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...other hand, those who downplay the problem should come to realize that date rape is a crime of uniquely intimate cruelty. While the body is violated, the spirit is maimed. How long will it take, once the wounds have healed, before it is possible to share a walk on a beach, a drive home from work or an evening's conversation without always listening for a quiet alarm to start ringing deep in the back of the memory of a terrible crime...
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What many learn first is that within a cloistered courtyard, rape is an easy crime: doors are left unlocked, visitors come and go, and female students give classmates the benefit of the doubt. College officials have led the effort to raise consciousness about the problem through rape-awareness weeks, video series, pamphlets, training manuals and posters: DATE RAPE IS VIOLENCE, NOT A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. But when a really nasty incident occurs, the instinct too often is to handle it quietly and try to make it go away...
That discussion goes on at colleges everywhere. "It seems like date and acquaintance rape is the rule rather than the exception on campuses today," says Frank Carrington, a consultant for Security on Campus, a nonprofit group based in Gulph Mills, Pa. "And the way the universities treat it is to cover up and protect their image while a tremendous outrage is building...
Nowhere is it building faster than at Carleton College, Minnesota's prestigious private liberal-arts school and, in 1983, one of the first in the nation to establish a sexual-harassment policy. In the language of the university's judicial code, "rape" doesn't officially exist. School administrators call it "sexual harassment" or "advances without sanction." But those phrases don't seem very useful when Julie, Amy, Kristene and Karen try to describe what happened to them...