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...column about Duke rape case (“Rushing to Rape,” Apr. 18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 describes the injustice that the now-exonerated indictees have faced. Unfortunately, she also chooses to offer unwarranted inferences about their moral character. She says they are “probably not the most respectable college students on the planet” and are “not likely” her kind of dating material...
Lucy M. Caldwell’s column “Rushing to Rape” (Apr. 18) rushed to its own uninformed conclusion: women should prevent sexual assault by “taking control of [their] sexual behavior.” Rather than ascribing responsibility for sexual violence to the attackers, she suggests that women should stop giving men the opportunity and the cause, from excessive alcohol consumption to unclear relationship expectations, to rape them. She also writes that “morning-after guilt and regrets can give way to overblown cries of violation or abuse...
...editors: Re: “Harvard Lags in Grad Parent Aid,” news, Apr. 12. Angela Sun’s article on Harvard grad schools’ lack of support for students expecting a child was a hard-hitting piece, bringing up a human rights, gender equality, and health care issue that has long been ignored by the Harvard administration. Where are the services for expecting students? Harvard is unabashedly pro-choice and through its many departments offers abortion services, funding elective abortions through the University Health Services (UHS) health plan. And yet when it comes to services...
...editors: Lucy Caldwell makes some good points about derogatory language towards men in her recent column, “Payback’s a Bitch” (Apr. 4)–after all, words that insult any group of people are unattractive. But her analysis of groups like HUWIB (Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business) is less valid because she fails to fully understand the need for their existence. I’m not sure that a women’s group inherently serves to “suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex,” rather...
...editors: Re: “Faust’s Scientific Leadership,” oped, Apr. 4. While we appreciate the editorial’s praise of the current state of science at the Radcliffe Institute and the acknowledgement of the role of President-elect of Harvard and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Drew Gilpin Faust in its evolution, the piece could leave a reader believing that there were no scientists at Radcliffe prior to 2002. Since the founding of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study in 1960 (renamed the Bunting Institute in 1978), more than 1,300 scholars from...