It took them long enough to speak out. There are 28 human faculty members with spines at Harvard University after all. Good for them. But they act after mighty Emerson College responded to a lawsuit saying, "Emerson College claims there is no legal duty for a school to protect others from the criminal or wrongful acts of a third person." The response from Emerson College to federal government bullies, comes after a lawsuit that was filed by a rape victim last month. But Harvard University and all other colleges accept this obligation created by the U.S. Department of Education?
http://www.wcvb.com/news/emerson-college-no-legal-duty-to-prevent-student-from-rape/28399158
Emerson College: No legal duty to prevent student from rape
Rape victim filed lawsuit last month
UPDATED 11:57 PM EDT Oct 03, 2014
[From article]
The authors went on to criticize the University at length for what they said amounted to bowing to the dicta of federal authorities instead of conceiving its own policy.
“Harvard apparently decided to simply defer to the demands of certain federal administrative officials, rather than exercise independent judgment about the kind of sexual harassment policy that would be consistent with law and with the needs of our students and the larger University community,” they wrote.
[. . .]
accusing central administrators of having “undermined and effectively destroyed the individual Schools’ traditional authority to decide discipline for their own students.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/15/law-profs-criticize-new-policy/
Law School Profs Condemn New Sexual Harassment Policy
By MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 15, 2014
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