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Take Back the Night (TBTN) does not exist to spout statistics or place blame, as Caldwell claims, but to support all victims of sexual violence. We do not argue that the issues of sexual assault are clean cut, but we know that blaming victims only adds to the stigma of rape. Most rapists are never punished because the victims feel shame and guilt in reporting them. Awareness of the social and personal impacts of sexual violence and unwavering support for the victims are necessary for effective prevention...
...writers are co-chairs of TBTN and a member of the executive board, respectively. This statement was endorsed by the remainder of the executive board and many of TBTN’s co-sponsoring organizations...
...main problem lay not with security measures but with deeper problems with male-dominated society. In October of 1981, SOS chair Elisabeth M. Einaudi ’83 and Peggy A. Mason ’82, chair of the Harvard “Take Back the Night” (TBTN) committee, wrote an op-ed in The Crimson calling for improved safety measures and criticizing the mentality that generated violence against women. The letter praised recent security improvements like the shuttle system and increase in the number of security guards, but it further suggested that the University provide floodlights, extend...
Today, Harvard’s campus boasts more security now than it did 25 years ago. Laura C. Mumm ’09, co-chair of TBTN, says that there is a “plethora” of resources for students today. “To improve safety around Harvard,” she writes in an e-mail, “I think the best thing would be to make sure students actually feel comfortable in using the resources available to them...
...Take Back the Night” (TBTN), the well-intentioned campaign against sexual violence, necessarily begs the question, who is the night being taken back from?In 1999, Ross G. Douthat ’02, now a reporter at the Atlantic Monthly, chronicled the campus event, which featured an invited speaker who accused conservatives of wanting “to lock up pregnant black women.” She then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged...