Koestner said that men can be most effective in preventing other men from committing rape.
"You men can make changes that I cannot," she said. "Ultimately, men have to challenge other men."
Members of the audience had mixed reactions to her focus on challenging men to oppose rape.
"It's very important that she addressed many of her comments to men," said Heather A. Brown, a student at Harvard Divinity School. "She is absolutely right that we need men to make a difference."
Others said her focus on men took power out of the hands of women.
"I thought her view of men as the only agents of change undermined her point and just wasn't true," Miranda S. Richmond '03 said.
Although Elizabeth F.M. Janiak '03 said she admired Koestner for speaking out about date rape, she also objected to her focus on men.
"I was deeply offended," she said. "I wondered if all the women in the audience should give up the fight."
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