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(09/01/14 3:38am)
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.
(08/29/14 3:07am)
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.
(08/28/14 5:14am)
Last spring, we endorsed the University’s decision to rescind the Fraternal Organization Agreements of Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu. Dean of Students Allen Groves cited dangerous initiation activities when explaining the decision.
(08/27/14 2:49am)
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.
(08/26/14 3:58am)
Two Catholic California universities, Loyola Marymount and Santa Clara, planned to drop abortion coverage from their employees’ health insurance plans in an effort to “adhere to Catholic teachings,” according to Inside Higher Ed. The state has now intervened, sending letters to insurance companies instructing them not to cooperate with the universities’ plans. According to a California law passed in 1975, insurance companies cannot discriminate against women who want to have abortions.
(08/22/14 4:20am)
The Board of Visitors’ first draft of its Statement of Expectations was met with ire from the public. Of particular concern was language essentially forbidding public dissent. Now the Board has released a new draft striking such language from the document, leaving members free to publicly dissent, as long as they recognize that only the Rector can act as spokesperson for the Board as a whole.
(04/29/14 5:06am)
Recently, a University of Connecticut professor responded aggressively to preachers who came to the UConn campus to proclaim “evolution is a lie,” among other messages. The professor, James Boster, who teaches anthropology, came very close to the visiting preachers and yelled at them, repeatedly asking if they had read Darwin and using expletives to charge them with ignorance.
(04/28/14 3:57am)
Two years ago, the Department of Education attempted to draft regulations to improve teacher preparation programs, but the members of the panel in charge of evaluating the proposed regulations could not reach a consensus on how best to evaluate the programs. According to The Chronicle, the proposal would have required states to assess their teacher preparation programs based on three data points: graduates’ employment outcomes, their students’ test scores and customer satisfaction surveys.
(04/24/14 11:45pm)
176,151: Amount of money, in dollars, the University received from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a radio show project, “Finding the American Way”
(04/24/14 4:12am)
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.
(04/23/14 4:39am)
This month, the University revoked the FOAs of both Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu fraternities. Dean of Students Allen Groves said both fraternities engaged in unacceptable activities which qualified as misconduct. Groves said these incidents left “no room for negotiating,” resulting in the termination the Fraternal Organization Agreement. Neither fraternity will be eligible for a new FOA until May 2016, though PIKA plans to appeal the decision.
(04/22/14 5:21am)
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.
(04/21/14 5:31am)
The University of Connecticut recognized a union composed of about 2,100 graduate assistants Friday. The graduates will be able to negotiate wages, hours and working conditions, but will have no power over academic decisions, like curriculum content and tuition.
(04/18/14 5:50am)
This week the American Men’s Studies Association held its annual conference in Tacoma, Wash. According to Tom Bartlett of The Chronicle, many attendees expressed frustration that even though their field has existed for 40 years, people still doubt its legitimacy. To quote from Bartlett’s article: “As the joke goes, we already have men’s studies: It’s called history.”
(04/17/14 5:13am)
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.
(04/16/14 5:58am)
A religious studies instructor at Missouri State University is defending his decision to invite a former Ku Klux Klan leader to speak to his class two years ago. The instructor, David Embree, is facing scrutiny now because the speaker, Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., is now the prime suspect for the murder of three people at Jewish centers in Kansas City Sunday.
(04/15/14 5:04am)
After facing heavy criticism from faculty members, Oberlin College has tabled its policy on trigger warnings, which is meant to alert students about class material that might be disturbing, and give them the option not to view or read such material. The policy’s main criticisms are that its definitions are too broad, it threatens academic freedom and it was drafted without sufficient faculty input.
(04/14/14 5:32am)
The University recently officialized its partnership with Rolls-Royce as part of a network of universities affiliated with the company which have centers dedicated to research and new technology. Rolls-Royce will provide the University with funding for student resources, and in return, students from the Commerce School and the Engineering School will contribute to business and research projects for the company.
(04/11/14 6:44am)
University students joined together to counter a demonstration Wednesday which happened to coincide with the University’s Pride Week. The group of students joined hands and sang the “Good Ol’ Song” in order to drown out the protesters’ speech, which included homophobic statements and condemnations of many members of the University community.
(04/10/14 4:57am)
The University LGBTQ Center is currently exploring the prospect of gender neutral housing on Grounds. Gay Perez, executive director of Housing and Residence Life said the University “consider[s] requests related to undergraduate gender neutral arrangements on a case-by-case basis” and there is currently no explicit policy regarding gender neutral housing.