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Erbsen was director of Civil Liberties Union ofHarvard (CLUH), an organization which published an85-page report in 1992 on potential Ad Boardreforms. Eric D. Miller '95, CLUH's associatedirector for University Affairs says he thinks theAd Board has improved since CLUH started workingon the problem and monitoring it, but says hestill believes the Ad Board is not entirelyrealistic about its role in the Harvard community."I'd like them to admit they're a judicial body.They see themselves as an educational body...
...Board is composed of all Senior Tutors andadvisors, a number of deans who deal with academiclife, senior faculty members and a few others,including the director of the Core and theRegistrar. The strong faculty presence dates backto the Ad Board's founding in 1890, when thefaculty was the administration. No students are onthe Board, a fact which many undergraduates saythey think should change...
...main accusations leveled at the Ad Boardare the following: the Senior Tutor is usually arepresentative but not an advocate; there is noreal appeals process; students know little aboutthe proper procedures and punishments; and thejurisdiction of the Ad Board is too broad,extending both to small problems better handledlocally and large ones better handled in a courtof...
...recent proposal by L. Fred Jewett'57, Dean of the College, would make the Ad Boardless secretive by publishing the details andresults of particular cases without including thenames. Mackay-Smith says she supports thisproposal, adding, "I almost wish we could televisethe meetings with blue dots and bleeped outnames...
Confidentiality and secrecy are part of whatmake the Ad Board feared by students, who have noidea what goes on behind the closed doors ofdisciplinary committee meetings. In many cases,this secrecy leads to confusion, since only selectdetails leak out, Certain cases, such as therecent first fight at the D.U. final club or acase involving The Harvard Crimson, are coveredextensively by the campus media but do not alwaysportray all sides of a story. Legendary casesresult--such as the S&M couple who performedconsensual acts in public rather than the privacyof their own room and were required to withdrawfor the year...