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Harvard undergraduates are almost evenly split between support for recommendations made by the College's Date Rape Task Force and those made by the Undergraduate Council last semester, according to a poll conducted last week by The Crimson...
Fifty-five percent of the 436 students surveyed at random said they agree with the Undergraduate Council's definition of rape as any act of sexual intercourse that occurs despite a person's expressed unwillingness...
...would like to register my quite definite support of the Date Rape Task Force's definition of rape as sex without specific consent. The opposing position endorsed by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), requiring clear evidence of dissent, or evidence of threats, intimidation and/or coercion, would put the burden on the woman to dissent--that is, a burden of action, not proof. If the definition of rape necessitates explicit dissent, the investigation of any rape will focus on the actions of the woman rather than of the man--his explicit concern for and request of the woman...
...have sex with a woman until he is sure he has her specific consent. Therefore the burden must be on the initiator of a sexual encounter to seek explicit consent, and without such consent, in indifference to an absence of an expression of consent, what occurs must be a rape. Harvard's internal rules are a perfect place to define clearly and explicitly the limits of acceptable behavior in this respect, and the Date Rape Task Force's proposed definition can only help students be a good deal clearer about what occurs in sexual relations. Lydia Alix Fillingham Asst. Prof...
Another wrote, "If nothing else, it's time to do something about Brown's fucked up sexual assault policy which defines rape as a crime against the tenets of community behavior and not against the woman." U. PENNSYLVANIA...