston University, of the incident Walcott denied the charges.

Walcott is scheduled to recite selections from his own work and to award poetry prizes to Uconn students as the Stevens lecturer.