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(12/01/14 5:10am)
At a special meeting on Tuesday, the Board of Visitors unanimously passed a zero-tolerance motion on sexual assault. The resolution was reported by national media, including The Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed.
(11/25/14 6:08am)
The question comes up over and over again: why do we — at a University where Honor is the bastion of the institution — expel people for lying, cheating and stealing, but not for rape?
(11/24/14 7:12am)
Responses to Rolling Stone’s article have been eager to lay blame — on the Greek system, on the University, on President Sullivan, on Dean Eramo…somewhere. The responses seem to be dividing into two poles — vilifying the University or defending it; vilifying the Greek system or defending it. An entire bureaucracy becomes a mass of either good or evil; a point person at the top of the hierarchy becomes culpable for a problem that is more widely rooted in culture. Honing in on these targets ignores the nuances we need to pay attention to in order to address this issue.
(11/21/14 7:41am)
In the aftermath of the release of Rolling Stone’s article, anger has transformed into violence. Phi Kappa Psi’s fraternity house was vandalized Thursday — bricks thrown through windows and graffiti spray painted. The people who claimed to have vandalized the house also sent a statement to several news outlets with a list of radical demands, which included making rape a single sanction offense and the resignation of Dean Nicole Eramo.
(11/20/14 6:34am)
Reactions to Rolling Stone’s article detailing the gang rape of a University student by several fraternity brothers have been a mixture of anger, disgust and despair. It is impossible to hold onto our pride knowing such behavior not only occurred, but was also downplayed and brushed off by members of our community.
(11/19/14 5:29am)
For two years, they have heard nothing. Friends and family of Charlottesville resident Sage Smith have received no closure since her disappearance, 729 long days ago.
(11/18/14 5:44am)
Sustainability Day at the University became Sustainability Days this year, indicating a heightened focus on environmental issues. The Office for Sustainability showed two films related to climate change issues and hosted a panel Thursday, and held an event called “Hoos Talking Green” Friday, during which six speakers from the University gave short presentations.
(11/17/14 4:18am)
In its effort to end sexual violence on Grounds, the University is partnering with Green Dot etc., a national organization dedicated to ending all forms of power-based violence by creating cultural shifts within communities.
(11/14/14 3:18am)
This week Student Council discussed two new student groups aimed at increasing student safety — Buddies on Call and Student Watch. These organizations have sprung up out of heightened concern for student safety, and are making progress establishing their infrastructure.
(11/13/14 5:28am)
In 2012, The Posse Foundation launched its Veterans Initiative in partnership with Vassar College. The Posse Foundation seeks out talented students who are often overlooked by traditional recruitment methods due to race, socioeconomic status or some other prohibitive factor. One of these barriers to entry in prestigious universities is being a veteran. Vassar, along with other elite institutions, is attempting to change that.
(11/12/14 6:27am)
Johns Hopkins University recently banned all open fraternity parties for the remainder of the semester in response to a report from a 16-year-old girl that she was raped by two men at a fraternity party at the university last week. This kind of collective punishment — applying restrictions to all fraternities rather than only the ones that committed infractions — has been used at other colleges this year. Fraternity social gatherings were universally restricted at Emory last month, as well as at MIT in September, when a female guest fell out of a fraternity house window.
(11/11/14 5:40am)
The University Judiciary Committee has reconfigured a subcommittee on sexual misconduct in an effort to participate more in the University-wide effort to prevent and spread awareness about sexual assault.
(11/10/14 6:41am)
Harvard University has recently come under fire for a study conducted by researchers at the university’s Initiative for Learning and Teaching, in which students were photographed in lecture halls to record attendance. Researchers gave no notification of their activity to either the students or the professors before the study. Peter K. Bol, who oversees the Initiative for Learning and Teaching, said a federally mandated board that reviews research at Harvard concluded before it was executed that the study did not constitute human-subjects research. After the data on how many empty seats there were in lectures was collected, the photographs were destroyed, and the professors whose classes were monitored consented to the data being used for research.
(11/07/14 5:02am)
The east side of Beta Bridge was painted white in the early hours of Thursday morning, covering the message that had remained there for over a month: Bring Hannah Home. The rain, arriving and departing before sun-up, washed away some of the paint, leaving the first letter still visible. The resulting partial veneer perhaps represents the struggle to forget a tragedy in the community, knowing that those emotions remain right beneath the surface — they burst through, like the vibrant blues and greens.
(11/06/14 6:27am)
In 1971, a University student who stole cans of soda from a vending machine was charged with an honor offense, found guilty, and asked to leave the University. Public outcry led the Honor Committee to nullify the verdict the next day. Since then, students at the University have been engaged in a debate over the single sanction system, which continued Wednesday evening at the Honor Committee and Sustained Dialogue’s discussion.
(11/05/14 4:47am)
After a recent revelation that an Alcorn State football player is a registered sex offender, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is facing pressure to establish a rule that no convicted felons can participate in their sports.
(11/04/14 5:20am)
Florida A&M University Marching 100 band percussionist Dante Martin was recently found guilty of manslaughter and three counts of hazing for the death of drum major Robert Champion. Martin was prosecuted for manslaughter because he was the main orchestrator of a ritual which took place on a bus, during which Champion attempted to move from the front of the bus to the back while being beaten by his fellow band members. He died soon after from hemorrhagic shock.
(11/03/14 6:08am)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday in favor of Robin Meade, an adjunct professor who sued Moraine Valley Community College after they fired her for writing a scathing letter about the college to an international community college group. This decision reversed that of a lower court which found the college was within its rights to terminate Meade.
(10/31/14 1:11am)
The U.S. Department of Education has released the final version of its “gainful employment” rule, which evaluates whether colleges are burdening their students with too much debt. The new rule will no longer look at the percentage of borrowers from each college who default on their loans; it will only examine graduates’ debt-to-income ratios. In order to pass, this ratio must be less than 8 percent; any higher and the school is at risk of no longer receiving federal funding for student aid.
(10/30/14 4:31am)
The University Women’s Center and Sigma Psi Zeta sorority have co-sponsored Domestic Violence Awareness events throughout the month of October, including a panel yesterday titled, “A Survivor’s Guide to Relationship Violence.” Members of the panel included fourth-year College student Sandra Menendez, a survivor of intimate partner violence, Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo, and Henrico Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge Maggie Deglau.