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...absolute least, Harvard as an educational institution should teach students about the prevalence of violence against women. The administration should mandate a date rape workshop for all first-year students during Orientation Week. It is a disgrace that Take Back the Night, an event completely organized by students, represents the only comprehensive attempt to deal with these issues on campus...
Rape counselors and College officials agree that the first step to reducing the frequency of date rape is to educate students. When we maintain an "it doesn't happen here" mentality, we ensure that it will continue to happen here...
...study conducted through the University of California at Los Angeles found that 54 percent of teenage men thought forced sex was acceptable if a woman said "yes" and then changed her mind; 39 percent thought rape was acceptable if a man spent a lot of money on his date, and 36 percent thought that if a man got so excited he thought he could not stop, forced sex would be permissible...
Viggiani says that almost two-thirds of all first-year proctors asked the date rape peer counselors to speak in their dorms. This is an encouraging number, but it is not nearly high enough...
Every student should watch the date rape workshop and should consider whether they violate other people's boundaries and how they set their own. According to members of Response, a peer counseling group that handles issues of sexual violence, the main stumbling block to a mandatory date rape workshop for first-year students is the office of Henry C. Moses, dean of first-year students...