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...explicitly defined to Harvard undergraduates, should be within the realm of academics and related concerns. This is where a band of College administrators and Faculty should remain. The Ad Board should have nothing even tangentially relating to the domain of a criminal activity as serious, consequential and destructive as rape. In fact, because it is not a recognized legal body, the Ad Board does not have access to results of hospital-administered rape tests. Ad Board investigations are thus a drawn-out series of statements between the accused rapist and the victim. Professionals, namely the trained and qualified police department...
...Some victims of date rape, however, still opt to persecute their sexual offenders through the Ad Board. Granted, there are reasons that justify such a decision: First, the Ad Board is a surefire way to keep any information about the sexual assault from the newspapers and the public eye. The Ad Board mystique, by far its most frustrating and enigmatic aspect, ensures an anonymity to all parties involved in a sexual assault. Addressing the rape through the Ad Board is also a means of keeping a tender, sensitive issue within the Harvard-extended family. Recognizing the positive results that arise...
...Even so, most important is that the victim find a way to cope with the rape. Undergraduate-operated peer counseling services such as Room 13, Contact and Response can not only refer rape victims to professionally-trained services, but they also provide victims with an often needed core of concerned, yet anonymous, listeners. Harvard itself also offers counseling services through the University's Mental Health Services and the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...police handle rape well, and for myriad reasons. The most obvious being that this type of criminal investigation is all that the police department does. They are a law enforcement body charged with the responsibility to uphold and sustain criminal laws and to investigate, pursue and detain all who violate this code. The Ad Board, in contrast, is composed of individuals who split their time between administration and discipline within the College. An Ad Board member could conceivably spend his entire day grappling with the overcrowded Houses and then shut down his computer and rush...
...That sense of security is false, however, and could not possibly hold up to the lasting punishment that would have been awarded had the rape investigation been conducted by HUPD rather than a computer science professor. Ad Board criminal convictions have no permanence or durability. Rapists leave Harvard only to return and eventually graduate with the same diploma and same clean police record as any other student. In contrast, police department criminal convictions stick, and rightfully so. A formal legal conviction would taint any job application and mar the history of any adult who has committed a sexual offense. Rapists...