Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACTIVISTS ARE NOT usually afraid of the outdoors. Every spring, hundreds of students rally out in the Yard and on the Boston Common. But for women, the very areas in which they rally or walk by day, become hostile and threatening at night...
...outdoors is not the only place to which Thursday's marchers will call attention. Most rapes of college age women occur indoors, by men they know. The organizers of this year's march are placing particular emphasis on the frequency of "date" or acquaintance rape, the most common form of rape at Harvard...
This year, the marchers will go up beyond the Science Center, across the Cambridge Common, continue past the river houses along the Charles and conclude in the Yard. Traditionally, the march has covered "dangerous, frightening places" which are unsafe for women to travel in alone at night, said Garber, who is also RUS secretary...
...march route includes the river houses in order to stress the the most common form of rape at Harvard--date or acquaintance rape--according to Garber. Several speeches will also focus on date rape...
...cases like this one--where one academic relocates for the sake of a spouse's career-have become more and more common in recent years...