Word: consented
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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...
...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...
...Miller and financial aid officers say that colleges around the country, perhaps even Harvard, will have to abandon need-blind admissions and need-based aid in favor of a merit-based system. And the consent decree may accelerate the change...
There are already hints that the consent decree may be taking its toll...