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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.
Coupled with a consolidated response office, the University must also strengthen UHS’ handling of assault issues. After hours, the UHS hotline for sexual assault services refers callers to a pager for a general mental health counselor. UHS must have efficient sexual assault staff able to respond to student...
And 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.
UHS 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...
While all these services seem like a significant expenditure for the approximately 60 students who may have been sexually assaulted last year, according to estimates extrapolated from the latest UHS survey, these services will surely be in growing demand. As Harvard demonstrates an increased commitment to and support for survivor...