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While we share the staff's concern about acquaintance rape, we must voice our objections to their endorsement of such a board, ambiguous definition of the crime with little regard for the implications such a definition may hold...
...supplying such an expansive definition of acquaintance rape--one which differs from Massachusetts state law--the undergraduate Council has allowed the subversion of justice to a minority of feminists seeking to promote their own radical agenda...
...council had postponed the grants meeting for two weeks so that it could discuss acquaintance rape...
...decided to take care of the date rape issue first and then go on with the grants," according to Rico Reyes '93, the chair of the council's finance committee. "Everyone's still going to get their money, it'll just be a couple of weeks late...
...Take Back the Night panel on rape and the law this week, Nancy Gertner, a feminist defense lawyer in Boston who specializes in cases of violence against women, offered a fitting analogy for this debate. Doctors, she said, are not allowed to operate on a person simply because the patient does not say anything. An operation requires a yes. Not similarly requiring a yes for sex somehow implies that an initiator has less responsibility with his or her partner's body...