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...first case, brought against Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, ended with his pleading guilty to rape and other charges last September...
Another case was brought against D. Drew Douglas, also Class of 2000, who eventually pled guilty to a charge of indecent assault and battery. Unlike the woman raped by Elster, Douglas' victim chose to take her case first to the Administrative Board instead of to state court. She now says she regrets this decision...
...women first spoke out this week in the most recent issue of Perspective, the campus' liberal monthly. The Crimson has confirmed that neither Elster nor Douglas has yet been expelled or dismissed from Harvard...
Consider the Elster case. On a Saturday afternoon, almost exactly a year ago, several students saw an individual led out of Kirkland House by Harvard police officers. The next day, at Kirkland's regular Sunday House committee meeting, the masters vaguely alluded to some unfortunate incident that had occurred and asked the students to remain calm and supportive. When pressed for details, the masters refused to elaborate...
...think that the University actively tried to cover up the Elster arrest--far from it. Any violent crime at a safe institution like Harvard is difficult for administrators to handle, and rape is a particularly sensitive issue, for understandable reasons...