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CLUH's statement is the latest episode in the debate that began last February, when the Date Rape Task Force--established in 1990 by then-Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--defined rape as sex without specific consent...
CLUH's original response, issued last spring, supported the Task Force definition of date rape. The revised position continues to endorse the majority of the Task Force's recommendations, but differs on the question of explicit consent, the CLUH statement said...
...council also created a controversial special category called "sexual negligence," in which consent is not explicitly obtained before intercourse...
...aides call "evolution," the governor's position changed--most radically when he entered the race for the presidency. He now says he supports government funding for abortion through Medicare subsidies and opposes "any federal attempt to limit access to abortion through mandatory waiting periods or parental or spousal consent requirements...
...response was amended to include a category called "sexual negligence," intended to punish nonconsentual sex while not treating it as rape. The term encompasses acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...