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...comments--by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffery Wolcowitz--created a maelstrom of controversy. Posters around campus--including some saying "Attack Jewett"--accused the two of blaming women for the incidents; student groups from the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to The Crimson called for vast changes in how acquaintance rape cases are handled by the College...
Both the Radcliffe Union of Student's (RUS) Women's Center subcommittee and the newly formed Women's Center Resource Group are spear-heading the fight for a genuine women's center. These groups claim that the Lyman Common Room is not an adequate response to their past proposal for a women's center and should not be considered as such despite ambiguous statements made by Radcliffe President Linda Wilson...
...Lyman Common Room is a Radcliffe Center, not a women's center," RUS Co-President Annie Blais says. "It is not a women's center because it is not a force for feminist social change, is not run by a representative body of its constituents and has no budget...
...Blais '91, RUS co-president, said shewelcomed Jewett's response to the RUS letter as"serious and thoughtful, and very quick...
...RUS approach is preventive, encouragingwomen to educate themselves, while Response dealswith issues after the fact, giving students achance to talk about sensitivity issues likeacquaintance rape...