Word: tbtn
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Katie Koestner, national date rape prevention activist, wove descriptions of her own experience of being raped in her first year at William and Mary College throughout her speech to men and women assembled last night in Emerson Hall for Take Back The Night (TBTN) week...
...really important, although TBTN is primarily a women's issue, to remember that sexual assault can happen to both genders," Lee-Sean Huang '02 said. "It is great to see that there were so many guys here tonight...
However, if it continues to be included, a more appropriate way for RUS and TBTN to address this issue would be to allow Harvard Students for Choice and Harvard Right to Life equal time to coordinate events during the week. The atmosphere at the recent panel about abortion at the Institute of Politics was incredibly thoughtful and respectful. RUS has the resources and stature plan a similar discussion instead of assuming, as they currently do, that a Harvard woman must be a pro-abortion woman...
...website, the Radcliffe Union of Students "is the voice for all female undergraduates at Harvard" and "conducts panels, weekly discussion groups, and events such as Take Back the Night, to insure that the voices of all women at Harvard are heard." Unfortunately, including abortion activism as a component of TBTN does not ensure that the voices of all women at Harvard are heard. In fact, it serves to effectively silence and ignore those at Harvard who are anti-abortion or undecided about the issue. If RUS purports to speak for every female on campus, the group should not take official...
...abortion or anti-abortion; rather we are both struggling with the morality of abortion and we both are attempting to figure this tough issue out on an individual level. Out of respect for all women on campus, we would prefer that, in the future, abortion be excluded from the TBTN agenda and left as personal issue...