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...week in Kirkland House showing that the majority of students believe the House should leave its entryway doors unlocked signals the regrettable naivete with which most Harvard students view the problem of campus security. Unfortunately, the dangers of urban life affect students as well as local residents, as the rape of two Leverett House students last month sadly demonstrates. The task of dealing with the problem requires students to accept maturely the responsibility that living together in a community implies, and to be willing to sacrifice some of the niceties of so-called college life to the necessity of self...
...PUMA's ambitions is to be expected. A report released by the Boston Police Department last year documented widespread corruption and dereliction of duty among the police patrolling the Combat Zone. Prostitutes live in a very delicate coexistence with the law: no prostitute has formally charged any policeman with rape or blackmail even though, according to the report, such arts occur. Weeks says, "The police down the Zone get away clear. They take you in the paddy wagon and say, "If you blow me, I'll let you go," Doyle replies to these accusations by saying he will gladly check...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
...male students' assumption that she is as free with her body as she is with her opinions. But we are less surprised than Mira when after a night spent dancing giddily in a bar, a friend has to whisk her away and lock her up to prevent a gang rape...
...rape destroyed Val. She placed little value on her daughter's chastity but a great deal on her safety, her integrity, her right to be a person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line...