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...outdoors is not the only place to which Thursday's marchers will call attention. Most rapes of college age women occur indoors, by men they know. The organizers of this year's march are placing particular emphasis on the frequency of "date" or acquaintance rape, the most common form of rape at Harvard...
Accidents occur in the best of regulated families and notably also in rather evidently unregulated ones such as Harvard's. Thus the proposed award for distinguished public service to Mr. Edwin Meese III. But I do not write to join in the present storm of criticism, tempting as that may be. The problem now, in a popular Washington phrase of our day, is damage control. That cannot be achieved by escape, as was so brilliantly accomplished in the matter of a degree for President Ronald Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording...
Consequently, Ohio State runs a series of programs focusing on beliefs about rape. Stanford requires incoming freshmen to hear a seminar outlining usual circumstances of date rape. Auburn financed a videotape "It Still Hurts" which reenacts a campus party where a date rape might occur. Swarthmore ran a large workshop on rape in the fall of 1984 resulting in a student-produced videotape. And Cornell runs encounter groups in which students discuss date pressures...
Many colleges began ambitious programs about date rape only after serious instances became public. Strong student reaction pressured the adminstrations to do something. Harvard does not have to wait for such an event to occur...
Responding, chairman Offutt says the student government may need to take out liability insurance for the Raft Race because of the injuries that could occur if participants grew too rowdy. What began as the Adams House Ratt Race was changed to the Harvard Adams House Ratt Race when the council took over and was changed to the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race because the exclusion of Radcliffe offended Lakhdhir, who thought Radcliffe should be an integral part of the race. Council members revelled in the pronunciation of HRAH as "hurrah" in referring to the annual rite of spring along...