Alison Shafer, the incoming president of Harvard Law School’s student representative council, took a different approach to the policies, with praise for the changes but noting that implementation of the policy is key to its success.
“It ultimately comes down to how the policy is implemented,” Sher said, citing the op-ed “Dear Harvard, You Win,” which accused the administration of mishandling previous sexual assault cases.
Sher declined to comment on the new policy's standard of preponderance of evidence and its exclusion of an affirmative consent clause.
—Staff writer Madeline R. Conway contributed to the reporting of this story.
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