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...order to create a “community of support.” CASV’s highest priority is to establish a trained “impartial advocate” as a centralized name to call directly after an incident of sexual violence. This impartial advocate would inform the victim of her options, explain the Ad Board procedure, suggest other campus resources and provide counseling. Currently, CASV argues, Harvard provides several resources for students looking for guidance on issues of sexual violence, but the system can be unpredictable, because not all of the “first contacts?...
Truszkowska feels that more steps should be taken to inform students, especially freshmen, of the vast possibility for sexual violence at final clubs. “The issue of final clubs and sexual safety is inextricable. When I was a freshman, I didn’t understand that final clubs are not under University protection, and this gives them a lot of leeway. It creates a very dangerous position for women, especially freshmen, who don’t understand exactly what they are,” she says...
...school could easily evaporate if the city doesn’t take a stand to protect it. We may not live among our neighbors, but we do inhabit their larger community. We’ll live in this community four years, and we have an obligation to inform ourselves about the issues that affect it. And in the case of a no-brainer like this one, we owe it to the community to vote in its interests...
Given that we have criticized the Bush administration for discouraging media organizations from broadcasting Osama bin Laden’s speeches, we would expect the staff to advocate the open disclosure of information about national security. We can’t help but feel that if Ashcroft had chosen not to inform the public and this week’s terrorist threat had later emerged through independent reports, the Bush administration would have been subject to vociferous criticism on this page and elsewhere. By disseminating credible information about actual threats—even if that information is regrettably lacking...
...order to account for these expanded demands, book retailers are using new methods to inform people of their many choices of literature. Internet shopping site Amazon.com has established a compilation of Sept. 11 related titles, grouped under several broad themes, such as “Terrorism,” “Understanding Islam” and “Spiritual and Philosophical Dimensions.” The Harvard Book Store continues to display a can’t-miss-it “Sept. 11” table, where Yossef Bodansky’s Bin Laden sits next...