Word: raping
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...Central Square rape comes at a time of heightened tensions around the state. A string of sexual assaults and attempted assaults at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and nearby colleges in the western half of the state has raised fears among many college students...
...heart of South African author J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (Viking; 220 pages; $23.95) lie two rapes--or rather, two scenes of violence, domination and utter disregard for humanity. And although rape is not the true subject of this book, with these parallel violations Coetzee has devised a subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland...
Soon Lurie has begun his own tragic fall, becoming obsessed with a student and forcing himself on her. Is it rape? He quickly decides not, but the young woman reports him to the university, and Lurie, fired and discredited, closes up his house and goes to visit his daughter Lucy, who lives on a farm in the Eastern Cape...
UMass spokesperson Barbara A. Pitoniak defended the university's decision to delay any special response until after the second reported rape...
...probably have one of the strongest campus-based rape crisis programs in the country," Wallace said...