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...column about Duke rape case (“Rushing to Rape,” Apr. 18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 describes the injustice that the now-exonerated indictees have faced. Unfortunately, she also chooses to offer unwarranted inferences about their moral character. She says they are “probably not the most respectable college students on the planet” and are “not likely” her kind of dating material...
...this Friday's Crimson, the names of two letter writers were accidentally switched due to a production error. The letter "No Grounds to Question Duke Lacrosse Players' Character" attributed to Leah M. Littman and Tracy E. Nowski was actually written by Joshua A. Barro and the letter "Portrayal of Rape Ignores Statistics and Misses Nuance" attributed to Joshua A. Barro was actually written by Leah M. Litman and Tracy E. Nowski. The Crimson apologizes to the letter writers and its readers for this serious mistake...
...herself against violence by taking responsibility for her own social and sexual behavior. Of course, actual research concluding that education on the prevalence, consequences, and forms of sexual violence is the most effective form of prevention would beg to differ, as would the many chaste, sober individuals who are raped. No matter what someone drinks, wears, or chooses to do, they do not ask to, nor should they expect to be raped; only a rapist can ultimately prevent a rape...
This being said, false accusations of rape, like any other crime, do occur, and at the same frequency as those of any other crime. But these false accusations are not motivated by morning after regrets; morning after regrets lead to awkward dining hall interactions—they do not generate the time and energy necessary to pursue a rape charge. Announcing you have been the victim of rape does not raise your social status; there is no special incentive to falsely claim you were a rape victim. Any false accusations of a crime have their victims. As Caldwell noted...
...light candles at the vigil, especially because when they come forward as survivors, they will face Caldwell’s suspicious analogies to the false accusations at Duke and will be confronted with her doubts given her belief that not “all of these [incidents] actually constituted rape.” We suggest that Caldwell’s “victims of sexual violence politics” organize their own week and have their own candlelight vigil to raise awareness about the prevalence of false accusations. Otherwise, Caldwell, you can organize...