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‘This must end in action’: Students hang banners in design school after unverified sexual assault allegations

Activists openly admitted that list of accusations is unsubstantiated

A list of allegations that activists admit may be entirely false has inspired students to hang numerous banners in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, one of the latest developments in the ongoing anti-sexual assault movement at campuses across the country.

The list in question, which was begun on March 15 of this year, levels sexual misconduct accusations at over 100 men on and off Harvard’s campus. Titled “Shitty Architecture Men,” the list was openly admitted to potentially being fake. “We do not represent anything here as fact,” the lists’ anonymous moderators state, claiming instead that it represents “a compilation of thoughts, experiences and memories and things we have overheard.”

The thoughts and memories on the list subsequently inspired student groups to hang banners denouncing sexual assault in Harvard’s graduate architectural school, The Harvard Crimson reports. The banners were hung in Gund Hall, “a large, airy space that houses studios and offices for approximately 500 students and more than 100 faculty and staff,” according to The Crimson.

Among the slogans depicted on the banners were “We, student leaders, stand united in response to misconduct” and “This cannot end in conversation. This must end in action.”

Design School dean Patricia Roberts said that the college encourages the “type of expression” seen in the banners inspired by an anonymous list of events that may or may not have happened.

“At the GSD, we are working hand in hand with students and other offices across the University to maintain an open dialogue and take constructive steps to address these issues collectively,” she told The Crimson.

The creator of the list, in an anonymous interview last month with Suzanne LaBarre at Co.Design, again reiterated that the list, which made dozens of specific accusations against specific men, is not at all confirmed to be grounded in fact.

“My purpose in creating this document was to get a conversation started. In no way do I think this is a legally binding list, or that it even purports to be factual,” the anonymous creator said.

Read The Crimson‘s report here.

MORE: Activists admit they can’t verify accusations of sexual assault; make accusations anyway

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