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...events of April 4 were consensual, the court statements to which Douglas pled guilty depict a situation in which the women he assaulted repeatedly his advances. But faculty members proposing a lesser punishment for Douglas wrote in a letter to the Crimson that "Rape is not an undifferentiable single act. Rather it is a category of acts that vary dramatically in their causes and consequences...it is easy to imagine rapes that warrant the most severe penalty we can confer, if not more, It is our belief that this space dies not fall in that category...
...there are different categories of rape, including stranger rape, acquaintance rape and date rape. Situations can vary, as can the relationship between the attacker and the attacked, but they fundamental act of rape-forcing someone to have sex against their will-remains the same and should be punished severely. Rape is not a lesser crime if it is committed by a friends or acquaintance or if the person raped has been drinking. To attempt to distinguish degrees of punishment according to the context surrounding the rape diminishes the idea that rape itself, no matter the context, is a physically...
Harvard is right to have a strict policy against sexual assault and rape in its Standards of Conduct for students: "Rape includes any act of sexual intercourse that takes place against a person's will or that is accompanied by physical coercion or the threat of bodily injury. Unwillingness may be expressed verbally of physically. Rape may also include intercourse unwillingness or its prevented from resisting as a result of conditions including, but not limited to, those caused by the intake of alcohol or drug," The College however must clarity its position punishment for the act of rape; administrators insist...
...Gumboots act, an African step dance performed with rubber boots on, preceded a performance by the '01 Steppers, who performed a step routine that partially mocked Gumboots. Afterwards, the two groups performed together...
...reduction. By not paying them the $10 an hour that Harvard can afford and that would put those employees over the poverty line and by actually lowering their wages, Harvard stands to make its human rights record worse, not better. I am sincerely hopeful that Harvard will act in as enlightened a manner with respect to these other two campaigns as they have with the anti-sweatshop students. I know that I, at least, plan to keep watch until they...