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...report's rape provisions that govern sexual intercourse, including such activities as vaginal sex and fellatio, apply penalties only to male offenders. The provisions permit the Administrative Board to sanction men for engaging in sex with a willing partner whom the Board later deems was incapable of "reasoned consent" because of alcohol intake. According to report coauthor Dean Janet Viggiani, mere alcohol influence, rather than full-fledged intoxication, can justify a rape conviction. A man can be convicted even if the sexual act was non-forcible and initiated by a woman less intoxicated than...
While acquaintance rape cases are obviously difficult to adjudicate, the deans' comments revealed a lack of understanding about a man's responsibility to gain consent for sexual activity and about a woman's right to have a "no"--any stated no--mean no. Later both Jewett and Wolcowitz apologized. Even so, cases of sexual misconduct are still decided by an Ad Board committee, a fact which has made some students feel uncomfortable about reporting cases of acquaintance rape...
Included in the Task Force's definition of rape is "any act of sexual intercourse that occurs without the expressed consent of the person [either male or female], or is accompanied by physical force or threat of bodily injury." The policy goes on to state that "[I]ack of consent may be indicated physically or verbally and needs only to be expressed once." In addition, the Task Force called for a package of steps designed to increase awareness of the policy and the newly-written rules...
...question requires minors to get parental consent and wives to notify their husbands before having abortions. It also obliges doctors to inform abortion seekers about potential medical complications and mandates a 24-hour waiting period. Though the court could use the case to overturn Roe, it is more likely to rule narrowly on the merits of the Pennsylvania law. That could still open the way to a flood of other state restrictions...
...feminism has a large repressive fringe, self- caricaturing and often abysmally trivial, like the academic thought police who recently managed to get a reproduction of Goya's Naked Maja removed from a classroom at Pennsylvania State University; it has its loonies who regard all sex with men, even with consent, as a politicized form of rape. But does this in any way devalue the immense shared desire of millions of American women to claim the right of equality to men, to be free from sexual harassment in the workplace, to be accorded the reproductive rights to be individuals first...