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There are upsides to having protectors in your midst, as passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Honolulu to Seattle discovered last month. A man, 29, with a history of assault convictions charged toward the cockpit, shouting that he wanted to see the pilot. He was quickly subdued by undercover marshals. They did not need to use guns. But because weapons can still make it past airport screeners, as test runs have shown, some security experts say marshals must be given deadly tools. "A gun on board is a piece of emergency equipment," says Steve Luckey, head of the security...
Congemi has a point about the law. It is a bedrock principle of common law that consent is no defense against assault charges, and many prosecutors see BDSM activities like flogging as assault. In the past half-century, many SM participants have been successfully prosecuted. But while most appellate judges have upheld those convictions, a 1999 New York State ruling is altering the landscape. In that case, an appeals court overturned the conviction of Oliver Jovanovic, a Columbia University grad student who had been sentenced to 15 years for kidnapping and sexually abusing an undergrad. Before the alleged assault...
...Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard, headed by Professor of International Health Jennifer Leaning ’68, recommended that a centralized office be created to provide 24-hour support for victims and to coordinate campus resources for the prevention of sexual assault...
...OSAPR has also created a website that includes a comprehensive list of all services where a sexual assault victim could find help...
That’s analogous to the mission outlined for the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) when it was formed last spring...