Word: assaults
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Response fields calls on issues related to rape, sexual assault, relationships, harassment, and battery. A co-director of Response spoke on condition of anonymity-all staffers must remain anonymous-and stressed that Response's first priority is listening...
...Student body reacted with surprise and outrage to the arrest of Sophomore Kirkland House resident Joshua M. Elster '00 for the rape and assault of another Harvard student. Elster, who pleaded not guilty, was arrested on Saturday, January 31 and was released on Tuesday on $10,000 cash bail. The Harvard University Police Department inadvertently broke Massachusetts state law by not recording Elster's arrest on its public blotter...
Elster was arraigned Monday in Cambridge District Court on three counts rape and two counts of assault and battery. He was released Tuesday on $10,000 cash bail...
About 30 concerned students gathered last night in an emergency ad hoc committee to discuss rape prevention on campus in the wake of the arrest of Joshua M. Elster `00 Saturday on the charges of rape and assault of a Harvard student...
This week's rape and assault allegations against Kirkland House sophomore Joshua M. Elster have shocked the Harvard community. Whether or not the allegations prove true, Elster's arrest has served as a catalyst for overdue discussions about the prevalence of rape and date rape on campus and it has exposed the University's ability--whether intentional or not--to suppress sensitive, yet public information. Perhaps this unfortunate incident will force the administration to finally realize its responsibility to its students...