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...female college activist groups go, the Network of Enlightened Women, or NeW, is a very different breed. They don't distribute condoms on the Quad or march for a woman's right to choose. Instead, they bake chocolate chip cookies and protest campus productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a controversial play about female sexuality that conservatives say degrades women and glorifies rape...
...spent on criticizing my school’s flaws, I started to truly appreciate just how unusual and special a place Harvard is. Since then, I’ve gone to a fun party or two, stayed close with those distantly located freshman roommates, and enjoyed living in the Quad. Most importantly, I’ve come to realize that although we all know the faults of this University, we also must remember what and who Harvard has given us. We might have had to endure Siberian weather, grueling Core courses, and trying social challenges, but we?...
...wake of the rape, the security of the campus came under heavy scrutiny, especially in the Quad area and on the walk from the river Houses to the Quad. Then-master of North House Hanna Hastings charged the University with inadequately providing for the safety of Quad residents. In particular, Hastings pointed out that only one guard was employed to patrol all three Quad Houses, while each of the river Houses had its own guard and six guards roamed Harvard Yard, who mostly keep bicycle riders from mounting their bikes in the Yard...
Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, then-president of RUS, called for swifter changes, including a lit path to the Quad. Renteln told The Crimson that she was “afraid we may be getting into a bureaucratic snarl...
...violence against women have not entirely disappeared. In 2003, a string of students were sexually assaulted in Cambridge Common, leading the University to install emergency call phones to improve safety on the walk to the Quad. The Harvard-operated phones, marked by distinctive blue lights, can be used to directly summon police. Earlier requests for such phones had been denied because Harvard did not own the land. It took the series of assaults for Harvard to agree to the callboxes, which were installed in the fall of 2004 at a cost of $12,000 to the University...