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...days after news of the Joshua Elster rape case broke, I went to a roundtable discussion for women to discuss the possible ramifications of the accusation against him. Huddled in a Memorial Hall classroom, we began to express our feelings on the alleged rape itself and, more importantly, what it could mean for women on this campus. The biggest topic to come out of that discussion was how sad it is that it took the arrest of one of our classmates for women to wake up and realize that we are not as safe here as we thought we were...
Living in the bubble that is Harvard Yard, I had forgotten that there was a real world where real things (like rape) happen. The Elster case was a shock, but it can easily be classified as an isolated event. With the exception of the ad-hoc committee that formed to foster greater awareness of rape on campus, all the excitement died down shortly after the case broke. Life has gone on--and not necessarily with any greater sense of awareness...
...barely thought about my own unsafe behavior after the rape case. Since I began going to school here, I've done all those things women aren't supposed to do. I've walked alone through the Yard at four o'clock in the morning. I've gone to shady places with people I didn't know all that well...
When I first confronted the man who raped me, his only comment was, "You kept on saying no, but I thought that you would change your mind once I started." He never thought the incident was a rape--even though I fought to keep him from penetrating me--nor did he consider himself a rapist. His friends assured him that I was lying...
...Rape at Harvard will not cease to be an issue once the last murmurs from the coverage of the recent alleged incident die down. It is a subject that must be fought with information and compassion, not passivity and ignorance...