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Several speakers explored the relationship between alcohol and sexual assault at last night’s talk "Rape or Sex with a Buzz?" as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and discussed the difficulty in distinguishing victim and felon in rape cases involving alcohol.
"The assumption is often that the woman was drunk and the man was not at fault," she said, adding that the victim is often blamed for appearing promiscuous or not putting up a fight. "In the face of general and even legal acceptance of violence against women, we need to...
Although this united opposition to the Democratic establishment is healthy for the Republican opposition, the Tea Party’s rhetoric is not. Calling the president of the United States a socialist is the type of extreme language the Republican Party needs to disassociate itself from, and using similarly harsh...
"Two equally incapacitated people are not suffering the same harm," Murphy said. "People have the right to know what it means to make the choice to have alcohol or drugs and either impose yourself on another or submit to having sex."
She said that the law offers protections for inanimate property—for example, if a person is too drunk to sign a contract about his or her house, the contract is considered involuntary and therefore null. But the law falls short in terms of evaluating consent regarding autonomy over...