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(10/11/13 3:49am)
With all due respect to Emily Renda and The Cavalier Daily managing board, it appears that neither fully understands the law regarding burdens of proof in sexual misconduct grievance proceedings at the University. The crux of their positions seems to be that a tension between the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX prevents the University from imposing meaningful punishments upon those who are found to have committed sexual misconduct as a matter of law. Indeed, The Cavalier Daily wrote that “[t]he University is legally stuck.” But that is simply not so, because the law is not nearly as unambiguously clear as Ms. Renda or Thursday’s editorial make it seem.
(10/11/13 3:22am)
For state crime reporting purposes, the Incident Based Reporting System used by the Virginia Department of State Police uses the term “forcible fondling” to include acts of aggravated sexual battery, sexual battery and attempted sexual battery. Aggravated sexual battery is an act that causes serious bodily or mental injury with the intent to sexually molest, arouse, or gratify.
(10/10/13 6:53am)
“I’ve been sexually assaulted.”
(10/10/13 4:38am)
The University of Virginia has a problem with rape.
(10/10/13 4:35am)
The Women’s Center has partnered with the Avon Foundation to launch a social media campaign to engage University students in the fight against gender violence. The competition challenges students to create a 30-second video public service announcement and develop a Facebook promotion that informs viewers and works to prevent gender violence around Grounds.
(10/10/13 4:28am)
Prosecuting sexual assault or sexual misconduct through student self-governance at the University has come with its fair share of challenges and quirks. The Honor Committee does not prosecute sexual misconduct, nor does the University Judiciary Committee hold sexual misbehavior in its scope of jurisdiction — in part — for legal reasons.
(10/10/13 3:25am)
The University Women’s Center commenced Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month last Tuesday, inviting students to commit to non-violence by leaving handprints on a “These Hands Are Not for Hurting” banner and planting red flags on the lawn.
(10/10/13 3:21am)
I’d like to think of myself as a survivor.
(10/10/13 3:05am)
Ten years ago, the University community was shaken by the murder of one of our students, a fourth-year woman only weeks from graduation. She had worked so hard to complete her college education, and had her whole life ahead of her, and dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Who killed her? The man who professed to love her.
(10/10/13 2:45am)
What we often forget (or try to) in discussions about sexual assault: the trauma.
(10/10/13 2:37am)
If you are a University student, whether you are aware of it or not, you almost certainly know someone who has been assaulted at some point in his or her life. If it happened recently, and you live with or care about that person, chances are that it affected you too in some way.
(10/10/13 2:32am)
Out of the undergraduates currently enrolled, it is possible that as many as 1530 women and 490 men will experience a completed or attempted sexual assault during their time at the University of Virginia. These are estimates based on national statistics, because the overwhelming majority of sexual assault — on and off Grounds — go unreported.
(10/10/13 2:21am)
“So how do you get consent without making it awkward?”
(10/10/13 2:14am)
Sexual misconduct on college campuses has garnered much recent national attention. This is especially true since the April 2011 release of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) document — the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) — setting out expectations regarding institutional response to sexual misconduct. It has caused every institution to reevaluate policies and procedures. U.Va. was in the middle of a comprehensive policy review when the DCL came out, and we incorporated its guidance into our revised policy issued in summer 2011. While one could write a piece on the impact of the DCL on higher education, my hope in writing today is to demystify what happens on Grounds when a case of sexual misconduct is reported to the Office of the Dean of Students (ODOS).
(10/10/13 2:07am)
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the question, “If we can expel people for cheating on a test, why can’t we expel someone for rape?” As someone who has worked on sexual assault prevention and adjudication during her time at U.Va. and as a survivor myself, I feel the deep frustration the apparent paradox generates. And yet, I’ve come to understand that the seemingly obvious answer—expel them, duh—is constrained by a whole host of federal legislation and precedent. It’s not about U.Va. It’s about our national system. Many of us live in the glorified legal fiction of “Law & Order: SVU.” The realities are far more complex, and sadly, far more bleak. I want to take this opportunity to clarify the frustration with a cursory legal overview of the problems institutions like U.Va. face when confronting the conflict between Title IX and due process.
(10/09/13 2:07am)
A jury found 21-year-old Charlottesville resident Manneh Vay guilty Friday of the rape of a 17-year-old female University student. The jury recommended 30 years in prison for Vay, who was also found guilty of abduction and forcible sodomy, according to a Charlottesville Police Department press release.
(10/01/13 1:56am)
Last November, Student Council’s Committee for Safety and Wellness held a forum for all then-active student CIOs with a health- or safety-related mission. Representatives from each organization gave a brief presentation about their purpose and goals followed by a series of small-group discussions. CIOs in attendance included One In Four, the all-male sexual assault peer education group, and Active Minds, the University’s primary organization dedicated to mental health issues. As a moderator for one of these small groups, it struck me that each CIO seemed to have one of two chief complaints: 1) the group had the right facts, data and pamphlets but lacked strategies at encouraging students to pay attention to their information; 2) the CIO had decent student exposure but felt it was not providing students with enough helpful information.
(09/17/13 1:17am)
Ken Cuccinelli has recently defended himself in his gubernatorial campaign against accusations that his positions are anti-woman by pointing to his involvement in starting the group Sexual Assault Facts and Education (SAFE) on Grounds at the University of Virginia while he was a student. As vice president of One Less, an organization that the University created last year through the union of SAFE and Sexual Assault Peer Advocacy (SAPA), I feel that his involvement in sexual assault prevention during his time at the University only makes his poor track record on women’s issues as a state senator, attorney general, and a gubernatorial candidate even more egregious.
(08/26/13 9:52pm)
Each fall, University students are reminded of the spirited extracurricular involvement which defines life on Grounds — and the tendency for many engaging groups to be pushed out of the spotlight. While Honor, StudCo and Madison House garner the majority of attention because of their visibility and strong ties to University ideology, U.Va. boasts an impressive 675 Contracted Independent Organizations, many of which can be easily overlooked. We take a look at eight of the most interesting groups you may never have considered.
(04/26/13 1:17am)
The past 365 days have been quite a ride for the University. With a summer that will go down in history as one the University’s defining moments, a few tear-jerking tragedies and some unbelievable and unthinkable occurrences, there was rarely a dull moment in the past year. Although we could undoubtedly publish several books with all the material we have — indeed, we’ve already published more than 100 newspapers — we will try to sum it up in fewer than 1,000 words.
