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...Scribbles on the Door,” Feb. 27). While Ingram’s intent is clearly positive, her recommendations are not feasible or ideal for several reasons. Ingram proposes that all peer counseling groups be brought under the aegis of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). The OSAPR is not a logical place to provide oversight to peer counseling groups that primarily focus on eating concerns (ECHO), sexual orientation/gender identity (CONTACT), general adjustment (Room 13), or contraception (PCC), which are distinct issues from helping students prevent or recover from an experience with sexual violence. The clinicians...
Secondly, to say the OSAPR does not conduct outreach education is simply fallacious. Last year, approximately 2,000 Harvard students and staff attended one or more of our educational events and programs, including 61 workshops each fall (one for every freshman entryway) and the annual performance of “Sex Signals.” Additionally, we work with each house’s Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) team to conduct at least one educational outreach program per semester in every house. We have also partnered with numerous, diverse student organizations—like the Radcliffe Union of Students...
Despite Ingram’s misattribution of responsibility for the peer counseling groups, her goal of raising awareness about rape at Harvard is welcome. We invite Ingram, and any other interested student, to join our efforts by becoming a peer educator in the OSAPR or a member of their house’s SASH team. Together with these committed and talented supporters, we’re working every day for a Harvard free of sexual violence, and are always interested in new energy, insight, and ideas...
...them until they were no longer visible. The basic problem with Harvard’s student support network is that there are too many groups and that, partially as a result, students do not use them as often as they should. The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) should amalgamate all of the various support groups on campus, forming one centralized support network with liaisons in freshman dorms, upperclassman Houses, academic departments, and perhaps also major extracurricular groups such as sports teams. So that students can find somebody that they feel comfortable with, advisors for this program must...
...with rapes internally, through Administrative Boards, and not encouraging victims to report to the civil authorities,” she wrote. “That has changed, but was more true in the early 90s,” Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) was established in 2003 and provides confidential 24-hour assistance for students who have experienced sexual assault and related forms of interpersonal violence. Ryan praises the progress that the OSAPR has made under director Susan Marine. “Susan does extraordinary outreach during the school year and tries...