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...date rape, the College's Administrative Board will do little if there is any hint of drug or alcohol use by either individual. The College has, however, formed an ad hoc committee within its Administrative Board to hear cases relating to peer harassment. The problem, says Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...
Counselors at Response suggest that at coeducational schools such as Harvard, more relationship problems lead to a higher incidence of date rape. Honnet, however, says that a coed school might "have an advantage in that men and women living together as friends have greater potential for understanding and communication...
Cornell Professor of Human Sexuality Andrea Parrot, an expert on date rape, will come to Harvard in the fall for two days to train students on how to lead the workshops and freshman proctors on how to handle acquaintance rape cases, Porter Honnet said...
...students, a man and a woman, will lead the workshops. "The key thing is to have people understand the issue is not just a woman's problem," Porter Honnet said...
Although there are no formal statistics on date rape at Harvard, Porter Honnet said that "there certainly have been some cases--We'd really be burying our heads in the sands if we said it couldn't happen here...