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...weekend, it’s unsurprising that little mention has been made of a short Pepsi spot that aired during the second quarter. Still, Pepsi paid something on the order of $2 million for the 30-second slot, so it deserves some of our attention. In question is an ad featuring five or six of the teenagers who were sued by the recording industry for illegally sharing copyrighted music files on the internet and who settled out of court. To the tune of “I fought the law (and the law won),” they each defiantly...
...been sent, as his lawyer has noted, “into a black hole.” He has received no response and will in any case not receive an open hearing of a court’s brand, a procedure unheard of in the Star Chamber of the Ad Board and its ilk. Indeed, the only communication he has had with Harvard’s strong arm has been in the form of an ominous warning: Don’t ask Harvard to clear your name, he says he was told, for the outcome—no matter...
...Zedginidze’s case sounds like something out of Kafka, with an innocent protagonist nonetheless enduring punishment under a supposedly fair system, the reverse has just as frequently occurred. Convicted sex offenders have routinely received punishments less severe than expulsion from the Ad Board and the Faculty. The most severe case, when admitted rapist D. Drew Douglas was “required to withdraw” by the Ad Board, elicited such widespread campus outrage in 1999 that a meeting of the full Faculty dismissed him outright by a wide margin. Yet this is the exception to the rule...
...system which allows gentlemanly withdrawal, as Harvard’s Ad Board has for decades, is unacceptable. Then again, there are limits to Harvard’s ability to adjudicate something fairly; the Ad Board is surely not a court — it neither has the kind of transparency or judicial sage that make for worthy bodies of law in external society. That the GSE administration has attempted to bully someone exonerated in a court of law into not applying for readmission represents the dual definitions of “rape” that exist, and Harvard?...
...outside world handle matters emanate not from shadowy administrators, but from students themselves. In this instance, well-intentioned individuals such as those of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) have argued time and time again against instituting the judicial safeguards that make state courts relatively fair and the Ad Board unfair. CASV has argued, among other things, against a standard of “independent corroborating evidence” to prompt an Ad Board investigation—something former Dean Harry R. Lewis nonetheless instituted—and for a near-absolute victim confidentiality. Massachusetts, as well as a score...