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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: RAPE :
EDUCATION: COLLEGE: STUDENTS :
EDUCATION: COLLEGE: ADMINISTRATION:
Support for a College Student Grows After a Rape Complaint Is Dismissed
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Support for a College Student Grows After a Rape Complaint Is Dismissed
By WALT BOGDANICH
JULY 21, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/nyregion/
support-for-a-student-grows-as-college-examines-its-sexual-assault-policies.html
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In a broad show of support for the student, known publicly only as Anna,
students and alumni last week organized meetings, issued policy
statements, set up a Facebook page, collected 3,000 signatures through an
online petition, and met with the school's president to discuss ways to
improve the administration's handling of sexual assaults.
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The president, Mark D. Gearan, said the school was re-evaluating its
sexual assault policies, a process begun during the last school year. In a
letter to the Hobart and William Smith community, he called his meetings
with students over the last week inspiring. "We have a moment of
opportunity before us to make a difference in our community," he wrote.
Continue reading the main story
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When this student told Hobart and William Smith Colleges that she was
raped, the accused were swiftly cleared.
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Anna, a freshman, said she was assaulted by three football players last
September, after two weeks on campus. The school's disciplinary panel
quickly cleared the athletes. Six months later, after Anna belatedly
pursued a criminal complaint, the district attorney declined to bring
charges, saying he believed the sexual encounter had been consensual.
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The examination by The Times, based in part on internal school documents
and interviews with Anna and college officials, offered an inside look at
Hobart and William Smith's adjudication of the case and depicted a hearing
panel struggling to evaluate an accusation of what would be a felony if
tried in court.
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Shortly after the article appeared in print, on July 13, 23 current and
former students of the small liberal arts school in the Finger Lakes
region began an online petition drive, stating that "the current state of
affairs concerning sexual violence is a source of shame for the school and
needs to be addressed immediately." Most of the activism has since
coalesced into a group called HWS Community for Change, consisting of what
organizers say is about 250 students and alumni.
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As The Times reported, records showed that two of the accused football
players cleared by the hearing panel had initially lied to the campus
police, saying they had had no sexual contact with Anna. They subsequently
admitted to engaging in oral sex with her, but denied having intercourse.
Laboratory tests later found seminal fluid in the woman's vagina and
rectum. The Ontario County district attorney, R. Michael Tantillo, closed
the case without testing whether that seminal fluid matched the DNA of any
of the accused.
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In the local interviews, the district attorney blamed Anna's family for
the failure to test the DNA because they initially chose to adjudicate her
rape complaint through the school, rather than the criminal justice
system.
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Anna's lawyer, Inga L. Parsons, said she requested that the rape kit be
tested by the police even though Anna was pursuing her case through the
school, and offered to pay to have it expedited. Ms. Parsons eventually
arranged to have the rape kit samples sent to a private lab, which
identified the seminal fluid.
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Anna's case is the reason Hobart and William Smith is one of more than 50
schools being investigated for possibly violating federal rules intended
to stop sexual harassment.
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