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It took her months of processing before she could call it rape. Before it happened, her only exposure to the idea of rape came from movies and television. After it happened, she realized that it didn’t have to be as extreme as an episode of Law & Order for it to be sexual violence. “At the time, I didn’t know …
In the spring of 1994, Virginia Tech’s first women’s center opened in two rooms in Lane Hall. Funding from the Provost’s Office was sparse, but the founding group of Virginia Tech women — called the Coordinating Council on Women’s Concerns — managed to sustain and grow the new office for the next two decades. The Women’s Center commemorated its 20th …