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When a student first registers a complaint, the student must file a written statement with the senior tutor, according to MacKay-Smith. The tutor will also advise the student to speak with the "Victim's Witness" advocate in the Middlesex District Attorney's office to see whether the student would pursue formal charges...
Virginia L. MacKay-Smith '78, Viggiani's successor as assistant dean, said the Ad Board needed procedural changes for dealing with sexual assault. "There were ways to handle date rape before the Task Force, but pretty much the whole community recognized that those procedures needed to be modified," she said...
Jewett presents a new compromise date rape definition, the result of collaboration among Viggiani, her successor Viggiani L. Mackay-Smith '78 and Heinicke, which is "sexual intercourse against the will of the victim." The new definition favors the council's definition and reflects Jewett's desire for a negative criterion for the definition.CrimsonNancy E. Greene...
...past, MacKay-Smith said the students charging date rape had been treated simply as witnesses to the alleged offense and were allowed only to issue a written statement to the Ad Board. While Jewett says the issue had been considered in the past, he says of in-person testimony, "Generally that's never, been done before...
...This was something the Task Force felt pretty strongly about," MacKay-Smith said. Yet she also said these procedures had been informally used prior to the Task Force's report...