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Last Thursday marked the launch of Harvard’s newest student publication, “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard.” The first issue to appear at Harvard contains various poems and brief narratives from anonymous authors that reveal chilling, first-hand accounts of sexual assault. Such a collection of stories insinuates that this kind of crime is much more prevalent than the average student would believe, which is exactly what the editors had in mind. “Sexual assault does happen at Harvard,” says Saturday Night editor Azeemah...
...Take Back the Night,” an 11-day series of speakers and film screenings intended to raise campus awareness of sexual violence, launched in Ticknor Lounge yesterday, and the program’s leaders said they hope to shed light on the concerns of a broader range of students than in previous years. This year, “Take Back the Night” will place a special emphasis on international issues like sexual slavery and will stress that sexual assault concerns both men and women, said co-chairs Astha Thapa ’08 and Laura...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...
...This Indian version of America's "culture wars" is at a much earlier stage than its U.S. equivalent. The upper middle class that Kakar says is finally becoming "free from the sexual conservatism of the past" is still quite small, especially in comparison with the hundreds of millions who remain culturally conservative, if markedly less strident than the Hindu hard-liners Indian newspapers dub "the moral brigade...
...October 2, 2006: Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania An adult male sexual predator enters a one-room Amish School and kills six female students and himself...