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...Presentation and Discussion with KatieKoestner. Koestner, date rape victim andnational awareness advocate, will discuss her ownexperience as well as ways to increase awarenessat Harvard-Radcliffe. Lyman Common Room...
...Katie Koestner was a virgin when she was allegedly raped by a student she had been dating at William and Mary College. The dean took her to the campus police, but steered her away from the outside authorities, she says. When she asked for an internal investigation, the accused man got to question her first, and then she had her turn. At 2:30 a.m., after 7 1/2 hours, he was found guilty of sexual assault. Days later she learned his penalty: he was barred from entering any dorm or fraternity house other than his own for four years...
...later wrote in the campus newspaper that he had suffered the "terrible consequences of being falsely accused." He said he had been dating Koestner for three weeks; one night they slept together, without having sex, and then early the next morning, "without any protest or argument on the part of Ms. Koestner, we engaged in intercourse." He was found guilty, he said, not for physically forcing Koestner to have sex, but for applying emotional pressure...
...debate grew more heated when Koestner went public with her story. Since then she has received stacks of letters and calls of support. Women raped decades ago phone and thank her for saving their daughters. Though the school defends its procedures, vice president W. Samuel Sadler says that "Katie's / coming forward has personalized the issue and led to a more intensive discussion, and frankly improved input...
...Chicago a fortune-teller told Mrs. Sarah Koestner, 26, that her 7-year-old son would lose his sight and that her husband would desert her. Leaving a note to the husband directing that the son's eyes be tested twice a year, Mrs. Sarah Koestner rented a ninth-story hotel room, jumped out the window...