Word: datings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group proposed organizing a confidentialsurvey to compile statistics relating to date rapeat Harvard...
Other ideas discussed by the group includedbringing more outside speakers to campus todiscuss date rape and making phone numbers ofcounseling services on campus more accessible...
This week's rape and assault allegations against Kirkland House sophomore Joshua M. Elster have shocked the Harvard community. Whether or not the allegations prove true, Elster's arrest has served as a catalyst for overdue discussions about the prevalence of rape and date rape on campus and it has exposed the University's ability--whether intentional or not--to suppress sensitive, yet public information. Perhaps this unfortunate incident will force the administration to finally realize its responsibility to its students...
Regardless of the outcome of this case, students should be armed with the knowledge of how to protect themselves and report crimes and how to prevent date rape from occurring. "[If Elster is guilty], this is not an isolated incident," a staffer of Response, a peer counseling group, told The Crimson Tuesday night. According to a study conducted in 1995 by the Center for Disease Control and reported in the Journal of the American College Health Association, 13.1 percent of college students surveyed had ever been forced to have sexual intercourse against their will...
...College should mount an awareness campaign about rape on campus and, like many other colleges, hold mandatory information sessions on date rape for all students. Harvard must also provide more highly-publicized, supportive counseling for victims...