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(09/18/14 4:35am)
The term “student activism” brings to mind the turbulence and chaos of the 1960s. I think of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and its heroics in organizing and participating in the marches and sit-ins of the Civil Rights movement. I think too of the more than 4.5 million students who went on strike in the aftermath of the 1970 Kent State University shootings. It’s hard to forget that the 1960s student activism movement was tinged with connotations of rampant drug use and sexual upheaval, but that is not to take away from the obvious successes of this era’s student activism.
(09/18/14 4:27am)
The University relies on its Community of Trust — a “benefit” at the University that binds its students not to lie, cheat or steal — to protect one another when we perceive something wrong. We are obligated by this trust and honor regardless of our geographic location. But its locus is on our Grounds and the immediately surrounding areas. And we have violated the Community of Trust.
(09/17/14 4:03am)
Student Council met Tuesday to hear from leaders of the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition and from Dean of Students Allen Groves.
(09/16/14 4:51am)
A New York Times investigation into the experiences of sexual assault survivors at Florida State University revealed that many student survivors who report their assaults to the police end up being dismissed as “uncooperative.” One example cited in the Times article involved a woman who reported her rape to the Tallahassee police. When she subsequently said she was unsure whether she wanted to prosecute the perpetrator, an officer wrote she was “unwilling to cooperate” and closed the case.
(09/16/14 5:17am)
Following the White House’s Not Alone initiative, designed to prevent sexual assault at universities across the country, the University plans to implement a new three-step prevention process.
(09/15/14 4:48am)
The Board of Visitors’ Student Affairs and Athletics Committee met Friday to discuss the University’s strategies for the prevention of sexual violence at the University.
(09/15/14 4:34am)
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring visited the University Friday to discuss the role of the Attorney General’s office with regard to same-sex marriage and campus safety across the commonwealth.
(09/15/14 4:17am)
Online comments are frustrating. One of the better rules of the internet is “don’t read the comments.” Most often, it seems, comments are either useless or tangential to the topic of the main piece. Sometimes, comments are outright hostile, purposefully racist and/or sexist or simply mean with no redeeming information or opinion offered. In those cases, having a comment section at all seems like an awful idea. The promise of comments, though, is why they continue to exist. At their best, comments sections in news publications offer a forum for interaction and conversation informed by a shared knowledge of the topic of the article or op-ed being commented upon. Losing the opportunity for good interaction would be unfortunate. And so, ultimately, comments sections will continue to exist. What we should do away with are anonymous comments.
(09/12/14 4:03am)
On Monday the NCAA announced it would lift Pennsylvania State University’s sanctions two years sooner than expected. Penn State is now permitted to play in Bowl games, and all of their football scholarships have been restored. Former Senator George J. Mitchell, who was hired to supervise Penn State in the aftermath of the Sandusky scandal, recommended the NCAA lift the sanctions because the university had made progress, and the football players did not deserve to be punished for the mistakes of others.
(09/11/14 1:13am)
Since rolling out a new mandatory reporting policy on sexual assault this August, the role of various University employees, including student employees, remains ambiguous.
(09/08/14 3:55pm)
There are several personal narratives I could use to preface a column which attempts to explain my feelings about the rampant presence of sexual objectification on Grounds.
(09/08/14 3:09am)
A Swiss university is walking a shaky line of legality by advertising an assistant professor position only to women. According to Inside Higher Ed, the dean of the school said this “aggressive” approach is necessary because women currently comprise only 11 percent of the faculty.
(09/08/14 3:04am)
Student self-governance is unique to our University and one of its most compelling features, but, as I have argued before, there are situations that merit its limitation. One such situation is the adjudication of sexual misconduct cases, overseen by the University’s Sexual Misconduct Board (SMB).
(09/05/14 5:03am)
Approximately 20 faculty members attended Survivor Support Network training Wednesday, which was conducted by Claire Kaplan and Charlotte Chapman of the Women’s Center. The training session lasted about three hours, and included definitions of sexual misconduct, discussion of trauma, review of reporting obligations, a panel Q & A with student survivors and hypothetical scenarios done in groups.
(09/04/14 2:54pm)
The University’s Women’s Center hosted about 20 people for Survivor Support Network Training in the Newcomb Hall Galley Room Wednesday.
(09/04/14 4:05am)
This past Sunday, the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition (formerly known as the Sexual Assault Leadership Council) hosted a Peer Education and Sexual Violence Prevention Summit. Attendees included representatives from the SVPC member organizations (Peer Health Educators, Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Prevention Team, One Less, One in Four, and Feminism is For Everyone), and student leaders from across Grounds. This summit was the first of its kind, and facilitated an honest conversation about Sexual Violence and Misconduct, an issue that has recently erupted onto the national stage but has been a problem on our Grounds for many years.
(09/02/14 4:51am)
Watching Teresa Sullivan take the podium at Convocation on August 24, I expected the standard welcome to our incoming first year and transfer students: a few class statistics, some reflections on the special responsibility of attending the University and encouragement to find ways to serve the University and the surrounding community. I was surprised, then, when she began speaking about sexual assault.
(09/02/14 4:49am)
Watching Teresa Sullivan take the podium at Convocation on August 24, I expected the standard welcome to our incoming first year and transfer students: a few class statistics, some reflections on the special responsibility of attending the University and encouragement to find ways to serve the University and the surrounding community. I was surprised, then, when she began speaking about sexual assault.
(09/01/14 3:49am)
The Honor Committee and the University Judiciary Committee met Sunday to discuss the coming semester and review outreach and recruitment initiatives.
(09/01/14 3:47am)
Yesterday afternoon, the Sexual Assault Leadership Council hosted a summit to congregate student leaders and a “small representation of community stakeholders” to discuss sexual assault prevention at the University and how peer educators could address the University student body more broadly.
