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...DISCOVERED Carleton Putnam only last Friday, at Widener's monthly sale of used books and records. I'd never heard of him; there was no reason I should have, although I'm pretty familiar with what's being written and said these days by Allan Bloom, George Will, and Dinesh D'Souza...
...introduced to Putnam by the impulse purchase for 50 cents of an old album whose cover stated it had been recorded at a banquet at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi on the night of October 26, 1961. The featured speaker was Carleton Putnam, a Northern historian and author who "urged the South to take the lead in preserving the racial integrity of American whites...
Julie started dating a fellow cast member in a Carleton play. They had never slept together, she charges in a civil suit, until he came to her dorm room one night, uninvited, and raped her. Weeks later, she says, he ripped her dress at a play rehearsal and grabbed her exposed breast. Still she told no one. "If I had been raped by a stranger, I would have told someone. But to be raped by a friend -- I began to wonder, Whom do you trust?" She struggled to hold her life and education together, but finally could manage no longer...
...other students, Kristene and Karen, claim to have suffered similar experiences at the hands of another student; all four of the Carleton women have filed suit against the college. They claim the school knew these men had a history of sexual abuse and did nothing to prevent their attacking again. Even after the men were found guilty of sexual harassment, they were allowed to remain on campus, and the victims were barred from warning their dorm mates under the college's privacy policy. The local police chief says that in the past six years, no Carleton official has brought...
...Carleton President Stephen Lewis Jr. explains that he is acutely aware of the problem of rape on campus, which is why the sexual-harassment policy was created in the first place. He believes the four students objected not so much to the procedures as to the outcome. All were advised of the option of going to the police. "These women chose to go to the university hearing board but didn't like the result, and now they're suing," says Lewis, who arrived on campus in the fall of 1987, after two of the alleged rapes took place. "We understand...