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Law firm O’Melveny & Myers will serve as the new independent counsel to the Board of Visitors on issues of sexual violence at the University, the office of Attorney General Mark Herring informed University Rector George Martin in a letter Tuesday morning.
The question comes up over and over again: why do we — at a University where Honor is the bastion of the institution — expel people for lying, cheating and stealing, but not for rape?
Emanuel Brown, a contracted University employee, died in a men’s restroom in the basement of New Cabell Hall two weeks ago. If you’re like me, you probably missed this event — and there have been only two short mentions in this newspaper since. We certainly do not need the burden of another tragedy at this point in the semester, but Mr. Brown’s death — one quite literally at the center of our University — deserves more attention. In light of recent events, we confront the question: who is included in our University community, and why hasn’t Mr. Brown’s death been given more attention?
Student organizations One Less and One in Four hosted a round-table discussion in Newcomb Hall Monday evening, aiming to foster a dialogue about how students can participate in combatting sexual assault on Grounds.
Amid a sea of protests, University faculty have been active participants in the dialogue permeating Grounds which critically analyzes the University's culture and policies surrounding sexual assault. In addition to organizing a rally Saturday night on Beta Bridge, faculty from a swath of departments have issued statements and held discussions to help promote constructive change on Grounds, after a Rolling Stone article published last week thrust the University community into the national spotlight over the administration's handling of sexual assault cases.
Student Council launched a website Friday in conjunction with advocacy groups One Less and One in Four titled “Rolling Stone Must Unite Us, Not Divide Us.”
The University's policy on sexual misconduct should require any University employee to report any allegation of rape (or other form of sexual assault) to the police. Failure to do so should be grounds for immediate dismissal of the employee. There are multiple reasons for this.
I have lived my life nurtured by a variety of incredibly tight-knit communities.
The Sexual Assault Resource Agency, a Charlottesville-based nonprofit which offers support to survivors of sexual assault, held its sixth annual Annette DeGregoria Grimm Award Celebration last Friday at the Darden School.
The Sexual Assault Resource Agency, a Charlottesville based nonprofit, offers support and counseling to survivors of sexual assault.
To President Teresa Sullivan:
Several events will be taking place in upcoming weeks explaining what exactly rape culture is, and we should all strive to attend. In the interim, this is a literary update.
Student leaders held a press conference Monday morning to address local and national media about advocacy efforts on Grounds regarding sexual assault prevention.
The release of the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" Wednesday morning ignited emotionally-charged responses from across Grounds, as the University exploded with statements, protests and even crime in quick succession. To contextualize the events of the past week, The Cavalier Daily has compiled a timeline of events below. Please check back for continued coverage.
Responses to Rolling Stone’s article have been eager to lay blame — on the Greek system, on the University, on President Sullivan, on Dean Eramo…somewhere. The responses seem to be dividing into two poles — vilifying the University or defending it; vilifying the Greek system or defending it. An entire bureaucracy becomes a mass of either good or evil; a point person at the top of the hierarchy becomes culpable for a problem that is more widely rooted in culture. Honing in on these targets ignores the nuances we need to pay attention to in order to address this issue.
In the Facebook event for “What Can We Do?: Advocating Against Sexual Assault and Standing with Survivors,” anti-sexual violence organization One Less describes what their roundtable discussion is not: “Rather than being an forum for criticism and frustration, we hope that this event can empower students to make a difference by helping those most impacted by this very sensitive issue.” The University’s institutional organizations have provided no forum for criticism and frustration. Criticism and frustration have become demonized, twin nefarious specters that threaten our apparently delicate community.
One thing is certain at the University of Virginia: the more things change, the more they stay the same. In the aftermath of the Rolling Stone Magazine article detailing the pervasiveness of sexual assault at the University, administrators have issued communications claiming “contradictions between the U.Va. portrayed in the article and the U.Va. that we know.”
Over thirty years ago, when I was a new student at the University, I went out to lunch with a young man I’d dated a few times, with the intention of breaking things off. (This was back in the days when even a short and unserious relationship required a formal exit interview.) He was a very nice guy, and popular — he belonged to a big fraternity on campus — and although he seemed disappointed, he wasn’t in any way crushed. But at the end of the lunch, he did something I never forgot. He reached across the table, grabbed my hand and said I had to promise him something: that I would never, under any circumstances go upstairs alone at a fraternity house. Yes of course, I said, and tried to change the subject — I was young! I knew everything. “No,” he said sharply. I needed to listen to him. This was important.
University President Teresa Sullivan and the Honor Committee met Sunday to discuss the implications of the recent Rolling Stone article on the University’s system of student self-governance, and to address potential future attacks on such a system.
Numerous parties mentioned in the Nov. 19 Rolling Stone article, which graphically detailed the gang rape of a then-first year student at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in Sept. 2012, have faced unspecified threats in recent days.