anonymous surveys. We have no mandatory rape orientation program, no sexual assault services coordinator, poorly trained sexual assault and
sexual harassment advisors and a bizantine administrative board process
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which seriously jeopardizes women who bring forward complaints.
So we should not be at all surprised that fewer women at Harvard answer
that they have been raped than at schools where this topic is dealt with in
a more open, serious, and productive way.
The Crimson editorial is right that this demonstrates a problem of rape
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