The Backlash Begins
June, 1998
In March 1997 we covered the story of Adam Lack, the Brown University undergraduate who had the misfortune of having sex with Sara Klein. It seems that she, having gotten soused at a fraternity party, urged him on, first with kisses and then by taking off her clothes. He took that as a sign of sexual interest and obliged. Klein later charged that Lack sexually assaulted her because he yielded to her advances while she was drunk. Her complaint argued, in essence, that a responsible man would have...