Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administrative Board had recommended. It was the right choice given the options. The case gathered considerable media attention focusing both on students' calls for greater support for rape victims and on the varying accounts of the situation which led to Douglas' criminal conviction on a charge of sexual assault as well as the Ad Board's decision that a rape had occurred. In the wake of the Faculty's decision and the media storm, we are left with a good deal to consider, not least of which is the meaning of rape on this campus and the appropriate punishment...
...rape cases discussed in the Perspective article were a crucial jumpstart on this issue," says Nancy D. Meakem '99 a member of Coalition Against sexual Violence (CASV). "But really, the issue was powder keg dying for some of jumpstart. Rape, sexual assault, counseling and student health resources need to be discussed beyond these two cases...
That article stated that, before the assault,"the two students were lying in bed for about fourhours. They had been friends for some time, andhad been drinking for much of the evening...
Ryan said yesterday that some Faculty felt thewoman's behavior had created an ambiguoussituation prior to the assault...
...court's account of the incident is takenfrom the hearing in which Douglas pled guilty toindecent assault and battery. In the courtrecords, the prosecutor reads an account of theincident, after which Douglas is recorded assaying, "I admit to committing the crime...