Harvard student pens letter about lack of response to sexual assault

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/harvard-student-slams-school-lack-response-sexual-assault-article-1.1741921

by superduper33 • 12 years ago

19 9 12 years ago

Gigablah• 12 years ago

Cue victim-blaming in the article comments.

Cue activists attempting to suppress rational discussion with cute but meaningless catch-phrases. The alleged-victim may or may not, in fact, be at fault. Labeling and demonizing those who don't mindlessly support her adds nothing to the conversation.

Also, exactly what does this article have to do with HN?

ars3• 12 years ago

How do you know if she's a victim or not?

QuantumChaos• 12 years ago

I don't support the existence of institutions that operate parallel to the legal system.

If they favor the victim, then they will tend to punish people who would not have been found guilty of a crime in a court of law, and so it is very hard to determine if the accused was given due process.

If they favor the accused, then they direct complaints away form the legal system and thereby protect criminals.

I think that the support system that the university provides should be more oriented towards directing people who consider themselves to be victims towards the legal system, not trying to replace the legal system. Then there would be no expectation that Harvard define sexual assault or rape in a particular way, and the responsibility for defining these things would fall where it belongs: with lawmakers and the courts.

ars3• 12 years ago

Why in the world do colleges have their own police force for this kind of thing?

Is the some reason she can't call the police about this?

angersock2• 12 years ago

There's some great utility in having campus police forces--a great many sorts of dumb things are better handled with a softer touch than you'd get were you to use the normal cops.

MetaCosm• 12 years ago

Which, in the end just sounds like an extension of privilege given to those who can attend universities.

ars3• 12 years ago

Civil things, sure. (As most pranks and dumb actions are.)

But not criminal.

Harvard student pens letter about lack of response to sexual assault

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