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["S. Daniel Carter" <>]

Mr. Rojo today responded with a letter to the editor "to clarify statements"
that he made in the earlier article. The letter is online at...

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090604/A_OPINION02/906
040302/-1/A_OPINION

Clarified or not this raises the very important point that not only colleges
and universities but our society as a whole often looks at "acquaintance
rape" as something less serious than it is. Research, and our experience,
has shown that the majority of these rapists are just as predatory if not
more so than their "stranger" rapist counterparts.

The attitude that they aren't a threat to anybody else is simply wrong, as
is the thought that continuing to subject their victims to their presence
isn't a problem.

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S. Daniel Carter
Director of Public Policy
Security On Campus, Inc.
http://www.securityoncampus.org/
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on 6/4/09 10:50 AM, John Foubert at 

 wrote:

> Colleagues,
> 
> Published reports state that a woman who was gang raped at the
> University of the Pacific is being revictimized by their
> administration.  In one case, University Spokesperson Richard Rojo is
> quoted as saying that "date rape" is not "outright rape" because it
> doesn't involve a random attack by someone jumping out of the bushes.
> 
> I hope that you will read the attached article.  I also hope that we
> can all find the way to respond with individual and/or collective
> social activism to send the message to Mr. Rojo and the University of
> the Pacific that these statements will not be tolerated.
> 
> John Foubert
> 
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