Word: womens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rally, says RUS Secretary Annabella C. Pitkin '90, was a strong way to quiet the community fears. Pitkin, who co-founded the Women's Alliance, an umbrella organization that addresses gender issues on campus, says today that the rally's purpose was three-fold: to demonstrate solidarity with the survivor; to give women an outlet for their fears; and to "reclaim" the Science Center...
...Lucy H. Deakins '92, a Radcliffe undergraduate who says she was particularly affected by the rape, remembers hearing the news and being "shocked" and "horrified." She says she thinks the rally played an important role in making women feel they could be safe in their community...
...much of the fear and anger generated by last year's rape did not translate to action, as Women's Alliance Co-Chair Ann E. Blais '91 notes. While the rape generated "a lot of motivational energy," it was more of a powerful emotional statement than a call to action, she says...
...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't be, in touch with that kind of subjectivity...
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...