Harvard Law Students Embarrass Harvard Law Profs

A student response to the Harvard Law professors who complained that the university's sexual harassment policy was an affront to the law school's institutional independence.

Because going to Harvard is a privilege, but safety is a right; because when you speak, people listen; because we respect you, and consider your voices when finding our own: we ask you to reconsider the positions you stated in your op-ed.

— Anna Byers, Anna Joseph, and Maggie Dunbar, three Harvard Law students responding to the Boston Globe op-ed written by 28 Harvard Law professors complaining about the university’s new sexual harassment policy. Unlike the professors, Byers, Joseph, and Dunbar went to the trouble of actually, you know, READING the policy. They point out the factual inaccuracies and grandstanding in the professors’ op-ed and call on the professors to join the effort to combat sexual assault rather than defend the empirically failed status quo. Sadly, “failed status quo” is an academic’s default preference.

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