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CASAH’s report provides the first great potential for reform in a decade. The last time the College reviewed sexual assault was in 1991 with the Date Rape Task Force. More than a dozen years ago, this last group concluded that...
Currently students face an alphabet soup of Harvard agencies to contact: University Health Services (UHS), Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), Bureau of Student Counsel (BSC), Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC), among others...
...while it always has physicians on call to handle assaults, UHS does not provide “rape kit” services. Instead, it refers students to Beth Israel Hospital for this important medical and evidence-gathering function...
...cannot perform rape kits on campus because only specialized “Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner” (SANE) nurses have the experience and training to perform rape kits that would be admissible in judicial settings. These nurses are on-call at specific hospitals in Boston who have requested their presence, demonstrated an adequate volume of occurrences and worked to meet other designation requirements. Under the current system, however, only Beth Israel and five other Boston area hospitals are SANE-designated. They share the services of the 18 SANE nurses assigned to the area. But under the state of Massachusetts?...
...full-time SANE nurses for the city’s higher education community. Besides benefiting students, the action would help take some of the burden off the already-understaffed statewide program. With area colleges and universities each contributing a portion of the funding, colleges can then make sure that rape kits can be performed at many campus health services and eliminate the burden on students to travel to off-campus emergency rooms...