“The related issue of alcohol will have to be considered as a community, not by any one person,” Gross said. “No educational program or committee will be effective unless we as a community take a good look at itself and its values.”
But on a day when sentiments were nearly unanimous, there were moments of dissent.
The self-described “sole critic of the report” Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 questioned the thoroughness of the report in dealing with what he said were innate gender differences and called the discussion “vacuous.”
“We have a view of sex that is congenial to men and a view of rape that is congenial to women,” Mansfield said.
After Mansfield asked the Faculty to consider the role of casual “hookups” as defining sexual behavior on campus, Summers cut in to emphasize the importance of consent in the definition of sexual assault.
The Faculty is expected to further discuss the report and vote on its recommendations at its last open meeting of the academic year, to be held on May 20.
—Staff writer Rebecca D. O’Brien can be reached at robrien@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Sarah M. Seltzer can be reached at sseltzer@fas.harvard.edu.