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Numerous committee meetings and seemingly endless rounds of campus controversy later, the Date Rape Task Force garnered a less than lukewarm response to its proposed definition for date rape this week. And rejection of the definition, which states that sex with a "lack of consent" constitutes rape, means that the Task Force's efforts may simply result in maintaining the status...
...Task Force's definition of rape is "any actof sexual intercourse that occurs without theexpressed consent of the person, or is accompaniedby physical force or threat of bodily injury...
...decision to detail an "expressed unwillingness" definition comes after the Administrative Board on Monday rejected the task force's definition of date rape as sexual intercourse without expressed consent...
...task force, a committee commissioned by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and composed of students and faculty, defined date rape as "any act of sexual intercourse that occurs without the expressed consent of the person...
While proponents of the Task Force definition said the college environment justified the narrower definition, Dershowitz says the concept of expressed consent has dangerous implications...