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Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Executive Director Ted A. Mayer has announced that starting next year, all campus dining halls will exclusively serve Fair Trade coffee. More than just benefiting students with better tasting brew, these changes help to strengthen the fair trade movement. Increasing the College’s consumption of fairly traded coffee is a socially-responsible action for which the dining services should be commended...
...third piece of Harvard’s sexual assault policy, the College’s disciplinary procedures, was excluded from our Committee’s mandate. However, we tried to strengthen the existing system as best we could. Thus, process training on the adjudication of peer disputes for the full Ad Board (and sexual assault training for the resident deans in their capacity as support providers) will hopefully help this body become better equipped to adjudicate cases. Also, expanding the Single Fact Finder (SFF) system by hiring a professional investigator who will do a full investigation of every peer...
Though restrictions can be said to strengthen the House community, they come at the cost of creating ugly rivalries and resentments between students in different Houses. And even worse, interhouse restrictions weaken the University community as a whole. A recent event at Quincy House necessitated that the dining hall close early, and many Quincy students were turned away at every neighboring dining hall. Students in Houses with restrictions assume that they have a natural and inalienable right to exclude intruders from their dining hall...
...It’s a major coup for us,” said Caramazza. “I think that Pinker’s coming will strengthen us in every area that needed strengthening...
Coupled with a consolidated response office, the University must also strengthen UHS’ handling of assault issues. After hours, the UHS hotline for sexual assault services refers callers to a pager for a general mental health counselor. UHS must have efficient sexual assault staff able to respond to student calls at any time; sexual violence assaults don’t simply stop after business hours...