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...change to the Ad Board policy requiring “independent corroborating evidence” to bring a sexual assault charge forward unleashed yet another storm of community outrage and CASV rallied once again outside University Hall. Only then, with the specter of negative publicity looming large, was Harvard willing to set up a committee to look into the issue...
...lucky enough to work on the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH) with faculty, administrators and other members of the Harvard community who truly did care about rape and sexual assault on this campus, and were ready to recommend real improvements to Harvard’s system. (And even then, CASAH itself was limited in what it could accomplish because a review of the Ad Board was explicitly left out of its mandate). Still, CASAH’s very existence was a big step forward for the University. Institutional change doesn’t come easily...
Along with transparency, fairness in the decisions of the Ad Board is paramount—the move to a single fact finder for cases of sexual assault last year was an improvement in this realm. But judgment by a defendant’s peers may not produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts...
...President Bush visited California recently to meet with Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom his party had placed in the California Governor’s office with little apparent concern for the revelation of a string of sexual incidents from his not-too-distant past. Some of the alleged incidents border on assault and, if true, make Clinton look like a choirboy. (Rather than deny them, Arnold promised on TV before his election that he would “get into all those specifics and find out what is going on” just as soon as the campaign was over, so we?...
...agree strongly that the central and urgent issue is the safety and health consequences of excess drinking. Drunkenness is closely associated with sexual assault and violence, and inebriated students can be one drink away from alcohol poisoning, a coma or even death...