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...Sergeant Pauline Carter-Wells described the assault in the parking lot of St. Paul’s Church as “sexual assault with intent to rape...
Officers also discussed the availability of Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) classes for students and community members to learn basic self defense...
...Mansfield’s foibles are our own. We, too, assume that there are no perpetrators among us, and that rape could never happen in our own clubs and social spaces. “Rape” and “rapist” are words that we often reserve for certain kinds of assault, like stranger rape, or rape involving screams and bruises. Yet perpetrators rarely have letters on their forehead, “R” for rapist, and date rape sometimes leaves little physical trace. The fact is, rape can be as simple as doing something that...
Last Spring a 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...