Won t Harvard at some point need evidence in order to take action?
Of course Harvard needs evidence to take action. However, it is very important to clearly define exactly what constitutes evidence. A victim s statement is evidence, as is testimony from fresh complaint witnesses (the first person the victim tells after the incident), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms, and the accused s statement. Anything that tends to support the truthfulness of the allegations, such as: physical evidence (bruising or bite marks, for example); witnesses to events just before or just after the assault (or during – but that would be unusual); confessions or admissions of the perpetrator made orally to friends or in notes/emails; past history of similar conduct – a pattern of unusual behavior or modus operandi; statements the victim made to others after the assault (this might be inadmissible hearsay in a criminal courtroom but strict rules of evidence do not apply in an ad board hearing); and the behavior of the victim and assailant after the assault constitute e
