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Harvard’s new procedure to handle sexual assault cases does not violate Title IX gender discrimination laws, the University said in its response to a complaint about the policy filed with the federal Office of Civil Rights...
...anonymous student filed a complaint against Harvard last June after the Faculty voted to require corroborating evidence in peer dispute cases before launching an investigation. The student alleged that this policy discriminates against complaintants in sexual assault cases—and violates Title IX because these cases are mostly brought by women...
Since women’s heavyweight rowing became an NCAA sport seven years ago, its popularity has blossomed. For many schools, it has served as a perfect solution to the gender equity issues raised by Title IX, a reply to that persistent issue—what will be the women’s football...
Where The Crimson went astray, however, was in its assertion that the Title IX claim now pending before the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is “questionable.” As defined by OCR, Title IX forbids sexual harassment in education—and characterizes the most severe form as sexual assault. To say that sexual assault is not sexual harassment is to believe that the use of words to harass and intimidate women on campus violates civil rights laws, but the use of physical or sexual violence to bring about...
Likewise, we disagree with The Crimson’s suggestion that the Title IX claim is an ineffective method of seeking change. The Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) has worked in good faith with Harvard to improve its response to the problem of sexual assault since 1998. And in the few months since the OCR claim was filed, there have been several changes that might not have happened if students had not reached out to the Department of Education for intervention. Just last week, Harvard announced a new administrative position—Coordinator of Sexual Assault Prevention Services...