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...lead the Ad Board to water, but you can't make it drink. Two years ago, when comments by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz raised concerns regarding the Administrative Board's handling of the date rape charges, the Ad Board responded in true bureaucratic fashion--they set up a committee. Last month, the Ad Board rejected two of the most important recommendations of that committee, the Date Rape Task Force. While Ad Board members voted to adopt several critical procedural changes, their rejection of the Task Force's definition...
...Board memo obtained by The Crimson, Jewett called the Task Force's definition of rape "either impractical or inappropriate as a disciplinary standard." It is neither...
Some critics worry that the Task Force definition of rape as "any act of sexual intercourse that occurs without the expressed consent of the person," could be used to bring unfair charges against a member of a long-time couple. While it is true that many such couples routinely have sex without spoken consent, their consent is usually indicated physically--and the Task Force's definition takes this into account by stating that dissent can be expressed either "verbally or physically...
...issue of "expressed consent" is particularly important in light of the all too common situation, at Harvard as elsewhere, when a student is taken advantage of while in a drunken stupor, unable to say yes or no. That is rape, and that is what policies like this aim to prevent...
Viggiani told The Crimson in an interview yesterday that she decided to leave Harvard last semester. She said the decision was unrelated to the Administrative Board's recent decision not to accept the Task Force's suggested definition of date rape...