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...over two years, Georgi Zedginidze??s reputation has been in limbo. A former Graduate School of Education (GSE) student from the Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...
When he was acquitted by a Middlesex Superior Court, it seemed that Zedginidze??s ordeal had reached its terminus. He had never completed his education degree, and this—it would follow—was a ripe time to be allowed back in the country and the GSE. But because of Harvard’s unfailingly mediocre judicial boards, Zedginidze??s petition has been sent, as his lawyer has noted, “into a black hole.” He has received no response and will in any case not receive an open hearing...
...Zedginidze??s case sounds like something out of Kafka, with an innocent protagonist nonetheless enduring punishment under a supposedly fair system, the reverse has just as frequently occurred. Convicted sex offenders have routinely received punishments less severe than expulsion from the Ad Board and the Faculty. The most severe case, when admitted rapist D. Drew Douglas was “required to withdraw” by the Ad Board, elicited such widespread campus outrage in 1999 that a meeting of the full Faculty dismissed him outright by a wide margin. Yet this is the exception to the rule...
...Wayland said Harvard administrators have advised Zedginidze not to reapply, warning that, if the GSE’s disciplinary body finds him guilty, his academic record could be marked with an expulsion. Currently, Zedginidze??s record notes his voluntary withdrawal...
Edward W. Wayland, Zedginidze??s attorney, said that he argued at the four-and-a-half day trial, which began Aug. 27, that the sexual encounter was consensual...