Hazing is more than just a Greek problem
A former University student and swim team member has filed a lawsuit against other members of his team alleging he was hazed by them. The lawsuit has been scheduled for trial in September 2016.
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A former University student and swim team member has filed a lawsuit against other members of his team alleging he was hazed by them. The lawsuit has been scheduled for trial in September 2016.
This summer, Columbia University became the first U.S. university to divest its stocks from the private prison industry. The decision was largely motivated by student campaigns to Columbia’s board of trustees — making the decision a prime example of the way in which boards can and should respond to the will of the students they serve.
This summer, Wheaton College in Illinois announced it will stop offering health insurance plans to students as part of its effort to avoid providing birth control coverage as required by the Affordable Care Act. According to The Chicago Tribune, this decision halts coverage for roughly a quarter of the college’s 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students, though it will not affect health care insurance for faculty and staff.
Yesterday, two members of the WDBJ-TV team — a reporter and a cameraman — were tragically shot to death on live television. Franklin County Police, with assistance from the Virginia State Police, apprehended a man in relation to the shooting. A former coworker, the suspect, who has since died, live-tweeted the shooting and posted a graphic video of the shooting on social media.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday granted a stay application from former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. This decision means McDonnell, who was found guilty last year of 11 counts of corruption and sentenced to two years in federal prison, is allowed to remain free pending the possibility of a further appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
While many of us were away for the summer, the University underwent some changes: Rotunda construction continued, a new class of students prepared to join us, hackers infiltrated our technology systems and we were met with an updated medical insurance policy. This last change — while it may seem to create another layer of red tape for students — was a particularly positive change for current and incoming University students.
4: Number of student deaths this academic year.
Recently, two first-year College students started a petition to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all first-year residence halls, which has garnered 221 signatures as of publication. The installation of these bathrooms would be a smart move for the University if it truly wants to be a progressive institution that is welcoming to a wide range of students.
A recent study that examined a high-profile admissions scandal at the University of Illinois suggests decisions administrators make that the wider public may consider unethical — such as intervening in admissions processes on behalf of connected applicants — are not the product of being an unethical administrator, but are actually the result of many factors. The most troubling and significant factor is, according to the study, existing administrative structures at universities.
Yesterday, Nicole Eramo, associate dean of students and chair of the Sexual Misconduct Board, released an open letter to Rolling Stone magazine condemning the magazine for its defamatory portrayal of her and her work in its article “A Rape on Campus,” touching upon how the magazine’s failure has affected sexual assault survivors here at the University.
On the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, there is a prominent statue of Jefferson Davis. It was built to honor him, as he served as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. This past March, UT-Austin’s student government passed a resolution in favor of the removal of the statue from campus, with the school’s vice-president elect saying it “serves as a permanent reminder of the atrocities committed against fellow humans.” Just a few days ago, the statue was vandalized for the second time this semester.
Recently, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a New York college which previously charged no tuition for all students, regardless of need, and announced it would start charging graduate students tuition in 2012, began charging undergraduate students tuition in 2014 — a decision that was met with significant outcry from its student body.
This past Friday and Saturday, University Programs Council presented the movie “American Sniper” as part of its weekly movie series. The movie has been criticized for allegedly condoning anti-Muslim and anti-Middle Eastern stereotypes, and at the University of Michigan a showing was cancelled (and subsequently rescheduled alongside an education panel) because of the resulting student outcry. Compared to the University of Michigan — and in general — both UPC and the Muslim Student Association, which issued a response to the showing, demonstrated a good way to approach contentious art on a college campus.
Last October, a panel of federal judges ruled that Virginia’s congressional district map is unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering in the 3rd Congressional District. After this decision, the Supreme Court sent a case challenging a redistricting plan in Alabama back to a lower court for further review. Given this previous case, when the case regarding Virginia’s 3rd District came to the Supreme Court this past March, the Court remanded the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. This means the U.S. District Court will reexamine its original decision, which required that the General Assembly produce a new map by April 2015.
The Board of Visitors recently approved the addition of a non-voting faculty member to its body; the Board will appoint someone by next semester to serve a one-year term, though the selection process has not yet been finalized. This is a step in the right direction for a Board that is in dire need of better exposure to the concerns of its constituents.
Last Sunday, during Columbia University’s “Days on Campus” event for prospective students, the anti-sexual assault student group No Red Tape projected phrases like “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” on Columbia’s Low Library in central campus. According to The Columbia Daily Spectator, Graduate Hall Director Rainikka Corprew and public safety officers obstructed the projection of the phrases, telling activists to wait until prospective students left Columbia’s campus before projecting onto the library again.
University Board of Visitors member Dr. Edward D. Miller recently quit his position one year before his term was up, citing frustration with rising tuition and falling research dollars. While Miller pointed to issues he had advocated for that he felt were not being sufficiently addressed, he also addressed internal frustrations with the Board — frustrations that indicate broader transparency problems both within and outside the Board.
With discussion of whether University President Teresa Sullivan’s contract will be renewed and the plethora of issues that have received national attention this year, many at U.Va. have voiced disapproval of or support for Sullivan as our president. But this focus on Sullivan, while important, has overshadowed the importance and relevance of other administrators — administrators who directly impact issues like sexual assault, race relations and other problems facing our student body.
This year, the University further shifted toward hiring non-tenure track professors (“non-tenure track” is the University’s term for “adjunct”). Information released under the Freedom of Information Act shows that in the 2012-13 academic year, there were 151 non-tenure track teaching faculty, whereas in the 2014-15 year there have been 270. This compares to the roughly 860 tenure-track professors for both academic years.
In a new addition to an existing string of offenses, it has recently come to light that Aramark — the same company that serves food at the University — served garbage to inmates at a prison in Michigan. More specifically, prisoners at Saginaw Correctional Facility have been served food that was previously thrown in the trash. In the past, Aramark has also underfed inmates and fed them dog food, worms and scraps of food from old meals, as well as sold generally degraded qualities of food to prisons.