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Although Avery has noted that the addition of the investigator helps to speed up Ad Board proceedings, which have been attacked in the past as being far too slow, the decision to place such significant responsibilities for fact-finding on one individual is very concerning for Harvard students faced with a process that already lacks basic elements of fairness...
...years, the Ad Board has been criticized for not providing students with effective justice in serious disciplinary cases. When investigating an accusation of a disciplinary infraction that constitutes a serious criminal offense, an Ad Board subcommittee cannot function with the efficiency or the effectiveness of a court of law, and it should whenever possible defer its fact-finding role to the legal system. Unlike the Ad Board, courts have extensive resources to use in gathering evidence that the best efforts of a subcommittee of administrators could never equal. Courts obey recognized standards of due process, allow for the cross-examination...
...replacing a three- or four-member subcommittee with an investigator, the Ad Board risks making its fact-finding proceedings even less even-handed. The use of a single investigator gives immense influence to one person to determine and interpret the facts. Although students in cases where investigators are appointed will now be allowed the opportunity to address the Ad Board directly in their defense—an opportunity it inexplicably denies to students in cases where the facts are determined by subcommittee—the resulting process is far from equitable...