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There’s a phenomenon called the Media Alienation Effect — you show the exact same news clip to people who belong to different political parties, and all of them say the clip is biased against their political views.
Helping Advocate Rights Through Stories organized Empowerment Through Fashion this past week — a showcase in recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The event served to underscore fashion’s relationship with self expression and recovery from trauma.
University Law School Profs. Richard Bonnie, Rachel Harmon and Brandon Garrett were recently elected to the American Law Institute. The University now has 21 faculty members who are a part of the Institute. Harmon, Bonnie, and Garrett will continue to teach at the University while also working with the ALI.
Take Back The Night held a rally Thursday at Lambeth Field to discuss sexual violence before the group moved to the amphitheater for a vigil.
Various members of the University community spoke on issues pertaining to sexual assault.
Take Back the Night held a panel style discussion about Title IX legal requirements and the University's new sexual misconduct policy Tuesday as a part of their week long event combatting sexual misconduct. The panel, titled “A Discussion on Sexual Misconduct Policy and the Law,” was headed by 2014 College graduate Emily Renda, project coordinator in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Assoc. Dean of Students Nicole Eramo and Law Prof. Anne Coughlin.
Last Sunday, during Columbia University’s “Days on Campus” event for prospective students, the anti-sexual assault student group No Red Tape projected phrases like “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” on Columbia’s Low Library in central campus. According to The Columbia Daily Spectator, Graduate Hall Director Rainikka Corprew and public safety officers obstructed the projection of the phrases, telling activists to wait until prospective students left Columbia’s campus before projecting onto the library again.
The thirtieth anniversary of Black Alumni Weekend was held this Friday and Saturday and featured events ranging from discussions about the changing role of the African-American community at the University to a screening of a documentary on the history of slavery at the University.
Take Back the Night kicked off its first series of events Monday as part of a week long initiative on sexual assault. The first event, How to Support a Survivor Panel, consisted of a group of male and female members of the community speaking on their experiences with sexual assault.
This year’s programming was organized partially as a response to a combination of both the national and local outrage sparked in recent months by highly publicized incidents of police brutality as well as the issue of sexual assault on college campuses.
With discussion of whether University President Teresa Sullivan’s contract will be renewed and the plethora of issues that have received national attention this year, many at U.Va. have voiced disapproval of or support for Sullivan as our president. But this focus on Sullivan, while important, has overshadowed the importance and relevance of other administrators — administrators who directly impact issues like sexual assault, race relations and other problems facing our student body.
Batten Hour featured a talk about safer Grounds Wednesday which focused on allowing students to feel more comfortable around Grounds and the barriers female students and faculty face due to safety concerns.
Monday, the University’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi announced its decision to take legal action against Rolling Stone magazine. In a statement, the chapter stated it plans “to pursue all available legal action against the magazine.”
Donna Riley, an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, visited the University Monday to discuss gender-based violence in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Riley discussed and analyzed the engineering, academic and broader U.S. cultures which work together to deny gender-based violence.
The Columbia School of Journalism held a press conference Monday addressing its report released Sunday night analyzing Rolling Stone’s failed reporting and editing procedures for Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “A Rape on Campus” article. Two of the report’s authors, Steve Coll, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, and Sheila Coronel, dean of academic affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, led the event.
After witnessing the April Fools’ debacle at our paper, I’ve experienced mixed emotions. I sympathize with the black and Native American students who felt that the April Fools’ articles trivialized their experiences. But I also understand that The Cavalier Daily approached the issue with the good intention of highlighting important issues such as Alcoholic Beverage Control agent violence and the offensive nature of racist-themed parties. These articles were not malicious. They were simply bad pieces of satire that demonstrated a lack of awareness.
The University is one of 27 universities participating in a climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct organized by the Association of American Universities. Between all involved schools, over 800,000 students are invited to participate in the survey administered by independent research firm Westat.
The University’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity announced plans to take legal action against Rolling Stone magazine in a statement released Monday. The lawsuit comes shortly after the Sunday release of the Columbia Journalism School’s review of the article, which described an alleged gang rape said to have taken place in the fraternity house. The Columbia Journalism School’s report found failures at all levels of the editorial process, and Rolling Stone has since fully retracted the article.
For an officer inside of a State College police car, 2 a.m. Saturday is predictable.
Yesterday, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism released its report on the journalistic catastrophe that was Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” an article detailing an alleged — and subsequently discredited — account of a sexual assault at the University chapter of Phi Kappa Psi.