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While the committee will address health and safety problems resulting from binge drinking, the culture and social life at Harvard also perpetuate alcohol abuse and determine whether students seek treatment. These issues are essential to understanding and improving students’ relationships with alcohol, and they fall under the purview of the committee. Many first-years and upperclass students display nonchalance toward alcohol or valorize excessive drinking. For reform to be truly effective, policies must work to change student attitudes as well as behavior...
While the Leaning committee’s original charge did not include examining the revised Ad Board policy, the committee concluded that it would be impossible for them to leave discipline out of their purview...
...comprehensive, transparent review of Harvard’s disciplinary policy, and it therefore falls to the Leaning Committee to ensure that Harvard will grant every victim of sexual assault who comes forward a full investigation and hearing, even if the Ad Board was not originally part of its purview. Furthermore, the committee’s other recommendations should overhaul and ameliorate the rest of the investigation and hearing processes, and recommend a rigorous review by experts...
Questions had arisen as to whether the program should be funded solely by the Freshman Dean’s Office, and whether the program constituted academic advising, which would be outside the council’s purview. The council deemed the program an extracurricular organization deserving of funding...
Both Hyman and Ehrenreich cite conflicts over authorship of academic papers as an issue well suited to the new ombuds office’s purview. Conflicts often arise, they said, when contributors who are part of large working groups on a scientific project are left off the credits for a paper. After the Medical School ombudsperson noticed this problem several years ago, the school adopted specific policies in this area...