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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) earlier this month urged the College's Administrative Board to review its treatment of date rape cases after Board members explained that victims' inability to provide proof often makes these cases difficult to resolve...
According to Serena Volpp '92, co-president of RUS, experts for the task force will likely come from groups such as the Rape Crisis Center of Boston, the Witness Advocacy Program in the Boston District Attorney's Office, and the Cambridge Comission on the Status of Women. "Contacts have not been made yet," Volpp said...
Viggiani will co-chair the task force along with a student. RUS planned to elect a student co-chair at a special meeting late last night...
...credit, Jewett responded immediately to his critics. He contacted the two posterers and--setting aside their personal attacks on him--met with them to discuss the issue. He wrote a letter to RUS proposing a joint meeting with RUS leaders, the Faculty Council and the Administrative Board. He now plans a mass mailing to all undergraduates to explain his position...
...letter to RUS, Jewett expressed an unwillingness to alter fundamentally the current system for judging acquaintance rape cases. We are disappointed with this stance; we continue to believe a new administrative body could be far more effective. However, Jewett's evident sincerity in addressing this issue gives us hope that some solution--perhaps a radical reform of the Administrative Board's handling of acquaintance rape cases--could be worked...