Word: abarbanel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Victims find their complaints are not treated seriously. Gang rape is too frequently dismissed as (somehow more acceptable) group sex, for instance. Women are frequently pressured to drop charges. Says Gail Abarbanel, director ! of the rape treatment center at the Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center in California: "A victim seeking redress often finds herself silenced for the sake of the university's athletic success." A classic example occurred in 1983, when University of Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell telephoned a coed in an attempt to have her drop an accusation of sexual misconduct against one of his players. Driesell...