Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voluntary, and proctors must request them. This fall only 10 proctors asked for the workshops for their entryway, says Bronwen C. Evans '87. Two Response counselors tried to implement mandatory counseling, but, when University officials turned down the request, they began circulating a petition last week to require date rape workshops for incoming freshmen...
...preventing date rape in many cases means changing attitudes that are ingrained or difficult to pinpoint. "The attitude of the guys in my dorm really shocked me," says Response counselor Debbie B. Lanzberg '88. "I had never before heard guys, nice enough guys and pretty average here, talking about women in such a derogatory...
...implied, and sometimes stated, message of such attitudes is that "no" often means "yes." Andrea Parrot, professor of human service studies at Cornell and author of the leading manual on the subject, says that too many people are not aware that "any sexual intercourse without mutual desire is rape...
Counselors at Response suggest that at coed schools such as Harvard, more relationship problems lead to a higher incidence of date and acquaintance 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...
...Rape is not the only form of violation. There are other, more subtle forms of attack. Sexual harassment is a common occurrence on college campuses. Counselors give several examples: What about the teaching fellow who insisted on giving you extra help? He scheduled a review section, neglected to inform his other students, and as a result you were the only one who came. You told your roommate about it, no one else. Or the woman down the hall who was assaulted in front of her entryway by a couple of drunk guys? The proctor, disturbed by the noise, came outside...