MIT announces steps intended to minimize unwanted sexual behavior
After surveying all of its undergraduate and graduate students, MIT has concluded that the incidence of sexual assault on its campus is not unlike that found by research on the nation’s residential campuses as a whole, and has announced it will take seven initial steps to minimize unwanted sexual behavior at MIT. President L. Rafael Reif announced the news today in an email to the MIT community. The Institute’s actions, and some of the survey’s findings, were detailed in an accompanying letter and report from Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart, who led the effort to survey the MIT community about sexual assault and unwanted sexual behavior at MIT. “I am disturbed by the extent and nature of the problem reflected in the survey results,” Reif wrote. “As a community, we depend on mutual respect and trust. Sexual assault violates our core MIT values. It has no place here. I am confident that, with this...