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...There is no good way to handle it once it's happened. We must think, instead, of how to prevent it," Honnet says...
...student counselor says the Administrative Board, which handles student discipline cases, is "notorious for inaction," and Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation and a sexual harassment hearing officer, says she agrees. She says that a new ad hoc committee has been formed within the Ad Board to hear special cases that relate to issues of peer harassment. The problem, she says, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...
Attempts to heighten awareness about the statistics have begun recently. Some groups have peppered the campus with posters containing statistics on rape. Honnet is the coordinator of a recently formed committee, the Working Group on Peer Sexual Harassment, that is also trying to increase education on the problem...
Counselors at Response suggest that at coed schools such as Harvard, more relationship problems lead to a higher incidence of date and acquaintance rape. Honnet, however, says that a coed school might "have an advantage in that men and women living together as friends have greater potential for understanding and communication...
Anorexics tend to control their emotions in group therapy. Honnet warns that the deeper the anorexic or bulimic gets enmeshed in her problem, the harder it is to get out. "The price is much too high...