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Last Spring a Faculty Committee on Sexual Assault at Harvard issued a report saying that there had been 65 complaints of date rape or attempted date rape at Harvard in four years. Rape is a cruel fact that casts doubt on the equality of the sexes. Because rape is a crime virtually always committed by men using their physical strength, when women seek to tempt men into unwanted sexual acts, they have to use means other than the physical: they resort to a seduction that becomes an indirect, non-violent, and non-criminal means of coercion—a stealth...
...sexual assault last week was particularly disconcerting given that the St. Paul’s parking lot is such a popular shortcut to Dunster and Mather Houses. While students might like to believe that the campus is a completely safe environment, the incidents of this past year clearly indicate otherwise. Students need to be aware of these crimes immediately so that they may exercise discretion and be more conscious of their surroundings when walking around Cambridge at night. By not fully and immediately addressing these safety realities, the administration is making life on campus all the more unsafe...
...wake of last week’s sexual assault outside St. Paul’s Church, students seeking the services of one of the College’s most heavily-publicized safety resources discovered that the program is apparently defunct...
Susan B. Marine, who directs Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, said that she had been giving out SafetyWalk’s phone number along with information about shuttle services to concerned students until two days...
Students say they have become increasingly concerned for their safety after several women were groped in Cambridge Common earlier this semester and particularly after last week’s sexual assault...