Word: elster
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...Harvard has, as it claims, nothing to gain by dismissing, rather than expelling, people like Josh Elster and Drew Douglas. (thereby allowing them to reapply at a later date) then what do they have to lose by expelling them? Why not the more severe punishment? We, as students who are subject to the rules that the Ad Board follows, deserve to hear a reason other than that the Ad Board reserves the right to reverse itself later on if new facts arise...
...group, formed last February after Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, raped a fellow undergraduate, has spent the past year studying Harvard's resources for victims of sexual assault and comparing them to those at other schools...
...flow of visitors does fluctuate. Glass hasobserved that publicity efforts--such aspostering--bring an increase in visitors. Campusevents have also brought fluctuations in Room 13'sregular flow. One recent example was last year,when Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, was accusedof raping another student...
First and most important, Perspective, the liberal campus monthly, revealed that neither of two students who have admitted to and been convicted of indecent assault and battery has been expelled from the College. Both students, Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, and D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, sexually assaulted two Harvard women last year, and the Ad Board has recommended their dismissal. But the unless the full Faculty vote to expel them, the two will theoretically be allowed to return to Harvard. It is plain and simple that these boys do not deserve ever to return to Harvard...
...penalty, is irrevocable, while dismissal, like life imprisonment, is not. The similarities, however, stop there. The Ad Board is not a court of law, and expulsion from Harvard, contrary to what some may like to believe, is not as bad as death. Furthermore, let us not forget that both Elster and Douglas are confessed and convicted sex offenders. There is no further evidence needed. These students should not now or ever have the possibility of being readmitted, period...