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Radcliffe may be taking a strong stand on women's issues somewhere. But not around here. The report talks about working to improve the "environment" for women at Harvard. Yet on questions of crucial importance to female undergraduates--for instance, establishing date rape workshops for incoming first-year students and improving the escort service--Linda Wilson and her colleagues have been strangely silent. They are going to have to come up with more than slick public relations phrases if they are really interested in improving the environment for women here. And if they aren't, they should at least...
...Palm Beach the identity of the woman who accused Ted Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith, of rape has been no secret since shortly after the alleged Easter-weekend assault. Her name and address have been so widely circulated that dozens of journalists have been staking out her home in nearby Jupiter for weeks. On April 7, her name appeared in London's Sunday Mirror. Yet the police and U.S. news organizations, following a long tradition of protecting the anonymity of rape victims, had declined to disclose it. Then last week the Globe broke the taboo...
...true that women must, in this society, protect themselves from their psychological and physical vulnerability to rape, even by those they have reason to trust--classmates, boyfriends, friends of friends. Being clear about one's own desires and limits, not drinking to the point of losing control, going to and leaving parties with a friend, are all reasonable recommendations for women to follow for their own safety...
Ultimately women cannot protect themselves from all potential circumstances in which a rape might take place--just as all of us are unable to guarantee that no one will ever break into our homes, steal our cars or physically assault...
...rules of rape avoidance in the life of any man, however, are clearer. In fact, there is only one rule. If you're not sure that your partner is willing, stop and ask. The consequences of doing so are slight, and temporary--embarrassment, hurt pride, the end of the evening. The consequences of failing to do so are likely to be traumatizing and lifelong--for everyone involved...