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Last September, Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, pled guilty to raping and sexually assaulting a female undergraduate in February 1998. Also in September, D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, pled guilty to a charge of indecent assault and battery.
In February the women who were assaulted by Elster and Douglas spoke out for the first time, prompting a wave of campus protests about Harvard's methods of dealing with rape prevention and counseling of victims of sexual assault.
Douglas was dismissed from Harvard by a vote of the Faculty last month, and Elster will face a similar vote this Tuesday.
Members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, a group that staged a rally with two other student groups during the Douglas vote, said they are not planning any action in connection with this vote.
"There's a misconception that we planned that rally in response to the Douglas case, which is not the case at all," said Rosslyn Wuchinich '99, a Coalition member. "It was never meant to be a response to a specific case."