“If we give people a pamphlet, and you say people don’t know about it, if we give them a pamphlet and they don’t read it, what can I do?” he responded.
But another student added that in her experience, faculty and staff did not read the policy and did not know where to direct students.
Nye that people had been kicked out of the school because of the policy in the past, and that students should contact the dean who is conducting a review of sexual harassment procedures.
Hernández-Medina said referring individual students to the dean avoided a bigger problem.
“The problem is much deeper. There’s need to be a system,” she said.
“I’m telling you there is that system,” Nye said.
—Staff writer Elisabeth S. Theodore can be reached at theodore@fas.harvard.edu.