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During his tenure as dean, Jewett oversaw and influenced Harvard policy on such contentious issues as the date rape, housing choice, ROTC and alcohol consumption...
Some say that the point of the "Take Back the Night" rally is to make men more "aware" of or "sensitive" to the desires of women, so as to discourage them from committing as foul a violation as date rape. I daresay, though, that the kind of man who would rape a woman is not the sort to attend a "Take Back the Night" rally,. If such a miscreant were in the audience, the presentations are as likely to encourage his flagitious schemes as to dissuade him from them. To a rapist, the women's stories nothing but case studies...
Roach's wrist pain started nearly two yearsago, during a summer job in date entry when shewas spending 20 hours per week at the computerkeyboard. She says that she and a co-worker, whowas diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, weren'tinstructed on the proper way to type in order toavoid wrist pain...
...busy," she replied. An orphan, she was not only working but attending classes as well. The second time Nixon drove her home, he again asked for a date, again was shrugged off. The third time it happened, Nixon said, "Someday I'm going to marry you." It took two years of courtship before she agreed in 1940; she converted to the Quaker faith and used her own savings to buy the wedding ring...
...date of liberation approached over the past few weeks, the curse of violence grew across the land. It looked as if hundreds of thousands of black South Africans would be too frightened to exercise their hard-won right to vote -- and the country might dissolve into full-scale rebellion, shattering hopes of building a just nation. More than 20,000 citizens have died in the past 10 years, most of them in the rivalry between Inkatha and Mandela's African National Congress...