Many of us personally experience the impacts of economic hardship or identity-based discrimination, but we do not see, first hand, the consequences when another plastic water bottle is thrown into a landfill.
The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots.
The advantage to having students rather than administrators lead the initiative for greater safety is that students can more easily view their peers as models for how they should be living in this community.
The problem, it seems, is that many veterans remain completely unaware of the resources available to them, and elite universities seem more like a pipe dream than an achievable goal.
So it may seem as though disallowing fraternity parties would reduce the number of sexual assaults, but this approach only attacks the venues, rather than the roots of the problem.
One possible role could be assisting in University-wide education efforts, both about the procedures of sexual misconduct cases at the University and what it means to abide by the 12 standards of conduct.
If students had been notified that class attendance would be recorded, such knowledge may have influenced their behavior, and the researchers would not have gotten a baseline idea of lecture attendance under normal circumstances.
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.
Some acts are severe enough to conclude we do not want the student in our community anymore, but there should be a middle ground in which discipline is warranted, but so is a second chance.
Presumably, students who are expelled for sexual misconduct can just go on to attend other universities — no matter if they are athletes who get recruited to play for teams, or if they just apply and are accepted based on academic credentials.
Hazing is not just characteristic of Greek culture; it is a consequence of group dynamics and peer pressure.
Adjuncts should not have to live in fear that any outspoken criticism of their employers will result in their termination, especially when some improvements for adjuncts would also result in improvements for students.
Colleges need to be held responsible for weighing their students down with more debt than they can handle.
Not only can emotional abuse be damaging in and of itself, but it can also be a precursor to physical violence.
Not all young people want or have the resources to take four years to graduate, and they may be attracted to the potential advantage in the job market.
Rather than taking a blanket approach to exclude all applicants who have felony convictions — regardless of whether the convictions were expunged — college admissions offices ought to carefully consider these applications on a case-by-case basis.
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Taking away anonymous advertising opportunities will make it more difficult for them to run their businesses and more likely for law enforcement to apprehend and prosecute perpetrators.
But it is becoming increasingly clear that restricting the definition of “woman” is a discriminatory practice, and it is not worth uplifting one minority group if another is oppressed in the process.
Requiring colleges to report these different types of incidents rightly responds to statistics which reveal other ways college women are often victimized.
