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Gross also referenced the Leaning Committee’s study of sexual assault at Harvard, which emphasized the link between intoxication and the incidence of rape and other acts of sexual violence...
...that Harvard has buckled down and set its bureaucratic wheels whirring to take rape seriously, the administration is ready to eliminate whatever causes it can identify. Casting its eyes over the usual suspects, it has quickly settled on alcohol as the source of trouble...
...only booze were to blame, we could bottle up a host of social ills by restricting its use. But sexual assault is not something that comes out of kegs. Stupidity is, along with poor vision and reduced physical strength, but these are not things which in themselves lead to rape. Alcohol is a poor excuse, and a prevention plan centered on it will make a poor policy...
...truth universally acknowledged—indeed, almost a platitude—that rape and the conditions for its persistence are found within final clubs. Amidst the wood paneling, overstuffed armchairs and dead animals, under the framed letters from presidents and buried in the plush of Persian carpets, it multiplies and thrives. Everybody knows it, and some of those who choose to enter instinctively hold their breath to avoid breathing it in. But pity the fools who expose themselves every day, thinking they are immune...
...attitudes that lead to rape don’t start in college, but it’s here that they spread and come to fruition. The boys in the club mutually reinforce these attitudes—they’re institutionalized by initiation rights and the traditions enshrined in club memory. It starts with male privilege, a phenomenon produced and reproduced by men who feel profoundly alienated from women; it spreads through human contact. Boys come in and pick up the mores. Maybe they’re not all bad kids to begin with—I know they?...