Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdoors is not the only place to which Thursday's marchers will call attention. Most rapes of college age women occur indoors, by men they know. The organizers of this year's march are placing particular emphasis on the frequency of "date" or acquaintance rape, the most common form of rape at Harvard...
Sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the evening's events form part of a national effort to protest rape and violence against women. Similar events occur at colleges nationwide every spring...
Accidents occur in the best of regulated families and notably also in rather evidently unregulated ones such as Harvard's. Thus the proposed award for distinguished public service to Mr. Edwin Meese III. But I do not write to join in the present storm of criticism, tempting as that may be. The problem now, in a popular Washington phrase of our day, is damage control. That cannot be achieved by escape, as was so brilliantly accomplished in the matter of a degree for President Ronald Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording...
Consequently, Ohio State runs a series of programs focusing on beliefs about rape. Stanford requires incoming freshmen to hear a seminar outlining usual circumstances of date rape. Auburn financed a videotape "It Still Hurts" which reenacts a campus party where a date rape might occur. Swarthmore ran a large workshop on rape in the fall of 1984 resulting in a student-produced videotape. And Cornell runs encounter groups in which students discuss date pressures...
Many colleges began ambitious programs about date rape only after serious instances became public. Strong student reaction pressured the adminstrations to do something. Harvard does not have to wait for such an event to occur...