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When the Leaning Committee’s report came out in 2003, it offered a solution: an increased reliance on independent fact-finders. Since then, fact-finders—often attorneys who are hired on a case-by-case basis—have routinely been brought in to deal with...
By the end of the process, the fact-finder has typically interviewed many students—up to 45 in one extreme case, according to Ellison—and written an extensive case report summarizing the information obtained from the witness testimonies and other research.
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...
“There has been discussion at the Board and, I believe, among some members of the faculty, concerning the definition, but I am uncertain if that will end up in a reexamination of the policy,” he wrote in an e-mail.
Harvey Silverglate, a lawyer who has been employed by dozens of students going before the Ad Board since 1969, is a strident opponent of the process, going so far as to call it an “evil system.”