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Expulsion and dismissal are both rare events at the College, with expulsion used mostly for admissions fraud cases and dismissal having been approved only 12 times in the last 40 years. Students who commit rape, a violent crime, should be included in those rare incidences of expulsion. If not this, what does it take to get kicked out of here...
Elster, who was convicted in criminal court on three counts of rape, two counts of assault and one count of indecent assault, is now serving three years probation and is not allowed on Harvard property. Douglas, who was convicted in criminal court on one count of indecent assault, is under house arrest for 18 months (subject to re-evaluation every six months) of his five-year probation term. A charge of rape against Douglas has been filed without a determination of guilt or innocence and could be taken up in the future. In both cases, the Ad Board ruled that...
...considered lifetime imprisonment (but apparently with the slim possibility of parole a.k.a. readmission), expulsion is the equivalent of the death penalty, and they indicate their reluctance to take such final action. We appreciate the somberness with which they approach removing students for good, but again we ask, if not rape, what does it take? Moreover, devastating as it may be to lose one's status as a student of Harvard College, it is not equivalent to being sent to the gas chamber. Life will go on, just not with Harvard's stamp of approval...
Speaking generally about campus rape, Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59, who chaired the Ad Board in the 1970's as dean of the College, revealed an alarmingly outmoded attitude toward rape which we hope is not shared by other administrators. Referring to all male undergraduates involved in such allegations, he held open the possibility that, "The young man made an error, but it wasn't a calculated error," and that "this is a perfectly decent young man, and he should graduate some day." Anyone who attacks another human being and forces them to have sex against...
...women said they would fear for theirlives if the men they charged with rape returnedto campus...