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Undergraduate Council Vice Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke '93 introduced proposals yesterday meant to resolve two controversial issues raised in last month's Date Rape Task Force report...
Heinicke's first report calls for a revised definition of rape requiring an "expression of unwillingness" on the part of the victim. The original task force definition of rape, which some council members called a "radical redefinition" from legal precedent, includes any sexual act without the "expressed consent" of both parties...
Heinicke said his two new proposals, which he first presented to the council's date rape subcommittee Wednesday, would provide a measure of consistency and clarity absent in the task force's recommendation...
Heinicke's revised definition of rape, which he says is consistent with Massachusetts law, stipulates that for a sexual act to be labelled rape, one party must explicitly express unwillingness. Heinicke and the task force both include sexual acts resulting in physical injury in his definition of rape...
...rape when nobody says anything?," Heinicke said in an interview last night. "That is technically sexual intercourse without consent [according to the task force definition]. My fear is that you will catch some innocent people by this wording...