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Members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV), which two years ago pushed the College to change its requirement of corroborating evidence in sexual assault cases, said at a meeting Wednesday that the procedures for dealing with these cases have improved significantly at Harvard...
...primary goal today is to make members more familiar with how the Ad Board works in relation to sexual assault. We would like to change the Ad Board so that survivors feel more comfortable bringing their cases to the board,” said CASV Board Member Laura E. Openshaw...
Openshaw said that members of CASV were happy with a spring 2003 change to a policy requiring corroborating evidence before the Ad Board investigated sexual assaults to one that created an independent fact-finder. She said CASV is unsure whether it will push the Ad Board to revise its policies further...
...CASV members said many students are unfamiliar with the services of the Ad Board...
...Another CASV board member, Laura E. Openshaw ’05, said she was especially concerned because the suspects in both incidents used cars in the abductions, which means that the threat they posed might not be limited to the Boston neighborhoods where the crimes took place...