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(01/30/15 6:13am)
This week the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) sponsored a series of Suicide Prevention Training sessions for staff and faculty at the University. The training sessions, in response to last semester’s unfortunate student suicides, are one of the first steps the University has taken this semester toward suicide prevention and awareness. These steps, however, pale in comparison to the steps that have been taken thus far to prevent sexual assault and promote student safety on Grounds. Although these are very different causes, the University needs to devote more time and effort to a cause that was responsible for taking the lives of three University students last semester.
(01/29/15 6:20am)
Virginia’s General Assembly is in the process of crafting legislation which will alter how incidents of sexual assault are handled on college campuses.
(01/28/15 7:15am)
The number of participants in 2015 formal recruitment for both the Inter-Sorority Council and Inter-Fraternity Council’s spring rush saw an increase from last year.
(01/28/15 7:15am)
The University is planning to release a sexual assault campus climate survey this April in collaboration with the Association of American Universities — a survey which will be distributed among 27 nationwide institutions of higher education.
(01/28/15 4:55am)
As the trial of two former Vanderbilt football players charged with rape is underway, a long-dormant discussion surrounding universities’ football recruitment has begun again.
(01/27/15 5:36am)
The issue of sexual assault is not just about one victim and one perpetrator. It is about communities and people that stand idly by while violence continues to occur. We are not one of those communities, and we are generating less and less inactive bystanders.
(01/27/15 5:34am)
As a female born in 1994, I am afforded many privileges women before me were not. I am able to attend the University, vote and see examples of women succeeding around every corner. My gender has not been a defining factor in my University experience and I have been supported by a community of peers, educators and mentors of both genders and all orientations.
(01/27/15 5:21am)
Many sorority national headquarters are putting strict measures in place to prevent member participation in this year’s Boys’ Bid Night activities. Several chapters have been required to schedule mandatory meetings or social events in lieu of Bid Night activities, in addition to a request from the National Panhellenic Conference last week requesting all sororities cancel organized Bid Night activities.
(01/26/15 7:12am)
For many students, the Rolling Stone saga began Wednesday, Nov. 19. The article, posted online that morning, prompted a series of protests and meetings, before being thrown under strict scrutiny after a host of discrepancies came to light in December. The narrative was capped in mid-January, when police said an investigation found no evidence that Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the center of the story of an alleged gang rape of then-first-year student Jackie, was involved in the incident.
(01/26/15 7:18am)
Law School Prof. Robert F. Turner and his son Thomas Turner, a third-year Batten School student, released an article last month in the Richmond Times Dispatch titled, “It’s time for a U.Va. apology.” In it, they argue Rolling Stone inappropriately handled its investigative report of University Greek Life and an alleged sexual assault described in the November article, “A Rape on Campus.”
(01/26/15 7:19am)
Last Friday, all 31 of the University’s fraternities signed a new Fraternal Organization Agreement addendum, agreeing to new safety measures for social events. But some students have called into question the stringency of the requirements, which mandate sober brothers at each drink station and at stairs to residential rooms, regulate the types of alcohol present and how it is served, and require guest lists for all social functions. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, James Madison University and Virginia Tech, among others, similar safety measures already exist.
(01/22/15 4:55am)
You’ve surely heard by now that Stephen Colbert is headed to CBS to replace David Letterman, leaving behind Comedy Central and his iconic alter ego, a breathtaking and irreverent parody of conservative personalities such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. As everyone who has followed his career knows, Colbert frequently jokes about “truthiness,” a term he coined which Wikipedia defines as “a quality characterizing a ‘truth’ that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively, ‘from the gut,’ or because it ‘feels right’ without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.”
(01/21/15 4:37am)
The Board of Visitors and University officials recently hired two law firms to serve as consultants and to conduct an internal investigation and review of its handling of sexual assault cases.
(01/16/15 6:34am)
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, proposed House Bill 1343 Dec. 1 which, if passed, would require university campus police or local law enforcement to report sexual assault cases to their local commonwealth attorneys within 48 hours of notice of the incident.
(01/15/15 8:26pm)
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) spearheaded the proposal for a bill to require that campus police report cases of sexual assault to their local commonwealth attorney within 48 hours.
(01/15/15 5:20am)
After a tumultuous semester, safety has been on everyone’s minds at the University. As we transition to the spring semester, it is imperative that we do not let the lessons and challenges of the previous one slip from our minds. Despite the disorienting adjustment to our new classes and our renewed extra-curricular obligations, we must continue to think critically.
(01/15/15 6:02am)
In an effort to improve current safety procedures, the University is requiring fraternities to sign the new Fraternal Organization Agreement addendum by Jan. 16 as part of an agreement lifting a suspension on Greek social activities first enacted in November. The addendum comes out of intense scrutiny of the University Greek system following a Nov. 19 Rolling Stone article, later retracted, alleging a gang rape at the University’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
(01/15/15 5:04am)
During Winter Break, 150 University students and faculty participated in a four-day Green Dot program which aims to decrease violence on school campuses and within communities. The program’s University incarnation placed particular emphasis on sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence.
(01/15/15 6:59am)
A Virginia House of Delegates bill filed Jan. 8 is moving to expand criminal DNA data banks in Virginia. If passed, the bill — submitted by Virginia House Minority Leader David Toscano, D-Charlottesville, after an effort by Albemarle County Sheriff Chip Harding — would legally require those convicted of any additional 99 Class 1 misdemeanors to submit a DNA sample to the state data bank.
(01/14/15 5:13am)
Gov. McAuliffe announced the establishment of a new Equal Opportunity Legislative Agenda Monday. The agenda aims to promote economic growth by making the workplace more comfortable for Virginians, especially women and homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals.
