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...Rape happens at Harvard. Indeed, 58 rapes happened at Harvard last year, according to an extrapolation from the latest University Health Services (UHS) survey. The same survey reports that the total number of sexual assault incidents has increased since last year, as has the number of students who reported being subject to unwanted sexual touching...
...women, many in tears, talked about the effect of sexual assault—including date rape and childhood sexual abuse—on their lives...
...Tuesday night, a large crowd came to hear Katie Koestner—whose experience going public with her story of date rape in the early 90s brought the issue to national attention—speak in Science Center...
...capture has sparked anew the debate over the proper role of women on the battlefield. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, was in Washington last week to urge a change in the Clinton-era reforms after the war. She argues that women in combat risk rape by their captors. The two other women missing from the 507th may well be POWs too, she notes. "Feminists are heralding this as a step forward for women's rights, but it's a step back for civilization," she says. "If we say it's O.K. to put women in combat...
Proponents of an expanded role for women in the military disagree. For one thing, if rape is the concern, men too have been victims while in captivity. Besides, women POWs are not new. There have been dozens of female prisoners in U.S. history, including about 90 nurses captured in the Philippines during World...