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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Shannon E. Cleary ’12, a volunteer at OSAPR and chair of this year’s Take Back the Night activities, said that, in addition to addressing painful memories of sexual assault, creating a space for dialogue about these difficult issues can serve to help people understand the seriousness of sexual violence and ultimately inspire them to prevent it in the future...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vigil Empowers Sexual Assault Victims | 4/30/2010 | See Source »

...understand you see the transition from the comfort of home to school as a scary time for children. How do you address this in your books...

Author: By KRISTIN L. CRONON, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 5 Questions with Eric Carle | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...throwing bricks at it. What noisy senators do to the State of the Union is comparable to a diaper commercial right after a murder on your favorite TV show: a grating, sobering reminder that you are only watching a performance and not truly experiencing it. Because we only understand laissez faire as it applies to economics, viewers cannot lose themselves in the act. Never mind what the performers want to convey; nothing speaks for itself...

Author: By Diana McKeage | Title: Against Interpretation | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

Northern Ireland belongs to the people of all its communities and its destiny is theirs to decide. However kind your intentions, if you were born in Riverside, Calif., or Milton, Mass., you do not understand the intricacies of our situation. In truth, as the product of a mixed-faith family with victims on both sides, my own understanding is conflicted. The Irish, northern and southern, are proud of our diaspora: We value our connectivity and we like to see you visiting, but we don’t believe for a moment you know a hill of beans about the truth...

Author: By Felix L.J. Cook | Title: LETTER: Notes from Northern Ireland: Mind Your Own Business | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

Elsewhere, Williams recollects his relationship with an old mentor. “I suppose I understand now what drove him: all artists know times when the gates close, / or when everything you continue is despoiled by haste,” he writes. As Williams revisits his earlier memories, he eloquently shows the thought process behind his revisions of his understanding of his own life. Though as a young man the actions of his mentor seemed unfathomable, from this end of his career, Williams is able to understand the older writer’s paralyzing lack of confidence...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Poet Williams Channels Voices from the Canon | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

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