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College administrators announced yesterday the faculty members, University staff and students charged with recommending changes to the University’s resources for sexual assault victims...
...Sexual assault cases will not be “better screened,” as the Dean’s office claims, with a corroboration rule in place. And a resolution will not be easier to achieve— even though such cases often involve one person’s word against that of another. The problem is not that the truth is inherently unknowable, but that those vested with the responsibility of determining the truth lack specialized training to help them deal appropriately with the serious problem of sexual assault on campus. Senior tutors, assistant deans of freshmen...
...Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that it will undertake a formal investigation of Harvard College’s new disciplinary policies and procedures for sexual assault allegations. This decision stems from a complaint filed by an undergraduate in June alleging that Harvard’s policy discriminates against female students...
...whether Harvard is in violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1972. This law requires schools to provide students with access to “prompt and equitable” grievance procedures to resolve allegations of sexual harassment, the most severe form of which is sexual assault. The complaint argues that the corroboration rule violates Title IX because it treats complaints regarding sexual violence in a manner that is neither prompt nor equitable since other types of misconduct are investigated and disciplined without corroborative proof...
Sexual misconduct, harassment, assault and rape will never have the kind of corroboration that makes resolving peer disputes simple. Harvard knows this—which may explain why the faculty vote to adopt the new rule was “hurried through” last spring, without discussion, in the middle of exams, and in a manner that some faculty described as suspicious. Harvard also knows that requiring corroboration empowers the College to avoid the issue altogether in most sexual misconduct cases. Requiring corroboration may be the quickest and simplest solution, but it is a poor excuse for a meaningful...