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...last Friday’s Crimson, the names of two letter writers were accidentally switched due to a production error. The letter “No Grounds to Question Duke Lacrosse Players’ Character” attributed to Leah M. Littman and Tracy E. Nowski was actually written by Joshua A. Barro and the letter “Portrayal of Rape Ignores Statistics and Misses Nuance” attributed to Joshua A. Barro was actually written by Leah M. Litman and Tracy E. Nowski. The letters with their correct authors are reprinted below. The Crimson apologizes to the letter...
...column about Duke rape case (“Rushing to Rape,” Apr. 18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 describes the injustice that the now-exonerated indictees have faced. Unfortunately, she also chooses to offer unwarranted inferences about their moral character. She says they are “probably not the most respectable college students on the planet” and are “not likely” her kind of dating material...
Correction In this Friday's Crimson, the names of two letter writers were accidentally switched due to a production error. The letter "No Grounds to Question Duke Lacrosse Players' Character" attributed to Leah M. Litman and Tracy E. Nowski was actually written by Joshua A. Barro and the letter "Portrayal of Rape Ignores Statistics and Misses Nuance" attributed to Joshua A. Barro was actually written by Leah M. Litman and Tracy E. Nowski. The Crimson apologizes to the letter writers and its readers for this serious mistake...
...argument is an absurd non sequitur. She argues that because there are false accusations of rape, we should focus on women’s responsibility for their sexual behavior rather than attackers’ guilt. She fails to mention that deliberately false accusations of rape are exceedingly rare; the Duke Lacrosse case is just one sensationalized example. All accounts show that tens of thousands of rape cases each year are unreported or grossly mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior” will change...
While we regret the prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke Lacrosse case, we regret even more that over 50 women experience sexual assault at Harvard each year. We choose instead to lend our sympathy and support to the hundreds of thousands of rape and sexual assault victims nationwide. We hope that in this week students from across the political and social spectrum can join us in speaking out against sexual violence and standing together in support of rape victims...