Guilty Richard

Richard is a high school student and an editor of the schools newspaper staff. Jen attends the same school as Richard and works on the newspaper staff as a reporter. When being assigned to a story, Jen claims Richard sexually harassed her. She claimed that Richard touched her without permission and felt uncomfortable. Some say that Richard had no reason to become sexually involved with Jen because he had a “hotter” girlfriend. However, men and women have been known to cheat on their significant others all the time. Being based on the human urge to ‘want-what-you-cannot-have,’ cheating is usually a weekly occurrence. Richard is guilty of sexually harassing Jen. She felt uncomfortable and was placed in a hostile environment; two descriptions of sexual harassment by the Civil Rights Act of 1961, Title VII.