The dismissal of one undergraduate convicted ofindecent assault and battery, D. Drew Douglas,Class of 2000, was approved Tuesday night by avote of the full Faculty. A large student protestin favor of Douglas' dismissal and greaterservices for rape victims on campus ended justhours before this attack.

The last time a Harvard-affiliated person wasthe victim of a reported stranger rape on campuswas in March 1996, when a student was assaulted inAdams House.

That crime has not yet been solved.

Since 1995, Harvard has investigated six formalreports of rape--where the victim pressescharges--and seven reports of confidential rape,where the alleged victim does not want to proceedin court, according to McNamara.

Statistics from the Cambridge Police Department(CPD) show that 25 people reported they had beenraped in 1998 in the city. Only one of thoseincidents is classified as a "stranger" rape.

Nationally, about 20 percent of reported rapesare committed by suspects unknown to the victims,according to Susan Vickers, a legal coordinatorfor the Boston-area Rape Crisis Center