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The state of California is poised to make “yes means yes” the standard of consent for all its private and public universities. Senate Bill 967, if signed by Governor Jerry Brown, would require universities to determine whether a complainant said yes, instead of whether she said no when investigating sexual assault cases.
As the new school year begins, Student Council has big plans to better assist University students and address particular concerns.
A growing number of innovative risk-management solutions are sprouting up at universities nationwide — increasingly aimed at combatting sexual assault on campuses.
University President Teresa Sullivan sent an email Tuesday announcing a new policy which will require all faculty and staff to report incidents of sexual misconduct to Title IX Coordinator Darlene Scott-Scurry. A student cannot request that her disclosure to a faculty member be kept confidential unless she is speaking to a “Confidential Employee” — a counselor or a nurse — though she can request that no investigation be opened.
In an email to the University community Wednesday, University President Teresa Sullivan announced a new University policy requiring most faculty and staff to report allegations of sexual misconduct they hear from students.
In the spirit of the new school year, I thought it would be appropriate to offer up a set of resolutions for the coming year, an “agenda” of sorts, which our student leaders might heed as they govern their organizations in the coming year. This university is a haven, in many ways, from the turmoil that plagues the outside world, but that is not to say that the institutions that govern student life at this University are perfect, or even close to it. Cracks in the surface do exist.
Students at North Carolina State University have developed a nail polish that can detect the presence of date rape drugs. The product is intended to serve as a defense mechanism against sexual assault.
As thousands of students across the country return to their respective campuses, college and university administrators nationwide continue to rethink sexual assault prevention and investigation policies.
In order to alert students of course materials containing potentially traumatic topics, professors around the nation have begun placing “trigger warnings” on course syllabi, a trend that emerged from the feminist blogosphere. In April, Oberlin College scrapped a policy that advised professors to provide trigger warnings after faculty members protested that the guidelines threatened academic and pedagogical freedom. Oberlin made the right move; trigger warnings do not belong in higher education.
The issue of sexual assault on college campuses is in the midst of a “public moment,” so to speak. In late April, the White House released a task force report issuing recommendations for reforming how colleges handle sexual assault, the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s campaign to bring attention to the issue. The White House has also created a website, www.NotAlone.gov, replete with resources for students and schools on how to best combat sexual assault.
The University is one of 55 institutions on a list the U.S. Department of Education released on Thursday of schools currently under investigation for possible violations of Title IX, a federal law which outlines, among other things, requirements for universities when responding to complaints about sexual violence.
Following her own experience with sexual assault as a first-year, fourth-year College student Emily Renda worked with numerous organizations around Grounds to promote sexual assault prevention — leading her all the way to the White House this spring to advise a task force on sexual assault. Renda will head to graduate school this fall, pursuing both a law degree and a master’s degree in public health. Image courtesy of Emily Renda
With a recent spike in highly-publicized collegiate tragedies attributed to mental illness, increased attention is being paid to deficiencies in psychological and counseling services universities offer. State incidents, including the campus massacre of 32 Virginia Tech students in 2007 and the number of suicides which occur every year, have increased pressure on Virginia schools to both meet and monitor the mental health of young adults.
In January of this year, Yale student Rachel Williams published a piece in the Yale Daily News about how she severely harmed herself, went to a psychiatric hospital and was then told to leave the university. In March, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a story about Carissa Lundquist, a student who checked herself into a hospital after her complaint of sexual assault was dismissed due to lack of evidence. Carissa’s enrollment was then delayed when she came back for her final semester; the university told her she must be psychiatrically evaluated, or leave.
Last Tuesday Student Council passed the Sexual Misconduct Awareness, Recovery, and Tangible resolution, which was written with input from One Less, Take Back the Night and the Sexual Misconduct Board. The resolution includes seven main proposals, each of which we analyze and assess in this editorial.
Living exclusively among young adults, our perspective within the microcosm that is the University can at times be myopic. However involved students are with extracurriculars that look beyond the scope of the University, our day-to-day actions remain hopelessly disconnected from the norms that would otherwise dictate our behavior in the “outside world.”
Take Back the Night, a national organization founded in 1999 which “seeks to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence,” according to its website, has shown its presence in full force this week as the University chapter hosts a number of events leading up to Thursday night’s rally and vigil. As a part of the roster, TBTN held an Open Arts Slam Wednesday night on the mezzanine of the University bookstore.
The University chapter of the Take Back the Night Foundation hosted a rally and vigil Thursday night to generate awareness about gender-based sexual violence and give survivors of sexual assault an outlet to speak out and share their stories.
Take Back the Night is a tradition that started in the 1970s with the goal of eliminating sexual violence. One of the first marches was held in Philadelphia in October 1975 after Susan Alexander Speeth was stabbed and killed while walking home alone.
At its Tuesday night meeting, just weeks after the newest executive committee was sworn in, Student Council passed a landmark resolution in regards to sexual misconduct at the University. The Sexual Misconduct Awareness, Recovery, and Tangible resolution, or SMART, offers proposals to raise awareness and offer resources to survivors by working with both student groups and University administrators. Seven clauses outline changes to student education, involvement and administrative action.