Sexual Rules
THE NEWLY UPDATED GREEN PAGES, Dartmouth's student information handbook, now spells out more precisely than ever what's acceptable social behavior and what's not, as the following excerpts show: "Sexual abuse includes, but is not limited to:
"conduct of a sexual nature which reasonably would be expected to have the effect of threatening or intimidating the person at whom such conduct is directed;
"intentional physical contact with anintimate part of the body of another person without that person's consent;
"sexual intercourse when such contact is achieved through physical force,coercion, or threat, or in situations inwhich the victim is unable to give consentbecause of physical or mental incapacitation by reason of drug or alcohol conSumption, sleep, or unconsciousness."
"Some examples of sexual abuse are;"A man misinterprets signals froma woman who he thinks has been flirting with him and forces her to have sexwith him.
"During the course of an evening, a couple is initially comfortable with sexual contact, but the woman changes her mind, and the man continues to force the woman to have sex.
"A student takes sexual advantage ofanother who is incapable, for one reasonor another, of asserting unwillingness.
"A man forces an unwilling woman tohave sex because the couple has had aprevious sexual relationship.
"A woman says 'no' quietly or timidly, yet the man continues to proceed with sexual advances.
"Any inappropriate or non-consensual contact such as pinching a person'sbuttocks."
