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Since 1995, Harvard has investigated six formalreports of rape--where the victim pressescharges--and seven reports of confidential rape,where the alleged victim does not want to proceedin court, according to McNamara...
Statistics from the Cambridge Police Department(CPD) show that 25 people reported they had beenraped in 1998 in the city. Only one of thoseincidents is classified as a "stranger" rape...
Nationally, about 20 percent of reported rapesare committed by suspects unknown to the victims,according to Susan Vickers, a legal coordinatorfor the Boston-area Rape Crisis Center
...case being discussed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday afternoon (News, March 9) was exceptionally sensitive, involving disciplinary action against a student accused of rape. Strong disciplinary action was going to be taken in any case; the debate was to determine the level of severity. Outside University Hall gathered students drumming and chanting, a happy little mob urging that "justice be done!" This would not be the first group of self-righteous protesters that tries to drown out debate with thuggish tactics, but the tactics were especially troubling in light of the case being discussed...
...Never before in my lifetime on university campuses have I seen students demanding a penalty for a classmate harsher than the one being considered by the administration. Much as I credit the seriousness of rape, I have to wonder at the political hysteria that has turned students against one of their own. Why this vindictiveness against a student already punished by the law and expelled from the campus for the next five years? Why the vendetta, the drumrolls, the slogans...