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Antonio C. Lasaga, an award-winning geochemist who taught at Yale for almost 15 years, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after he plead no contest to charges of sexual assault, employing a minor in an obscene performance and risk of injury to a minor in New Haven Superior Court last month...
...annual report last month, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 revealed a disturbing statistic—of the seven sexual assault cases that came before the Administrative Board last year, more than half were not resolved...
Though Lewis’s proposed change will most likely reduce the number of rape cases reviewed in detail by the full Ad Board, it should not lessen the the College’s responsibility to help and protect rape victims. Because sexual assault can be both physically and emotionally debilitating, some victims will wish to avoid the criminal justice system. When sufficient evidence exists for the Ad Board to investigate a incident, these students should still find some recourse in the Ad Board. Additionally, this change should not reduce the College’s disciplinary actions for convicted rapists...
...hope that this procedural change is not perceived as a signal that the College is divorcing itself from the issue of sexual assault. Instead we hope this modification leads to the College extending and clarifying its responsibility to rape victims. Rape is a delicate and important issue on the minds of many students. We urge the College and University Health Services to ensure that staff have sufficient training to deal in an effective but sensitive fashion with sexual assault victims. One appropriate step would be to clarify the resources, staff and procedures available to students who have been raped...
Marie Reine Le Gougne is no Tonya Harding - the clubbing of Nancy Kerrigan was an outside job, an assault on the sport, not by it. She's no Arnold Rothstein - he rigged the 1919 World Series for money. She's not even one of those East German judges who used to fight the Cold War from high above the Olympic ice. But she is the face of the scandal that's ending the week as everyone's top story. Suddenly all of figure skating smells rotten, and the sport's all-powerful judges are faceless no more...