Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College next fall will offer incoming freshmen educational workshops on the issues and problems of acquaintance rape and bring an expert on the topic to Harvard to train peer counselors...
...pilot program, conducted by students, marks the first time the University has attempted to provide preventive measures for the problems of acquaintance rape, said Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College, who is responsible for handling sexual and peer harassment complaints...
...students said they began their drive after Dean of Freshman Henry C. Moses refused to grant their proposal because he did not want to give all other peer counselors time slots during freshman week...
...members also concluded that peer pressure and the presence of an instructor would make it inappropriate to put decisions about meeting at the shantytown to a class vote, council members said...
...GROWING FRUSTRATION with the University's lack of response is one of SASC's stated reasons for building the shantytown. But a deeper reason, it seems to me, is frustration over the continued absence of peer support. There has been no student groundswell, even after a year of increasing violence in South Africa, and visits to Harvard by Jesse Jackson and Bishop Desmond W. Tutu. After years of "consciousness raising" without divestment, no one seriously expects the Corporation to change its collective mind. Now the activist tactic is not to raise consciousness but to raise the ante--that...