Word: personalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relationship between the attacker and the attacked, but they fundamental act of rape-forcing someone to have sex against their will-remains the same and should be punished severely. Rape is not a lesser crime if it is committed by a friends or acquaintance or if the person raped has been drinking. To attempt to distinguish degrees of punishment according to the context surrounding the rape diminishes the idea that rape itself, no matter the context, is a physically and psychologically destructive act committed against an individual...
Harvard is right to have a strict policy against sexual assault and rape in its Standards of Conduct for students: "Rape includes any act of sexual intercourse that takes place against a person's will or that is accompanied by physical coercion or the threat of bodily injury. Unwillingness may be expressed verbally of physically. Rape may also include intercourse unwillingness or its prevented from resisting as a result of conditions including, but not limited to, those caused by the intake of alcohol or drug," The College however must clarity its position punishment for the act of rape; administrators insist...
...social occasion, and I was having a casual chat with a staff person from one of the lvy League sister schools (not Harvard/Radcliffe). This woman mentioned, in passing, that the presidents of these colleges held regular meetings, and, among them, the Radcliffe president was regarded as mildly ridiculous because she had the title and the salary and came to the meetings but had no responsibility for admissions, instruction, discrimination, tuition, housing, campus crises or other badges of office...
...last time a Harvard-affiliated person wasthe victim of a reported stranger rape on campuswas in March 1996, when a student was assaulted inAdams House...
...three things I do--teaching, researchingand writing a new textbook on introductoryphysics--each really requires one full person'sattentions," Mazur said...