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According to extrapolated data from the most recent University Health Services survey, 58 students—enough to fill seven blocking groups—were raped at Harvard last year. Yet the Ad Board only investigated seven cases...
There are many reasons why these incidents might not come before the full Ad Board. In some cases, survivors may not feel comfortable pressing disciplinary action against their assailants. Others may prefer to skip the campus judicial procedures and bring their charges in criminal court instead. In too many cases the reason students are reluctant to turn to the Ad Board for help is that the majority of them has no clear understanding of its policies. More importantly, students have little faith in the organization itself, and in many respects, they have little reason...
...Ad Board—currently responsible for deciding cases of sexual assault—is mainly comprised of senior tutors and assistant deans of the College who have no training, education or background in either sexual assault or specialized methods for investigating it. Over the years, numerous calls have been made to train the members of the board about sexual assault, but the refrain that the board’s members are “too busy” has been constant. Today’s call by CASAH’s to train Ad Board members in peer...
...practical matter, the Ad Board members are some of the most overworked officials at the College. Indeed, they truly do not have the time necessary to fully handle even the seven cases of sexual assault that it heard last year—a number that administrators have characterized as a “dramatic” increase over previous years. As far as qualifications, Assistant Dean of the College and Secretary of the Ad Board David B. Fithian claims that the board is qualified to hear these cases because its members come from academic backgrounds that “value...
...findings later this week. The group—which includes students, faculty and administrators—was created last spring by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 after students protested a policy that required “independent corroborating evidence” before the Ad Board would hear a sexual assault case. Charged with reviewing “all institutional support services for victims of sexual violence and all preventive, educational, and outreach programs,” the committee has a chance to make a strong impact on Harvard’s policies. While...