Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called in on relief. This activity ranges from scoping girls and playing baseball trivia games to performing practical jokes and rough-housing. Among the funniest moments is when Frito calls Dave Winfield on the bullpen phone and pretends to be a police officer calling about a statuatory rape case involving the Yankee star...
...they say, in cases where a Harvard student is accused of date rape, the College's Administrative Board will do little if there is any hint of drug or alcohol use by either individual. The College has, however, formed an ad hoc committee within its Administrative Board to hear cases relating to peer harassment. The problem, says Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...
Counselors at Response suggest that at coeducational schools such as Harvard, more relationship problems lead to a higher incidence of date rape. Honnet, however, says that a coed school might "have an advantage in that men and women living together as friends have greater potential for understanding and communication...
Next year, at the urging of the College's four-member Coordinating Committee on Sexual Harassment, peer counselors will hold voluntary workshops during freshman week to increase awareness of date rape. In an independent effort, two Harvard juniors this year collected 1000 signatures urging that such workshops not only be held, but be mandatory for all incoming undergraduates...
...survey on sexual harassment revealed that 34 percent of undergraduate women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, loosely defined as anything from lewd jokes and suggestive comments to unwanted touching or rape. A subsequent survey, which used a stricter definition of harassment, revealed a much smaller percent...