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Under new Administrative Board guidelines adopted over the last year, students who claim to be victims of date rape or sexual misconduct have more control than in the past over the proceedings of their cases...
Depending on how Clinton's Executive Order is phrased and how the courts interpret it, many of the gay men and lesbians forced out during the Reagan- Bush era -- nearly always because their preference was revealed or suspected by colleagues, not because of actual sexual misconduct or because they made statements to the media -- may file similar claims. The problems of accommodating them, making amends for time lost and potentially providing back pay and benefits worry even military leaders who feel temperate about the basic issue...
Lost in the furor was precisely what Clinton is proposing. Under Department of Defense regulations, which were strongly criticized in a General Accounting Office report earlier this year, simply being homosexual is enough to provoke expulsion without any evidence of misconduct. Since 1982, more than 14,000 people have been kicked out of the military; women were six times as likely to be expelled as men in what has often amounted to witch-hunts. Clinton takes great care to emphasize the difference between sexual orientation and conduct. % Simple homosexual proclivity, he argued, should not be grounds for expulsion. "Clinton...
Some of the more notable of the Task Force recommendations now part of standard Ad Board practice are: sexual misconduct and sexual assault cases are now ordinarily referred to a subcommittee of the Ad Board for investigation; the accused student receives a formal "charge letter" outlining the incident and asking for his/her response; the student charged and the student bringing the charge write initial statement without either having seen the statement of the other; the subcommittee report to the Ad Board states a recommendation, and both students receive copies of the report before the board meeting; the board advisers...
Aside from these changes in the procedures for hearing cases, the board also adopted the Task Force suggestions that the board make access to the victim/witness advocate available to all students bringing sexual misconduct or sexual assault charges; that the College provide more intensive training and orientation for the board on matters of sexual assault; and (as is now the law) that the College report incidents of sexual assault to the Harvard University Police Department and the Cambridge police, for inclusion in aggregated statistics on incidence of such crimes...