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...means all-male final clubs, or the pictures on the wall being all men. It’s something we really gravitate toward,” said Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, former president and current vice-president of RUS. “If only we could confront that within ourselves...
Shirts flapping in Tercentenary Theater and “Rape Happens at Harvard” signs raised aloft in the yard are unavoidable conversation starters. CASV and Take Back the Night (TBTN) week use these to confront students and administrators, making the issue of sexual violence impossible to disregard...
...more information should be made available about how to deal with sexual assault itself. Take Back the Night Week provides an excellent example of programs that can give students a greater understanding of sexual assault, tools to recognize warning signs in their peers about unhealthy relationships and strategies to confront those whom they think may have been assaulted. The fact that fraternities like Sigma Chi took a prominent role in this year’s awareness events is an encouraging sign that these substantive sessions can attract a broad audience. The budget for these awareness events, such as the educational...
...than 3% of its victims but infected so many that at least 20 million people died in just 18 months--more than were killed in combat in World War I. And until health officials know for sure what they're dealing with, they tend to be overcautious. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely," says WHO spokesman Dick Thompson, "you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission...
...It’s easy to ignore numbers, but it’s art that stays with us—an image, a tune—and in the end may force us to confront our reality,” McGregor says...