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...Date rape happens at Harvard, and with alarmingly more frequency than the University acknowledges, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) discloses or the undergraduate community hardly ever pauses to contemplate. There were two undergraduate date rapes during the month of November alone. That total, however, only represents the number of date rapes reported to HUPD...
...Harvard community is left to guess at how many other sexual assaults have taken place within the Houses and Yard dormitories that will never be named or investigated, and will forever remain an unspoken unjustified wrong. These other rapes did not have to be violent, dramatic, or to have taken place under unfamiliar, uncomfortable circumstances. They merely had to have been an involuntary penetration of any orifice, by a person the victim knew beforehand. Date rape, in fact, a phenomena only first most common type of sexual assault. A court of law, however, makes no distinction between rape and date...
...never possibly know how many rapes actually take place within Harvard's undergraduate community but the opportunities for such a crime are profuse. The variables in the equation6500 young adults, unprecedented unsupervised sleeping arrangements, alcohol and drugs such as Special K and Rohypinol--all too easily add up to conditions in which rape can almost effortlessly result...
...deny that Penry has a low IQ, but they claim he is not nearly so limited as he is portrayed. Texas attorney general John Cornyn has alleged that Penry "can be purposefully deceptive." Prosecutors point out that Penry, who had been on parole less than three months for a rape conviction when he killed Carpenter, confessed to the crime and said, "I told her that I...hated to kill her, but I had to so she wouldn't squeal on me." A clear indication, they contend, that he discerned the gravity of his act. The stay left Carpenter's family...
Panel discussions on "Rape and Sexual Assault at Harvard," "Self-Segregation at Harvard," and "Where does God fit in at Harvard?" will be held...