“Harvard has $20 billion and a lot of smart people and giving up is not what you do when you face a challenge,” Levit-Shore said.

Levit-Shore said that she has gotten e-mails from students, faculty and alumni who are also concerned about the decision.

Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said she has already received responses from the Faculty to whom she forwarded CASV’s e-mail—some of whom did not know about the changes.

“I was really surprised with the responses,” she said.

Coalition members are also planning a rally—tentatively scheduled for Wednesday at noon in front of University Hall—to increase awareness of the Faculty decision.

“We’ve had an awful lot of people including alumni and Faculty saying we’re really outraged about this decision and we’d like to know what you’re doing about it,” Kutcher said. “The rally is a chance to get these people to come out and...to show the University that students are not happy with this decision.”

Coalition members said they have been pleased with President Lawrence H. Summers’ response on the issue.

At a Dunster House study break last Wednesday, Summers said that sexual assault cannot be tolerated on campus.

“The place we have to start on this is that sexual violence is as inimical or more inimical to every value that this community stands for as any offense,” Summers said. “In situations where due process will permit an outcome, we should pursue that outcome. There’s no question which side of the issue we all need to be on.”

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