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...result, the burden of proof in recantation cases is on those challenging the conviction, and the decision of the judge rehearing evidence is virtually never second-guessed by appeals courts. After listening to Webb, 23, explain that she made up the kidnaping and rape eight years ago because she feared she was pregnant by her boyfriend, Judge Samuels weighed her statements against what he had heard at the 1979 trial. He concluded she was less believable now and seemed to have a "selective recollection" of events. As Samuels told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter last week, "Her demeanor was totally...
...answer lies in the reality that every year, Harvard students are directly, personally affected by sexual assault. The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study (2000) estimated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years and that between 80 to 90 percent of all survivors know their attackers. So then why don’t we hear their voices or see their faces? Sexual violence is vastly underreported; the same study indicated that over 84 percent of survivors do not report their attacks to the police. The stark reality...
What is equally disturbing is what a silent or inactive community says to its perpetrators. If no one were to speak up, attend a vigil, go to an event about rape myths, or any other educative or informative event, would we know what the appropriate boundaries of our actions are? Would we know how to communicate, or how to intervene to potentially prevent sexual violence? Would we know how to support survivors? Would perpetrators understand that their behavior and actions are hurtful, and that their community will not tolerate them? Probably not. We can all participate in and benefit from...
Hemel doesn’t seem to care that Thernstrom told the media he “felt like a rape victim” because students criticized his lecture. As a result, he declared, he would never teach the course again. Thernstrom told me the administration “should have come out swinging” at the three black women who had disagreed with...
Female undergraduates were quick to brainstorm several pressing issues, including domestic violence, rape, poverty, and AIDS...