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...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...
Cases of sexual assault must be considered by a separate disciplinary board that includes some faculty and administrators, but is mainly comprised of officials trained in sexual assault, judicial procedure, mental health, investigative techniques and other student support services...
Only when Harvard commits to assembling a group of serious sexual assault professionals to consider cases will students take its determinations seriously. Only by stepping up the level of expertise of the adjudicating body will Harvard be able to increase students’ confidence in the fairness of the board and make students feel confident in appealing to it for justice. The College must provide a trained, competent disciplinary board with the power to remove rapists from the Harvard community...
None of these reforms, however, will change student perception of assault unless the administration more effectively explains its policies to students. In last year’s Crimson survey of more than 400 undergraduates, 70 percent of respondents said that they did not understand how the current Ad Board handles sexual assault, and 56 percent said that the board handles cases poorly. These negative perceptions, while arguably justified, have only been exacerbated by the secrecy with which Harvard masks it proceedings. The institution of the “corroboration rule”—which remained poorly defined...
...communication must flow both ways. Education programs, survivor services and a newly constituted sexual assault board must each create mechanisms to hear feedback from students and improve their programs and policies accordingly. This feedback piece is crucial because unless officials can have a firm grasp of how their services are viewed by the student body, students will again lose faith in the institutions meant to help them...