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  Friday, September 19, 2003



  6 Students From Elite Japanese Universities Plead Guilty to
  Rape Charges

  By ALAN BRENDER
    
  
  On the first day of a sensational trial Wednesday in a Tokyo
  courtroom, six former members of an elite social club
  associated with one of Japan's top universities pleaded guilty
  to gang-raping two female students, but they denied they had
  planned the rapes. 
  
  The defendants, who were students at several prestigious
  universities, had been members of the Super Free Club, a
  social organization that used the Waseda University name
  despite having lost its charter from the institution last
  year. Since the men were arrested two months ago, people in
  Japan have been shocked to hear allegations that members of
  the club had been involved not only in the two gang rapes, but
  also in many others. 
  
  The police here have said that more than a dozen young women
  have reported being gang-raped by members of the club. Friday,
  a weekly magazine in Japan, has reported that the number of
  women allegedly raped by club members exceeds 100. 
  
  In testimony on Wednesday, three of the defendants pleaded
  guilty to raping a 20-year-old female student in May, another
  of them admitted raping a 19-year-old student in December
  2001, and two others said they had participated in both rapes.
  
  
  Shinichiro Wada, the club's charismatic 29-year-old leader and
  a former Waseda student, told the court that "the rapes did
  happen, and I feel deep remorse, but we did not plan them in
  advance." 
  
  Two other former students at Waseda, Junichiro Kobayashi, 22,
  and Tochiaki Numazaki, 22, admitted roles in the more recent
  rape. Sho Fujimura, 21, a former Gakushuin University student,
  and Daisuke Kobayashi, 21, a former Nihon University student,
  also pleaded guilty to that rape charge. 
  
  All five men were expelled from their universities after their
  arrests in July. 
  
  Mr. Wada, Junichiro Kobayashi, and Hideyuki Kishimoto, 28, a
  graduate of Keio University, pleaded guilty to the 2001 rape. 
  
  Prosecutors told the court that after Mr. Wada raped a drunken
  girl, he urged other club members to participate in rapes. The
  prosecutors quoted Mr. Wada as saying, "Gang rapes create
  solidarity among members." Those who refused to participate,
  the prosecutors said, could not be considered members of the
  exclusive club. 
  
  According to the indictment, the defendants invited female
  students to attend parties at which word games were played.
  The prosecutors contend that the club members rigged the games
  so that the women would lose and would be forced to drink
  strong vodka-based drinks. After the young women became
  intoxicated, the male students encouraged them to leave the
  party room and then raped them. 
  
  The club arranged many parties and used the Waseda name to
  draw students, especially female students, from other
  universities. Club members also sold tickets to the events,
  some of which attracted thousands of students. Mr. Wada is
  reported to have personally earned $100,000 a year from club
  activities. 
  
  The Super Free Club was initially registered at Waseda and had
  five branch offices nationwide, but many members were from
  universities other than Waseda. Last year, upon hearing
  complaints about the club's commercial activities, the
  university withdrew its charter. The club continued to operate
  using the Waseda University name anyway, according to Nobuhide
  Morohashi, a university spokesman. 
  
  "We find that the situation caused by members of this club
  lamentable, and we are taking many steps to ensure such
  activities will never occur again among our students," Mr.
  Morohashi said. "We will do everything in our power to
  reconstruct Waseda's reputation and to safeguard our
  students." 


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We just had Reanae McNeal perform at our annual Domestic Violence Conference. 
 She performed "My Soul's Got a Bruise on It."  It was one of the most 
powerful and moving performances that I've ever seen.  She also conducted a 
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on Counseling African American Women that was very well received by 
participants.  I highly recommend her.  She is also flexible and easy to work 
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Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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Here are a couple of programming ideas that we've been working =
with.  I am a firm believer in infiltrating other programs with the =
messages we want to send and camouflaging my programs  in order to =
get the less-enthusiastic candidates to attend.  =20

For example, for fraternity/sorority new-member programs we've been =
doing a discussion about why they chose to be in a single-sex =
organization, what they would want a little brother or sister to =
know before coming to visit the house (we do this in single-sex =
groups then come back to co-ed group), what responsibilities they =
have.  This inevitably leads to a discussion of sexual violence =
without defensiveness because THEY brought it up.

One of our first-year programs is "The Social Scene at Dartmouth" a =
panel of 6 juniors and seniors who are carefully chosen to deliver =
the information but from a first-person perspective.  Nothing =
preachy, just "when I first came here, I thought it was great how =
the senior guys were hitting on me, then I realized I was being =
targeted" or "when I first came here, I thought hooking up with =
women was the most important thing, now I see that it didn't make =
me happy".  The discussions have been amazing. =20

This past year we did a hugely-successful multi-media show called =
The Real World: Dartmouth.  Popular student acapella, humor and =
hip-hop groups on campus participated which guaranteed a crowd (we =
were beyond capacity in a 400-seat theatre).  Each one performed =
works dealing with gender and/or sex.  Two students acted as MC's, =
challenging the crowd to (re)consider the messages of the works.  =
Ten men and ten women did small monologues about gender: sexual =
assault; harassment; frustrations of gender stereotypes; dating; =
love; sex... Students have repeatedly told me the monologues were =
the best part even though it was not what they were coming for. =20

And one of the great joys of the past year was hosting Linda =
Duvoisin, filmmaker of "You Don't Know What I Got".  Her truly =
independent film profiles five very different women including two =
police officers, and Ani Difranco.  Sexual violence is only =
mentioned directly a couple of times but it is an inspiring vision =
of women telling their stories.  Linda met with a group of students =
who are interested in filmmaking and they raved about her.  She had =
real-life experience working on all sorts of documentaries and for =
many PBS and Discovery Channel projects.  She could answer all =
their questions on being in the business, could talk about how to =
tell a story, her inspirations, her difficulties.  Check out her =
website: www.whatigot.com.  She's awesome.

Abby Tassel
Coordinator, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program
Dartmouth College