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Currently, the Ad Board immediately begins an investigation after gathering statements from the complainant, the alleged assailant, and any witnesses, according to David B. Fithian, associate dean of the college and secretary of the Ad Board. The investigation can last up to two or three months...
...Fithian said the new measure should not be taken to mean that the College is washing its hands of sexual assault cases...
...We’re worried it will be misperceived as the College somehow not wanting to get involved in these cases and that couldn’t be further from the truth,” Fithian said...
...Fithian said the Faculty Council voted recently on a faculty committee recommendation to ask the Ad Board to review complaints before proceeding automatically to an investigation...
...past, we almost always went forward [with an investigation], which in a sense gave complainants a false hope that we’d be able to take action,” Fithian said. “Many people, at the end of a lengthy investigation, were stunned that we couldn’t take action; they assumed that since the case went ahead that we would...