In Lowell House, resident SASH tutor Kirsten D. Sword has tried to organize preventive education--but says few people show up.

"It's so difficult to organize anything at the House level," she says.

Sword says she would like to see a professional consultant hired to develop a "curriculum" for community education. Harvard's structure makes preventive education difficult, she says.

"The larger problem of community education is much harder to resolve, and it is something that is endemic to the decentralized nature of the University," Sword says.

Avery notes that the students who attend educational events are often those who need them the least.

"You end up preaching to the choir," she says.

And the College can only enforce "mandatory attendance" at those events to a certain extent.

Scheible doubts that students pay enough attention to existing College-wide resources, either.

"Does anyone read the Tell Someone' brochures?" asks Scheible, who says she does not support making more meetings required. "Attendance at non-mandatory educational outreaches is minute." Decentralization Remains, For NowThis year the coalition has focused on discussion of sexual harassment issues rather than activism, but members of the group continue to call for change to the SASH advising system.

Pusey says that while adding fall training was an improvement, "that step is only the first of many in the reconstructive process."

Avery says she thinks the House-based system is appropriate and points out that the College doesn't get credit for well-handled cases because of confidentiality concerns.

"We can't shout out our successes," she says, adding that biggest problem she sees is student apathy.

But while using the Houses to address sexual harassment is a distinctively Harvard solution, the College also lacks some of the alternative forums present at other schools. Thus, Scheible says, House communities may be the best forums available.

"In this environment of decentralization, unless there is a safe center,' women's center,' or student center, I can't imagine a better place for our work to happen," she says. "As tutors, we live alongside students, and I think proximity and availability are the two most important criteria in determining a level' for SASH advising."

So what could convince Harvard to change its mind, providing more resources at a centralized level?"I think it will take some real student initiative," Avery says.