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Douglas pled guilty in Middlesex Superior Court on Sept. 24, 1998, to a charge of indecent assault and battery--a lesser charge than rape. A rape charge against Douglas was not pressed at that time, but could be at a later date...
...discuss the case of JoshuaM. Elster, Class of 2000, in yesterday's meeting,according to Seltzer. Seltzer said Elster's casehas not yet come before the Faculty Council,either. In February 1998, Elster raped a femaleundergraduate. Last September, he pled guilty tothree counts of rape, two counts of assault andbattery and one count of indecent assault inMiddlesex Superior Court...
Yesterday afternoon's nebulous "Rally for Justice" lacked that sense of purpose. The rally brought together under the umbrella of "justice" three legitimate but unrelated issues--a living wage for Harvard employees, fair labor practices in manufacturing Harvard clothing and more awareness of sexual assault on campus. By linking the issues, organizers had hoped to show solidarity against the Harvard administration and generate student interest that would spill over into all three issues. Instead, each individual message was diluted under the vague rallying cry of "Justice," and a true sense of purpose was never apparent...
...Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, was the only item on the agenda of yesterday's Faculty meeting that even related to the protests. The Students Against Sweatshops and the Living Wage Campaign seemed like opportunists, jumping on the wave of rage against Harvard's seeming indifference to campus sexual assault to gain support for their causes. There have been a number of small sweatshop rallies in the past year; only by banding with more pressing causes could the sweatshop activists have dreamed to draw such numbers to their cause...
About 350 students joined three campus activist groups in the rally designed to protest Harvard's involvement in overseas sweatshops, to fight for higher wages for University employees and to urge the faculty to take a firmer stand on sexual assault...