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...Bureau of Study Counsel offers an eating concerns group for bulimic women and a workshop--titled "What Should I Do? A Workshop for Friends, Lovers and Roommates of People with Eating Disorders"--once each semester...
Last Tuesday I attended a date rape workshop at the first-year entryway where I am a prefect. The statistics given were staggering: One out of four college women have been raped, usually by someone they know. In one study, 30 percent of college men said they would commit rape if they thought they could get away with it. When the word "rape" was not used, 50 percent of the men surveyed said they would commit acts meeting the legal definition of rape...
...depressing as much of the discussion was, I found some solace in the behavior of the men at the workshop. When I was a first-year, the reaction of my male peers to the date rape presentation could be summed up as "I would never do that, so it's not my problem...
...them later memorably described all women as being either "pals, babes or bitches." He said this in front of me and my roommates and seemed surprised when we took offense. The first-year men at the workshop this week showed far greater sensitivity. After a story of date rape was read, one of them commented "It's the kind of thing that makes you ashamed...
...statistic "one in four" is a chilling one to hear as a woman. When I first heard it, I knew no victims (or "survivors," as the workshop called them) of date rape. Now, I could spend thie entire column recounting stories of rape or attempted rape...