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1983

The University of Maine

Sexual violence

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No Easy Answers, Liz Cash Dec 1983

No Easy Answers, Liz Cash

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Searching for a method to effectively punish sex crime offenders, at least three judges have recently ordered convicted rapists and child molesters to take a drug that causes chemical castration in lieu of regular prison sentences.


Rapes Seldom Reported, Suzanna Mitchell, Ron Gabriel Oct 1983

Rapes Seldom Reported, Suzanna Mitchell, Ron Gabriel

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Statistics from the Rape Crisis Center in Bangor suggest that for every rape reported at UMO each year, 10 others have probably occurred, said UMO's assistant director of police services William Prosser. The Rape Crisis Center bases unreported rape figures "on calls [it] gets for assistance compared to the number of police reports generated due to rape," Prosser said.


Name Disclosure Destroys Reputation, Lindsey Durnbaugh Oct 1983

Name Disclosure Destroys Reputation, Lindsey Durnbaugh

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Last year we voted to pay a communications fee to support WMEB and the Maine Campus. I assume, perhaps mistakenly, that this is part of the reason there are more articles, more comics, and more national news items in the Maine Campus than there were last year. There is one thing, however, which far outweighs any of the services the Maine Campus may provide. This is the fact that the Campus effectively destroyed the reputation of one of the students here, a friend of everyone who knows him.


Names Aren't Real News, Virginia Wallace-Whitaker Oct 1983

Names Aren't Real News, Virginia Wallace-Whitaker

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

I would like to comment on the recent coverage of reported rape at UMO…"Names make the news" is an old, old concept—almost as old as "she must have been asking for it."


Protect From 'Guilt By Accusation', Don Taylor Oct 1983

Protect From 'Guilt By Accusation', Don Taylor

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In regard to your article pertaining to the Penobscot Superior Court dropping charges against [a University of Maine student]. I feel your paper has done a grave injustice…by printing the comments of Assistant Director of the Department of Police and Safety William Prosser.


Superior Court Dismisses Rape Case, Nancy Kaplan Oct 1983

Superior Court Dismisses Rape Case, Nancy Kaplan

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Penobscot County Superior Court Monday dismissed a charge of rape against a UMO student when a grand jury established there is insufficient cause to prosecute the case.


Sympathize For Both, Paul Pickering Sep 1983

Sympathize For Both, Paul Pickering

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Rape is an ugly concept. Yet day after day I see articles in the Maine Campus of which the topic is none other than rape. I don't mean to discount the importance of addressing such an issue, but why can't we let the two involved in that unfortunate episode deal with the consequences by themselves?


Accused By Origin, Barney Berube Sep 1983

Accused By Origin, Barney Berube

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The subject of rape for the lead story in the Maine Campus makes for titillating talk and gossip. That seems universal. Why shouldn't the Maine Campus cash in on this human frailty? Other papers indulge in this kind of reportage gratuitously. That's only one of the curiously sad aspects of the Maine Campus indulgences.


Gannett Hall Resident Charged With Rape, Mike Harman Sep 1983

Gannett Hall Resident Charged With Rape, Mike Harman

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A 20-year-old Gannett Hall resident was arrested in his room Tuesday on a charge of Class A rape by UMO police.