Word: victimization
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...Katie: Right after it happened I didn’t know what to do. I was trying to weigh out the good and the bad. I considered the fact that I didn’t know that many people at school yet, and the advantage of being the first victim in the country to use my name in the case of a date rape. I didn’t know what bad things would happen—how could anyone disagree with me? I didn’t realize how the media could portray you badly. I was usually picketing...
...that charges of reverse discrimination seem to have so much instant credibility? The Crimson staff falls victim to the mentality that anything that appears to give women an extra advantage must be sexist. However, as the staff admits, there is a dramatic imbalance between prizes open to men and women. The amount of inequality embodied in the Fay Prize simply doesn't measure up to the multitude of male-only prizes...
Columbia has yet to win an Ivy game, and Harvard was not about to become the Lions' first victim even though the game was played on a neutral site. Columbia had fewer shots than Harvard had goals, and Guyer recorded seven easy saves between the Crimson pipes...
...Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 comedic thriller North by Northwest, Cary Grant is pursued across the country after the becoming victim of mistaken identity. Yesterday afternoon, after a disastrous weekend at Yale, a Harvard baseball team in search of its offensive identity tried to avoid going South by Northeastern...
...fact that it is not the first area restaurant to be the target of reckless discrimination accusations. Several years ago the African-American community orchestrated a boycott of Grendel's Den after a waiter allegedly mistreated a black patron. The reality was that the patron was the victim of poor service, not racism, but this didn't discourage Harvard's ethnic organizations from rallying the troops and trying to put the place out of business...