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Blais says she thinks that Harvard has had problems reaching a consensus on what needs to be done because there is not yet a common set of assumptions about what the true state of security is. She says she hopes continued campus research and continued meetings with the CCL can...
"If women feel unsafe, if women feel threatened, then something has to be done. We have a lot of the subjectivity--you're down at Mather, the shuttles have stopped running, you don't have money for a taxi, what do you do?" Blais asks. "The University isn't can...
Most often, that kind of subjectivity is what makes security a women's issue, according to some on campus. Fear of violence may be a universal undergraduate preoccupation, Zellweger says, but women's concerns about rape--about security in general--merit special attention.
"I think that fear of being raped is different than fear of being beaten up," Zellweger says. "You could look at rape as the systematic subjugation of women, to keep them in their place, keep them afraid, keep them running scared."
One manifestation of that is who uses the escort services and why, students say. Timothy P. McCormack '91, a member of the SafeStreets steering committee, says he believes more women use the escort service than men do, because women on campus have less of a feeling of "invincibility" than men...