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Proponents of the College’s new approach claim that requiring corroboration is necessary because peer-to-peer disputes involving sexual misconduct are usually “irresolvable,” and should be avoided because they leave the students involved with little or no satisfaction after months of investigation and analysis. Assistant Dean of the College David B. Fithian, who is also the secretary of the Administrative Board, told the Boston Globe in May that the College believes it is “fairer to students to decline a case up front than to subject them...
Sexual misconduct, harassment, assault and rape will never have the kind of corroboration that makes resolving peer disputes simple. Harvard knows this—which may explain why the faculty vote to adopt the new rule was “hurried through” last spring, without discussion, in the middle of exams, and in a manner that some faculty described as suspicious. Harvard also knows that requiring corroboration empowers the College to avoid the issue altogether in most sexual misconduct cases. Requiring corroboration may be the quickest and simplest solution, but it is a poor excuse for a meaningful...
...whole-foods diet, the more their heart disease improves. In our research, angina (chest pain) decreased 91%, and cholesterol levels fell 40%, without medications. Most patients eligible for bypass surgery or angioplasty were able to avoid it safely. These findings have been published in the leading peer-reviewed journals. Medicare now covers 1,800 patients in our lifestyle program...
...statements to meet his own political end." A dozen esteemed environmental scientists, including Raven and Harvard's Edward O. Wilson, are demanding that Lomborg's publisher cut him loose. "We are deeply disturbed that Cambridge University Press would publish and promote an error-filled, poorly referenced and non-peer-reviewed work," they write in a letter calling on Cambridge to transfer publishing rights to a popular, nonscholarly press...
...policy, which administrators said will still go into effect this fall, mandates that a victim of a peer dispute produce corroborating evidence before the College’s Administrative Board begins a full investigation...