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Rape happens at Harvard. Indeed, 58 rapes happened at Harvard last year, according to an extrapolation from the latest University Health Services (UHS) survey. The same survey reports that the total number of sexual assault incidents has increased since last year, as has the number of students who reported being subject to unwanted sexual touching...
...light of the increasing number of reported sexual assaults, and with the campus focused on this issue—last week’s Take Back the Night Candlelight Vigil brought together hundreds of sexual assault survivors and their supporters—the time is ripe for Harvard to take a hard look at the threat that sexual assault poses to its students and how it confronts that threat...
...Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard—commonly called the Leaning Committee, after its chair, Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning—is expected to release its findings later this week. The group—which includes students, faculty and administrators—was created last spring by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 after students protested a policy that required “independent corroborating evidence” before the Ad Board would hear a sexual assault case. Charged with reviewing “all institutional support services for victims...
Education is the fundamental starting point to changing the atmosphere on campus. Presently, education about sexual assault at Harvard focuses on the available resources, and does not focus enough on sexual assault itself. Programs that Harvard initiates to educate students must be diverse in both content and method, and must be reinforced during numerous stages of a student’s career. The newly-created position of director of sexual assault prevention services should take a lead role in overseeing the development and constant evaluation of such programs...
...even before student education, Harvard’s top priority is to ensure that every staff member responsible for advising students is fully knowledgeable of the campus’ sexual assault resources. Currently, only a limited number of tutors in the Houses are designated as Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors. This system is clearly inadequate if Harvard wants sexual assault to be an issue that every tutor is prepared to address. At the very least, all tutors, proctors and assistant deans of freshmen, should be prepared with SASH training. These college officials are likely first responders—in most...