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Last Thursday evening, representatives from CPD and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) met with community members at a safety forum, prompted by a Dec. 2 assault with intent to rape near St. Paul’s Church. In that incident, an undergraduate was struck from behind and forced to the ground in the church’s parking lot by an unidentified...
While Iraq’s neighbors, the United States and all of the international community have suffered because of Saddam Hussein’s rule, the vast majority of the regime’s crimes—which range from genocide to systematic rape to assorted other crimes against humanity—were committed against the Iraqi people. It is therefore the Iraqis, and not Americans or the international community, who must come to terms with the horrific legacy of Saddam Hussein...
Last spring, the Faculty Committee on Sexual Assault at Harvard issued a report saying that there had been 65 complaints of date rape or attempted date rape at Harvard in four years. Rape is a cruel fact that casts doubt on the equality of the sexes. Because rape is a crime virtually always committed by men using their physical strength, when women seek to tempt men into unwanted sexual acts, they have to use means other than the physical: they resort to a seduction that becomes an indirect, non-violent, and non-criminal means of coercion—a stealth...
Turning from the extreme of rape, there has been much improvement from my day in the everyday relations between the sexes. Undergraduate men and women see one another every day; they study together and eat together. Everyone now gets to meet many more people of the opposite sex. In these meetings there is less pressure, less artificiality—you can be yourself. I remember weekend dates brought into the dining hall to stand in line for dinner, running a gauntlet of leering envy or contempt. There is more informality now; students have fewer dates but go out in groups...
Tensions on campus between Students for Choice and Harvard Right to Life (HRL) flared up this fall when HRL initiated a postering campaign that featured a rape victim who expressed remorse for having had an abortion...