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...Koestner--date-rape poster-girl--received enormous attention when she first went national. Her case acted as a catalyst in the explosion of media attention to date rape. Her previous requests to speak here at Harvard had been previously denied by the administration. And While she seems like a relatively sympathetic figure, I wonder, why has she been successful...
...must have been a slow news day. Last Wednesday, The Crimson, inexplicably, decided that not only was Katie Koestner's Lyman Common Room appearance newsworthy, but that it also deserved, front-page, above-the-fold, coverage...
...Koestner could have emerged, without alteration, from Katie Roiphe's semi-literate but controversial polemic against date rape, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus. Hers is a textbook case of what occurs at that murky intersection where naivete, sexual jousting and irresponsibility collide...
...sympathy for Koestner is tempered by my understanding. of the facts, and by the fact that it is inconceivable to me, that in a situation where one's physical and mental health might be jeopardized, one would deliberately engage in behavior which would almost certainly guarantee that outcome...
...Koestner said she was nervous about coming toHarvard because she believes her rapist is inmedical school in the Boston area...