...wait did you go to one of the Five Colleges?? (Sorry it's off-topic, but I'm a Smithie!)
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Amherst 1990.
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High five! Smith 2002! (And now back to serious stuff, sorry)
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<----old lady. Hopefully Smith women were treated better by Amherst men than they were when I was there.
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I can honestly say I never heard anything about an Amherst guy specifically, though there were a few horrific attacks. But for me personally, I only went to parties on Smith campus and all the boys bussed in stayed on their best behavior in fear of vengeful lesbians
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LOL. The vengeful lesbians. I lived in Crossett my sophmore year, and had good friends live there my junior year. There was a late late party in the 8-person first floor room my junior year out of which there were multiple stories of tag team rape.
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I incited an assault once after I graduated by saying, in the presence of one of those responsible, that I was sure people close to the guy I was talking to (I mean, standing right next to you) had done that.
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Christ, I am so so sorry. I cannot imagine having th gumption to say that to his face, you are incredible for doing that. I hope he falls down a well.
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I was Amherst '92. I remember someone being arrested for sexual assault when I was there, and assume it's the same incident. Was the guy my year, do you know?
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Yes. IIRC he had raped a woman in your class, and harassed someone I was close friends with, by my senior year. The tag-team rapists would have been too. But IIRC the 93 class was worst of all.
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Thanks. Yes. I think I can picture him.
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Orientation in our freshman dorm at Harvard in 1985 included advice, if arrested by Cambridge police, to call the Harvard police.
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Points to what I think is mistake by the victim advocates. Historically they stressed victim should have choice of handling through univ. system or through police. I've always thought this was crazy. Univ judicial systems are set up for things like plagiarism, not violent crime
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The flip side is that college disciplinary systems can immediately expel the perpetrator (not that they do, but they *could*), versus a criminal proceeding which would drag on for months or even years, while the perpetrator is still there on campus in proximity to the victims.
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I don't have a good solution for that, but that's the reasoning, anyway.
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True, & I think intent is also to empower & give agency to victim who has had that taken away. Training I was given for crisis hotline response in college was assure them any choice (report, not report, police or university system) is ok which I understand.
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Especially when Kavanaugh’s mother was the county prosecutor
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Of if you're at a public university and you have a certain name like on one or more buildings, or if you're a scholarship athlete.
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I was UMass 94-99 and I remember hearing that story. Amherst continues to have the reputation of covering up assault, and UMass has an actual police force on campus, in addition to the Amherst police force.
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