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...with Jayson Blair prior to the news of Blair’s downfall at the Times became public, the result of their mutual struggle with addiction. “I had heard that he was struggling to stay sober, and I was sympathetic; I had stopped using drugs and alcohol six years before, when I was in my mid-twenties,” he recounts in the book...
...Justice Statistics shows that 20 to 25 percent of college women will be the victims of rape during their time at college. According to Heather Wilson, Education Specialist at the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), the vast majority of rapes and sexual assaults are linked to alcohol. Sometimes used deliberately to facilitate rape, alcohol also has the unintended consequences of making people more aggressive and less able to recognize and respect signs of resistance...
...Since alcohol is involved in the majority of rapes and sexual assaults, it’s not surprising that OSAPR saw an increase in rape and sexual assault reports last year after the alcohol-fueled parties at Harvard-Yale. This year will bring more of the same, unless we—both women and men—make a concerted effort to reduce the risk of sexual assault and rape. Our hope is that by following a few simple guidelines, students will make risk-reduction a Harvard tradition...
...Alcohol enables sexual assault and rape by impairing people’s ability to give consent and making communication difficult. Contrary to what you may have been told, alcohol plus sex does not necessarily equal rape. But when a person is not just intoxicated, but incapacitated—slurring speech, vomiting or falling in and out of consciousness— he or she is incapable of giving consent according to the law. The point, however, isn’t to figure out how much someone can get away with, but rather how to steer clear of these gray areas...
Before the tailgate begins, students will wake up to an 8 a.m. pancake breakfast—selected by the office of the dean, according to HUDS Assistant Director of Marketing Crista Martin, to ensure that students consume ample carbohydrates to deter effects of alcohol...