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Several college attorneys say the consent agreement may take some steam out of a private suit filed by a Wesleyan graduate on behalf of about 100,000 students. The suit is slowly making progress in New York where a federal judge is expected to rule on class certification within the next two months...
Lawyers say that any admission of wrongdoing in the consent decree filed on Wednesday would have certainly helped the student's case...
...record straight: my parents did not place The Ad, that was not my MCAT score, those were not my grades, and that horribly pompous picture was taken without my consent. My only memory is being fed grainy applesauce and waking up hours later in a dark suit...
...University of Southern California, contends that reporting the name in the Palm Beach case and not in the Central Park jogger case proves "how much acquaintance rape is still not considered to be a real rape." Date-rape cases can be messy: Was it an unambivalent lack of consent, or mixed signals, next-day regrets, confusion from large amounts of alcohol? When a charge is made and there is no clear-cut physical evidence, determining whether a crime has been committed can come down to the victim's word against that of the suspect, whose name is known...
...form of protection that perpetuates the victim's sense of shame. Estrich, who was raped in 1974, wrote a book about her ordeal in 1987 in the hope of persuading other victims to come forward. But like most feminists, she vehemently opposes the "outing" of rape victims without their consent. "It serves no purpose," she says. "Has the public gotten any more information it needed? The answer is no. Has a woman been branded and humiliated, her ability to go on with her life, to order a pizza, go to the hairdresser without being known as 'that woman' been permanently...