Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Williams' future, Chautauqua prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree assault in the cases of those who contracted HIV from him. But that may do little to heal the trauma he has inflicted on circles of Jamestown youth. The hope offered by new AIDS treatments still hasn't entered their thinking. "There's nothing to do now," says Danielle Rapp, 18, "but watch your friends...
Lewis continues by saying that students who frequent places where heavy drinking occurs are placing themselves in danger of physical assault, sexual violence and other forms of harm. He includes fraternities--both the unofficial ones at Harvard and those on other campuses, among such dangerous places. Essentially, Lewis feels that any woman who goes to a party, at, say, a final club, is asking to be raped; or that anyone who goes to a bar is inviting those around him who are drinking to beat him or her up. Clearly, this assumption is both unrealistic and unhealthy. The point Lewis...
Whereas in the past, a successful ground game might have been the focus of the Harvard assault, the Crimson seemed to take the setback in stride and proceed to other options...
...policy on alcohol, and have strongly reasserted that the first priority of this policy is the health and safety of Harvard students (Letter to the Editor, Oct. 24). However, in outlining the policy, the deans, perhaps inadvertantly, have made an illadvised statement concerning sexual violence. They write that sexual assault is one of a number of offenses that "[s]tudents whose judgement has not been impaired by alcohol or drugs rarely commit." This statement has the regrettable effect of marginalizing the experience of individuals whose attackers were completely sober. Disturbingly, it also may potentially help to convince some survivors...
...with an X-rated sex life; for biting lover Vanessa Perhach; to a 12-month suspended sentence; in Arlington, Va. Albert, who admitted "I am sorry" in court, could have received up to a year behind bars and a $2,500 fine for his guilty plea last month to assault and battery...