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...that Harvard is immune to rape and sexual assault. This "it could never happen to me" attitude is apparent in Harvard's abysmally sub-par rape prevention and rape survivor services. No women's center. No mandatory orientation for first-year or upper-class students on sexual assault. No victim's advocacy program. No guarantee of seeing a trained rape counselor or psychologist regularly after experiencing rape. No rape prevention/counseling center. No full-time employee of the College whose job is to raise awareness and decrease occurrence of rape. No professional speaker or workshop during first-year orientation week...
...make a choice. We can choose to question the validity of the statistics. We can pat ourselves on the back for having fewer rapes that some other schools. We can ignore the fact that each of us probably knows at least two or three students who have been the victim of sexual assault in the last year...
Ferrer shared her own experiences as a victim of domestic abuse in her first marriage and stressed the importance of being aware of signs of abuse in a relationship...
Hyde was on such a lucky streak. So this is where we tell you how disillusioned she was by the moviemaking process. It's true that Reuben, the black one-eyed Vietnam vet in the book, became the white burn victim Eugene in the movie (first choice Denzel Washington was busy); that scriptwriter Leslie Dixon (Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair) fiddled with characters; that Leder moved the setting from Atascadero, Calif., to Las Vegas. ("I thought the land of lost hopes and lost dreams was the place for this movie," she says.) But Hyde shrugs off the changes...
...course, a victim of the Joan Crawford syndrome: messed up, but as curable, psychologically speaking, as the scarred stars of ancient weepies always were. Like them, he just needs to be loved. And Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt) is the girl to do it. She, naturally, has her own problems. She's a single mom, a waitress working extra shifts at a topless bar while she struggles with alcoholism; she hides her bottle in a chandelier, just as Ray Milland did in The Lost Weekend. But there's good stuff...