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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: So How Do We Stop It
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 16:26:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 16:26:57 1984
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At Santa Clara University (admittedly smaller than a University) there is a
walkalong service, where men (and women, but in pairs!) are sent to simply walk
along with female students from about 6:00 til midnight.  People volunteer for
three hours one night a week to be available.  

As of yet, there has been no rape.  Nor were there any before this started; it
is a preventative measure.  Additionally, Public Safety publishes weekly campus
crime statistics in the school paper. (there have been a couple of
fondlings--descriptions of the attackers were published).   I suspect that San
Jose State has some sort of program, since there was a big (and justified)
commotion a couple of years back over a rapist praying on that area.


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As for rape as violent crime:

An officer from San Jose police department visited my English/Religion class
(Search for Meaning in Literature) in conjunction with the novel "The Painted
Bird" in high school.  He was from the violent crimes section.  he revealed the
following about rape:  (some of this is kinda blunt, some may be offended.

1:	it is a crime of violence, not sex.
2:	the rapist is frequently impotent.  Rape laws have been ammended to
	reflect this.  The legal definition of rape (is this local or state?)
	has been changed to "partial penile penetration."  Climax is irrelevant
	to the issue.
2a:	Pregnancy from rape is almost (but not completely) a non-issue due to
	2:.  Ejaculation is rare.  

If someone wants to contact a police department of a major city, I'm sure more
info is available.

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   rick                                     (Rick Hawkins @ Olivetti ATC)
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