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Last Thursday marked the launch of Harvard’s newest student publication, “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard.” The first issue to appear at Harvard contains various poems and brief narratives from anonymous authors that reveal chilling, first-hand accounts of sexual assault. Such a collection of stories insinuates that this kind of crime is much more prevalent than the average student would believe, which is exactly what the editors had in mind. “Sexual assault does happen at Harvard,” says Saturday Night editor Azeemah...
...turns out she was lying (or, at the very least, seriously, seriously mistaken). The case crumbled as her story changed—during the investigation, she gave more than a dozen different accounts of her supposed assault. When it became apparent that Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was completely mishandling the case, Cooper stepped in and cleaned up the mess...
...Putting aside issues of racial tensions and town-gown relations, the incident at Duke (or, in a sense, the lack of an incident) says a lot about the sensationalizing of sexual assault cases today. So many facets of society have become so hypersensitive to such matters that we seem to be losing our ability to discern between legitimate issues of sexual violence and overblown or exaggerated circumstances. To be sure, crimes of sexual assault such as rape are very serious matters. But so too is an accusation of rape...
...both involved parties may be unable to draw appropriate lines. In those situations, the “Yes, keep going” in the middle of the night, for instance, may be transformed into feelings of violation. These situations constitute bad sexual decision-making, not necessarily acts of sexual assault...
...leaders said they hope to shed light on the concerns of a broader range of students than in previous years. This year, “Take Back the Night” will place a special emphasis on international issues like sexual slavery and will stress that sexual assault concerns both men and women, said co-chairs Astha Thapa ’08 and Laura C. Mumm ’09. “Men and women should work together to end sexual violence. It’s seen as a women’s issue, but it?...