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...announcement comes as a result of a movement by Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) members to urge the Faculty to reconsider its policy requiring corroborating evidence before the Administrative Board investigates peer disputes, including allegations of sexual assault...
...Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) was enraged two weeks ago when the Faculty voted to change the Administrative Board policy about peer disputes to one that requires more evidence than competing student testimonies before proceeding with the investigation...
...strongly hinted at the necessity of the change in his January report on the status of the College. And what’s more, the Ad Board has always adhered to this standard; it was just invoked at a different time in the investigation of a peer dispute. Under the old system, a formal complaint would be filed, written statements from both parties taken, an investigation conducted, and if the evidence came down to one student’s word against another’s, without any other evidence, the Ad Board would likely call the case a scratch. This...
...meeting tomorrow, the Faculty is scheduled to reopen discussion on how the College should handle peer disputes, including sexual assault cases. Two weeks ago, at a meeting at which several professors rightly complained of the absence of any explicit reference to sexual assault on the official agenda, the Faculty approved a proposal to introduce an additional filter into the Administrative Board’s investigative process. The new policy states that the Ad Board will direct students who are unable to present “corroborating evidence” of their allegations to the criminal courts instead of immediately launching...
...tape cut all the way through, change—for better or worse—becomes as simple as a vote, a raising of hands, a counting of yeas and nays. Such was the case May 7 when the faculty voted to amend the Administrative Board policy on peer-to-peer disputes. Under the new policy the Ad Board will no longer adjudicate claims of misconduct brought by one student against another unless there is independent corroborating evidence to support the claim. As a result, the board will drastically limit the number of so-called “he-said...