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Over the past two decades, criticism of the Ad Board’s handling of sexual assault cases has been divided into two camps: one believes that the Ad Board and the Faculty rules set an unreasonably high bar for finding a student guilty of rape, while the other believes that the board does not treat accused students fairly...
However, Pforzheimer House Resident Dean Lisa Boes—who, like all resident deans, sits on the Ad Board—says that this policy is not as inclusive as it should be to encompass the broad spectrum of circumstances surrounding sexual misconduct...
...Harvard, Boes says, the Ad Board often engages in discussions as to whether or not the accuser was incapable of providing consent due to alcohol consumption—which plays a role in almost every sexual assault at Harvard, according to Ellison...
Boes says that in her experience, the Ad Board often takes examples of the victim being able to carry out a task, such as sending a text message, as evidence that he or she was capable of providing consent...
While some Ad Board members question the Harvard’s definition of sexual assault, Ellison says there has been no formal inquiry into changing the College’s definition of sexual assault...