Levit-Shore says the coalition’s current goals are to improve the College’s sexual assault education, resources for sexual assault victims and the Ad Board’s handling of sexual assault cases—all of which she sees as inadequate.

Just as Rosenfeld stresses the importance of improving education immediately, Levit-Shore says the approximately 20 minutes about sexual violence in the general safety meeting for first-years is not enough.

“They hand out this kit that’s really helpful and really well-researched and you’re with 500 people and everyone’s really awkward,” Levit-Shore says. “If you asked anyone what happened, no one has any idea.”

Levit-Shore says improving education about sexual violence is a “no-brainer.” Ideally, she says, there would be at least three educational sessions, held in small, sex-segregated groups.

Levit-Shore also feels that the resources for sexual assault victims should be more centralized. Currently, students who are sexually assaulted have multiple options in seeking help, including the Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment tutor in their House, their senior tutor, Avery or peer counseling groups such as Response.

“Only the survivor can take that first step, but once you make that call there is no reason you should have to work,” Levit-Shore says.

With the grant money, Levit-Shore would hope that Harvard would hire one or two full-time employees who are trained to deal with victims of sexual assault who would be on-call 24 hours per day.

Levit-Shore also wants Harvard to employ a survivor advocate to help victims pursue punishment for their assailants through the Ad Board.

“If we got this money and we got these experts and we got these new programs, it would be an amazing passing of the torch from a student group to professionals,” Truszkowska says. “It’s a job that Coalition’s been doing for a long time, but on the other hand it’s really something that needs to be done with a lot of money and professionals.”

—Staff writer Anne K. Kofol can be reached at kofol@fas.harvard.edu.