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...panelists spoke about different issues relating to the definition of rape adopted by the Administrative Board, which necessitates active dissent for rape to occur, and the definition originally proposed by the Date Rape Task Force, which would necessitate active consent by both parties for consensual sex to occur...
Panelists included Naomi M. Hamburg '93, a member of the Date Rape Task Force; Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, chair of the Undergraduate Council; Minna M. Jarvanpaa '93, co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students; Dianne M. Reeder '93, editor of the Harvard Salient and Monica Salamon '95, the assistant director for general affairs for the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH...
Panelists discussed the potential for false accusations of rape at length. Jarvenpaa said statistics showed a low number of false accusations of rape, but Salamon reiterated that any law must work on the assumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, thus leaving the burden of proving guilt on the accuser...
Reeder said she believed the Ad Board has no right to try date rape cases. Such cases, she said, should be taken to an actual court, not a board of the University...
...called for official workshops educating students about date rape, as did Jarvenpaa, Hamburg and Salamon...