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After years of criticism for being too lax on campus sexual assault, some colleges and universities are coming under fire from students who say the current crackdown on perpetrators has gone too far. Dozens of students who’ve been punished for sexual assault are suing their schools, saying that they didn’t get a fair hearing and…
Few issues affecting higher education have captured as much national attention this year as sexual assaults on college campuses. When Congress reconvenes after its August recess, a bipartisan group of lawmakers will continue their push to pass legislationaimed at curbing campus sexual assaults. The Obama administration has taken on the issue, making public recommendations for how colleges should…
In one of the most famous passages of the New Testament, the apostle Paul writes to the Christians of Corinth, employing a complicated series of metaphors on the theme of transformation: from childhood to adulthood, from ignorance to knowledge, from sinfulness to a state of grace. “When I was a child, I spake as a…
Danielle Dirks is an assistant professor of sociology at Occidental College, co-founder of End Rape on Campus and the author of the forthcoming “Confronting Campus Rape: Legal Landscapes, New Media and Networked Activism.” For decades, American universities have hidden a silent epidemic of sexual assault. Despite the fact that one in five college women will…
Earlier today, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a revised version of his USA FREEDOM legislation, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014, which focuses on telephone record collection and FISA Court reform. While this bill is not a comprehensive solution to overbroad and unconstitutional surveillance, it is a strong first step. EFF urges Congress to support passage…
Sexual assaults on university campuses have become a hot topic in Washington, state legislatures, and in the news. With consistent reports (like this one from The New York Times) of institutions botching their responses to these cases, FIRE has long argued that campuses are ill-equipped to adjudicate these cases and that the guilt or innocence…
Photo Anna, outside the Barn, a campus dance hall, said she was sexually assaulted there weeks into her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Credit Leslye Davis/The New York Times GENEVA, N.Y. — She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night…
The Miami coastline: there are fears that even a 30cm rise in the sea level could be catastrophic. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty A drive through the sticky Florida heat into Alton Road in Miami Beach can be an unexpectedly awkward business. Most of the boulevard, which runs north through the heart of the resort’s most opulent…
TIME Newsfeed society What I Learned as a Woman at a Men’s-Rights Conference Don Bayley—Getty Images I went to the conference in suburban Detroit expecting a group of feminist-hating Internet trolls; I found much more Detroit once epitomized the possibilities of the American Dream: as the hub of the U.S. auto industry, money, power and…
Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. Emma Sulkowicz has had enough. As the movement against sexual assault on campus continues to grow, Sulkowicz, CC ’15, has decided to take matters into her own hands by filing a police report against the Columbia student who allegedly raped her a year and a half…