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Last Tuesday I attended a date rape workshop at the first-year entryway where I am a prefect. The statistics given were staggering: One out of four college women have been raped, usually by someone they know. In one study, 30 percent of college men said they would commit rape if they thought they could get away with it. When the word "rape" was not used, 50 percent of the men surveyed said they would commit acts meeting the legal definition of rape...
Contending that all members of the College community are entitled to the right to "bodily safety and integrity," the Task Force set out to review educational programs, couseling services, the procedures used to deal with date rape cases and whether the Ad Board is the appropriate body for hearing cases of rape...
...Rape includes any act of sexual intercourse that occurs without the expressed consent of the person, or is accompanied by physical force or threat of bodily injury. Lack of consent may be indicated physically or verbally and needs only to be expressed once...
...Rape may also include intercourse when the person is incapable of expressing or withholding reasoned consent, or is prevented from resisting, because of the intake of alcohol or drugs. Rape includes not only non-consensual or forced vaginal intercourse, but may also include the penetration of any bodily orifice with a body part or other object...
...Rape is defined as "sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse by a person with another person who is compelled to submit by force and against his will or by threat of bodily injury, or sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a child under sixteen years...