Harvard Increases Standards of Evidence in Rape and Other Cases

	posted by Scott on Thursday May 30, @05:17PM from the false-accusations dept.
	scott sager pointed me to this article by Cathy Young in Reason Magazine. Young reports that Harvard is increasing the standards of evidence in order to open administrative investigations for various offenses, including rape. Harvard is the last place I thought this would start, but could this be a signal that the tide could be changing at colleges and universities? We can certainly hope.

	Source: Reason [magazine] Title: Unwanted Sex: A turning tide on date rape Author: Cathy Young Date: May 14, 2002

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Evidence (Score:2) by Thomas on Thursday May 30, @05:25PM EST (#1) (User #280 Info) Harvard has adopted a new policy under which sexual assault complaints will be investigated by the school's administrative board only if there is some corroborating evidence. They're actually going to require evidence.

Re:Evidence (Score:1) by cshaw on Monday June 03, @07:20AM EST (#4) (User #19 Info) I've been to the Harvard Campus. It is refreshing to see that this school has deceided to follow what are considered judicial norms with regard to allegations of sexual misconduct.

CA Assembly Vote Tally (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday May 30, @07:50PM EST (#2) It is especially interesting to note that the Chair of the Committee of Judiciary (Corbett) opposed the bill. I wonder what her official statement would be? *******************************************         VOTES - ROLL CALL MEASURE: AB 2240 AUTHOR: Wright TOPIC: Paternity testing. DATE: 05/28/2002 LOCATION: ASM. FLOOR MOTION: AB 2240 Wright Assembly Third Reading         (AYES 57. NOES 3.) (PASS)                 (21 not voting)         AYES         **** Aanestad Alquist Ashburn Bates Bogh Briggs Calderon Bill Campbell John Campbell Canciamilla Cardenas Cardoza Chavez Cogdill Cohn Correa Cox Daucher Dickerson Dutra Florez Harman Havice Hertzberg Hollingsworth Horton Keeley Kehoe Kelley La Suer Leach Leonard Longville Maddox Maldonado Matthews Mountjoy Nakano Robert Pacheco Rod Pacheco Papan Pescetti Reyes Richman Runner Salinas Steinberg Strickland Thomson Vargas Washington Wayne Wiggins Wright Wyland Zettel Wesson         NOES         **** Corbett Jackson Wyman         ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING         ********************************* Aroner Cedillo Chan Chu Diaz Firebaugh Frommer Goldberg Koretz Leslie Liu Lowenthal Migden Nation Negrete McLeod Oropeza Pavley Shelley Simitian Strom-Martin

Re:CA Assembly Vote Tally (Score:2) by Marc Angelucci on Thursday May 30, @09:45PM EST (#3) (User #61 Info) The Chair wrote very biased analyses and did more harm to this bill than any other individual in my opinion. I'm hoping in the Senate we can gain back some of the losses. Thanks for posting this. But is this on the wrong thread?

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