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As I write, news is just breaking that New York City diagnosed its first (and hopefully only) case of Ebola. It’s a scary thought: in one of America’s most densely populated metropolitan centers, someone on the verge of becoming infectious roamed the city just last night.
This October marks the 27th annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an annual tradition organized by the Domestic Violence Awareness Project. The University Women’s Center is spearheading the University's involvement in the campaign, launching a series of events this week to raise awareness.
One Less and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team have teamed up to promote bystander intervention and practicing safety this Halloween weekend.
Charlottesville-based group The Women’s Initiative received a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation last week. The nonprofit aims to provide free assistance and counseling as well as education to women who are victims of abuse or suffering from mental health issues.
California recently enacted a “Yes Means Yes” law, creating an affirmative consent standard at state-funded colleges and universities. With this standard, sexual partners must verbally give their consent to sexual activity; anything less is sexual assault. While this policy may offer better boundaries for what qualifies as sexual assault — and those boundaries can at times be unclear — it does so at significant costs.
In Thomas Jefferson’s founding of the University, he stressed the importance of students being involved in public affairs and public service. He knew that what happened beyond the classroom would have a significant impact on the world we live in today.
Student Council President Jalen Ross and Sara Surface, External Chair of the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, traveled to the White House last week to discuss sexual assault prevention strategies with other college students.
The Medical Examiner’s Office in Richmond positively identified the remains found last Saturday as belonging to second-year College student Hannah Graham. A search team from the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office found the remains last Saturday on an abandoned property off Old Lynchburg Road in an area near Walnut Creek Park, about 11 miles southwest of the University.
The bystander awareness campaign Hoos Got Your Back held Pledge Day Thursday to promote its message of bystander intervention. More than 300 students signed a pledge committing themselves to combat sexual violence on Grounds as part of the event.
The U.S. Department of Education published the final rules for executing changes to the Clery Act Monday. These changes have been discussed by the department since June, and now that they have been finalized, will go into effect July 2015, though universities will be encouraged to make a “good faith effort” to follow the rules even before that date.
A grand jury in Fairfax County indicted Jesse Matthew on three felony charges Monday in connection with a 2005 sexual assault case. Matthew is charged with attempted murder, abduction and forcible sexual penetration with an object, Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Ray Morrogh said.
English is my dad’s second language, so throughout Fall Break he would see reports on ESPN about Jameis Winston, but he didn’t know what they were about. He asked me what Winston had done this time and wondered whether he was going to be suspended. I wondered the same thing, but of all the “Developing Stories” and red-highlighted text on Sportscenter, nothing mentioned a suspension of the Florida State quarterback. The school is investigating an alleged sexual assault in 2012 and more recent news that Winston had signed autographs for money.
The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday the publication of final changes made to the Clery Act by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The new changes include requiring institutions to report incidents of stalking and incorporate a statement of policy about programs aimed at curbing dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in its annual security report.
The Governor’s Task Force on Combating Campus Sexual Violence met for the first time Thursday in Richmond to discuss ways to prevent and respond to sexual violence on college campuses.
A former student from Virginia Wesleyan College is filing a lawsuit against the school for allowing her sexual assailant to transfer to another university without having an expulsion on his record after he was found guilty by a Title IX hearing administered by the school.
Find Your Voice, a new arts organization on Grounds, is aiming to encapsulate the student experience in performance — putting on monthly showcases which highlight students' real-life stories to promote awareness about a prevalent issue around Grounds.
Jacqueline Akunda, on behalf of the African Studies Initiative at the University, wrote one piece that caught my eye in the past week about an email sent to the University community from the Medical Center via the Office of the President in regard to a patient at the Medical Center who had tested negative for Ebola. Akunda raises several topics that I would like to see explored more in the pages of The Cavalier Daily: homogenization of different parts of the world, othering of those different from us and the domination of the Western viewpoint in discussions. Commentary on recent news items would be a great thing for the editors of The Cavalier Daily to seek out. In this particular case, Akunda’s concerns are that the email was carelessly worded and demonstrated that the University administration is disengaged and unaware. Akunda may well be correct that the University administration is all of those things about issues having to do with Africa. This email, though, had at least one other significant consideration involved that trumped the rest: patient privacy and confidentiality. When releasing information to the public about an individual patient there must be a balance between informing the public and protecting the patient’s right to privacy and to have their medical information kept confidential. The email gave the least amount of information necessary to inform the public in response to public queries. More specific information would have increased the likelihood that the person in question could be identified. The irony that this construction of privacy is a Western one is not lost on me.
In light of the recent disappearance of second-year College student Hannah Graham and several sexual assaults on and around Grounds, Student Council is promoting six mobile apps for student safety: Circle of 6, Kitestring, Tag - You're It, Hollaback, One Love My Plan, and First Aid by Red Cross.
The University Police Department released its Annual Security Report Monday. The release shows there were no reports of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, robbery or arson on or around Grounds in the 2011-13 reporting period.
Over the years, the United States and many other countries have developed certain social traditions for dating. In old-fashioned but still very prominent traditions, men held doors, made the first call, drove the woman and paid for dinner. However, women do not play the same naïve, helpless role in society now that they did in the past. A lot of these actions are now seen as “anti-feminist,” as women do not want to be perceived as passive and dependent, but strong, robust people with the same capabilities are men. In short, women today are finally beginning to be recognized as independent members of the workforce who are very capable of doing each of these things themselves. From 1960 to 2011 in the United States, the proportion of households in which the mother earned all or most of the income roughly quadrupled , changing from 10 to 40 percent of all households. Despite that, men are still expected to pay for all dates as they were in earlier years. This begs the question: is it considered anti-feminist for men to pay for dates?