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Betsy DeVos Confirmation Will Weaken Campus Sexual Assault Response

By: Olympia Duhart | February 6, 2017

Trump’s secretary of education nominee refused at her confirmation hearing to state a firm commitment to using Title IX to respond properly to sexual assault on college campuses. That’s reason for concern.

Teen Voices

Florida Teens Consider Campus Rape During College Application Process

By: Sierra Bardfeld and Jessica Roman | November 11, 2016

How do news stories about campus rape affect a teen’s choice of colleges? Video journalists Sierra Bardfeld and Jessica Roman asked teens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Rape

Words of Stanford Rape Victim Resound Nationally and Beyond

By: Hoa Nguyen | June 13, 2016

The college’s graduation ceremony on Sunday became the latest forum for expressing outrage at a case that former football star Brian Banks, wrongly imprisoned for five years on rape charges, describes as “a case of privilege.”

Rape

Rape Trauma Is Too Serious Not to Know Our Safety Options

By: Joan Cook | April 21, 2016

Novel interventions are springing up across college campuses to help young women prevent and even recover from rape. They are not a substitute for educating males and holding perpetrators accountable. But their benefits should still be appreciated.

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What Stand Will Hillary Take on Campus Rape Law?

By: Ann Marie Cunningham | September 28, 2015

Some safety activists hail CASA, the bipartisan bill currently knocking around the Senate, as a means of curbing campus rape. But others see it as a dangerous threat to the rising and stronger protections of Title IX in this area. Will Clinton’s proposal take sides?

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Critics Spot Dangers in a Campus Safety Bill

By: Ann Marie Cunningham | June 19, 2015

The campus safety legislation, called CASA, faces a Senate vote this month. Critics say that while it may be designed to curb rape and sex assault at colleges, it could actually make it harder to investigate and prosecute campus rape.

Crime & Law
Raising rape awareness at the University of Oregon.

‘SOS Campus Act’ Actually Won’t Help Survivors

By: Wendy Murphy | August 11, 2014

Why would Congress put into federal law the idea that campus-rape reporting can be deterred? Congress must stop messing with the essential idea that when it comes to redressing sexual violence on campuses, women have a civil right to safety and equality.

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A protest in San Francisco to fight violence against women.

Calif. Campus Rape Bill Goes Beyond ‘No Means No’

By: Elizabeth Zwerling | August 4, 2014

The Student Safety: Sexual Assault, or “affirmative consent,” legislation, could reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the summer. A legislator who supports the bill says it’s time to change the mindset of “boys just getting crazy and drunk, being irresponsible.” LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Like other campus sexual assault survivors, Sofie Karasek said her attack freshman year by a classmate at the University of California-Berkeley left her distraught at first, wondering whether she should “make a big deal of it,” then puzzled and angry at what she felt was her university’s inadequate response after she reported the incident.

Crime & Law
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My Acquaintance Rapist Finally Figured It Out

By: Lisa E. Paige | July 30, 2014

Among college students, attitudes toward sexuality can be dangerously divergent, as my own traumatic experience attests. We need another campus-rape summit to talk about this.

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Texas Marriage Ban Lifted; Saudi Fathers Sought

By: WeNews Staff | March 1, 2014

The Texas law banning same-sex marriage loses a round in court. Also this week, Saudi human rights activists are advocating the government find Saudi fathers of Syrian refugees and document the citizenship of the refugees.

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