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...discussion of the Leaning Committee’s report, professors expressed their support for the committee’s efforts and discussed broader social issues, including gender relations and alcohol use, that they say go hand in hand with sexual assault at Harvard and college campuses nationwide...
Even as the Democrats claw at one another for the chance to challenge Bush, the President's team is actively trying to influence the other party's nomination race. The G.O.P. has turned Bush's campaign to ban massive jury awards in personal-injury cases into an assault on Senator John Edwards, a former trial lawyer. Hoping to pin down the North Carolinian in his home state, Rove persuaded G.O.P. Congressman Richard Burr to challenge Edwards for his Senate seat. And when Massachusetts Senator John Kerry suggested that the U.S. was just as much in need of "regime change...
Gross also referenced the Leaning Committee’s study of sexual assault at Harvard, which emphasized the link between intoxication and the incidence of rape and other acts of sexual violence...
According to studies cited in the report, 55 to 80 percent of sexual assault victims and 26 to 55 percent of perpetrators had been drinking...
...must ask you to try again. Alcohol contributes to a lot of problems, but it’s also the stuff they use to pack red herrings. If only booze were to blame, we could bottle up a host of social ills by restricting its use. But sexual assault is not something that comes out of kegs. Stupidity is, along with poor vision and reduced physical strength, but these are not things which in themselves lead to rape. Alcohol is a poor excuse, and a prevention plan centered on it will make a poor policy...