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[Molly Dragiewicz <>]

I think it is just as likely to be DENIAL as ignorance of these dynamics 
that keeps colleges from appropriately preventing and responding to SA.

Some administrators choose to dismiss the research in favor of their 
personal theories about rape, which as in the rest of the population tend 
toward victim blaming and disbelief.


At 12:38 PM 10/6/2005, Catherine Bath wrote:
> Ben, Yes, we see it repeatedly and it is one of our missions to wake up the
> college administrators to the reality that the "nice young man" could be a
> repeat offender and they should expel him.  Dr. David Lisak's research about
> the undetected rapist underscores the fact that a small % (about 4 %) of
> such perpetrators have an average of four victims! It is their modus
> operandi. We consider the lack of knowledge about such perpetrators and the
> "slap on wrist" to be contributing to a silent epidemic of rape on our
> college campuses nationwide.  These perps know that the chance that their
> victims even report their rapes to authorities is less than one in 20.  And
> if they do get called in front of campus judicial the chances that they are
> let off the hook is high.
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> >    1. Campus judicial systems
> >        (Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband)
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> > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:03:25 -0400
> > From: "Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband"
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> > Last week, I performed my play for a student group at a Midwestern =
> > university.  The student who picked me up told me she had been raped =
> > during her first year, and had taken her rapist through the campus =
> > judicial system.  The judicial board gave the guy a slap on the wrist (a =
> > stay-away order) which wasn't even enforced (he sat near her in the =
> > dining hall, she reported it and nothing was done). =20
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> > The week before, at another Midwestern university, a woman reported a =
> > rape (after having attended one of my presentations!).  24 hours later, =
> > the perp was kicked out of his campus housing.
> >
> > The first campus apparently does this as a pattern - many other women =
> > have had similar experiences (often with the same guy, who has been =
> > repeatedly assaulting women while the college does nothing).  I've tried =
> > to hook this woman up with the local rape crisis center - maybe she'll =
> > have more luck with the non-campus judicial system.  But do other folks =
> > see this kind of thing - campus judicial systems totally letting =
> > perpetrators off the hook?  I know, our American judicial system does =
> > the same, but I wanted to hear if others have had this experience with =
> > campuses.
> >
> > Thanks!  - Ben
> >
> > Ben Atherton-Zeman, Acton MA USA
> > Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
> > Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," video clips now available at =
> > www.voicesofmen.org =20
> > Call 978-263-3254 for booking information.
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> > change...and change is scary."
> > - Marilyn Sewell, UU World, vol XlX no 4, page 18.
> > Men, be brave - see the reality of domestic abuse and become active this =
> > October, National DV Awareness Month!  ------------------------------
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Molly Dragiewicz
Visiting Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
Bucknell University

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