Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original pamphlet "was a very official document, and rape is not just an official thing," Orza said. The new booklet uses the word "survivor" instead of "victim," as a "less stigmatizing, more empowering" term, she added. Someone who has been raped is "no longer helpless after the crime," she explained...
...students wrote the pamphlets last year, with co-sponsorship by UHS and the Harvard Police Department. The project began after the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) expressed concern that a brochure on rape UHS had published since 1978 was "inadequate," co-authors Michele J. Orza '84 and Robert D. Slate '83, said...
...book was a good start but it left out so many issues," said Slate. New material includes a definition of "acquaintance rape," a description of rape of men by men, facts about "race and rape," first hand anonymous accounts by Harvard students who are rape victims, and a poem by Marge Plenty...
...acquaintances rape session cites the fast that many rapes are by friends or acquaintances--even on-lovers--and therefore often go unreported...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, last week called the new pamphlet "a powerful, literate document." He said, "It breaks new ground in that it talks about the legal definition of rape, and it tries to encourage the survivor to insist as dignity...