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Administrators say the Ad Board’s primary mission is to help students learn from their mistakes, but the board can also dole out punishments as severe as required withdrawal or suggest the Faculty Council dismiss a student.
During their review of the Ad Board’s procedures, the Leaning Committee found that many students involved in the process felt that the board “was not doing a sufficiently comprehensive or timely job” in dealing with cases of sexual assault, according to Jennifer...
As the Ad Board does not perform or require rape kits or forensic investigation of any kind, the board relies heavily on witness testimony—making the fact-finder particularly important to the process. While there are rarely eyewitnesses in sexual assault cases, the fact-finder will interview students...
Though they were not necessarily present for the alleged incident, witnesses may provide valuable circumstantial information, such as the level of intoxication of the victim or the interactions of the complainant and defendant prior to the event, Rankin says.
The Faculty’s definition of sexual misconduct, as laid out in the undergraduate student handbook, mandates that sexual assault must “take place against a person’s will or [be] accompanied by physical force or the threat of bodily injury.”