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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Disgusting UVM Fraternity Questionnaire Sparks Outrage 2 months, 1 week ago · View
Today finds me crawling out of blog hibernation to point ya’ll to the latest installment of “College Boys Just Want to Have Fun…By Demeaning Women and Making Jokes About Rape.” Today’s episode takes place at the University of Vermont, where a puzzling and revolting survey was recently distributed to the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon. [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Don’t Tell Women They’re Responsible for Rape and Then Wonder Why They Call It “Unwanted Sex” 5 months, 3 weeks ago · View
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sexual assault statistics, and so has Sandy Hingston—she recently wrote an article in Philadelphia Magazine that is a lengthy attack on Title IX protection for campus assault survivors, explored through the lens of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM). I’d have to write a novella if I [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: Media Coverage of Campus Rape: What’s Wrong With This Picture 9 months ago · View
Obviously, we at SAFER appreciate that with the increased federal attention to the issue of campus sexual violence, increased media attention has followed. More stories heard—and more survivors given the opportunity to speak out—means that more assaults will be reported, more activists will be driven to action, more schools will feel the pressure to respond, and [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Cal Poly and the University of Hawaii Petition for Better Policies 9 months ago · View
Petitions can be a great tool to show the strength (in numbers!) behind your campaign. During SAAM, I highlighted a couple of Change.org petitions that were focused on campus sexual assault policies. This week I was alerted to another, this time from the community at California Polytechnic, where three rapes have been reported just this May . Two of [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Take Note Universities: UVA is Paving the Way 9 months, 1 week ago · View
A little behind on this, but it’s still noteworthy and extremely important. Although a number of schools have started to make minor changes to their sexual misconduct policies in light of the OCR’s Dear Colleague Letter , the University of Virginia is the first to really do a full re-vamp (because they had started the process a few [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: Campus Sexual Assault Activism: Link Overload 10 months ago · View
I can’t even wrap my head around everything that’s going on right now. So many students doing awesome work, and in the midst of it all SAFER has endorsed the Campus SaVE Act (more on that soon). It looks like Sexual Assault Activism Month is going to end on a number of high notes. Just look [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: De Anza Civil Trial Comes to a Close 10 months, 1 week ago · View
This was originally posted at Change Happens . Background on this case can be found here . And no one was found liable . I can’t say I’m surprised, given how the case played-out in court, with all the “look at this party girl acting all slutty, how could she be raped?” garbage. And guess what? That tactic works. Let’s hear from some [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: Campus News Round-Up: SAAM Week One 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Let’s Start with the good stuff this week: How great is this? The USC Walkout for a Safer Campus . At least 100 USC students staged a demonstration around that disgusting frat email we were all alerted to a few weeks ago. Key to their protest was the lack of a substantive administrative response. Hey Canadian students— I [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: New Campus Sexual Assault OCR Guidance and the Biden Speech Recap 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
As you probably know by now, on Monday the Obama Administration and Office of Civil Rights released new “ regulatory guidance on how colleges and universities must respond to campus sexual assaults .” NPR does a great job of breaking down the doc’s main points . It’s a 19 page document that I’m not going to do a full [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: The Importance of Amnesty Policies: One Survivor Speaks Out 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
This was posted originally by SAFER Communications Co-Coordinator Megan at Change Happens One of the great things about social media is the way that, to a certain extent, it has democratized public conversations. I think this is especially true when it comes to experiences that are hidden or marginalized, such as sexual assault or the decision to [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Video Update from American University 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Amanda Hess has been doing a great job of covering the activists at American University who are pushing the school to sign off on a VAWA grant that will fund the school to improve their sexual assault resources. As Selena mentioned , the grant application was being blocked because the Vice President refused to sign off on mandating [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Critic’s Pick: Sexual Assault Policies and LGBTQ-Inclusive Language 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
This post was written by SAFER’s awesome intern Avanti and originally published at Change Happens After thinking about what consent means for people with disabilities , I want to explore other often marginalized identities and discuss how campus sexual assault policies use (or don’t use) lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer transgender and gender non-conforming inclusive language. Let’s begin with some [...] -
Sarah commented on the blog post Take Back the Campus: An Alumna’s Perspective 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
Morgan, thanks for this post. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER), but we work with college students to change how their school’s prevent and respond to sexual violence. We actually just launched a campaign for SAAM, encouraging students AND alumni to take action. Please check it out at [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Pledge to Make Your Campus SAFER This Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month 11 months ago · View
For the past ten years, April has been known as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This year, SAFER decided we wanted to take a slightly different approach. We’re recognizing this April as Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month , and we’re asking students and their allies to join us in pledging to take concrete steps toward holding their schools and [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: Pledge to Make Your Campus SAFER This Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month 11 months ago · View
For the past ten years, April has been known as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This year, SAFER decided we wanted to take a slightly different approach. We’re recognizing this April as Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month , and we’re asking students and their allies to join us in pledging to take concrete steps toward holding their schools and [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: Quick Hit: Good Spring Break Advice 11 months ago · View
I posted this a week or so ago on Change Happens and forgot to share it here! I found this sign in an NYU bathroom stall: Instead of “watch your drink,” this poster focuses on knowing your own limits, “communicating clearly and vocally about your sexual desires” and being prepared with contraception. Unbelievably refreshing message from a [...] -
Sarah wrote a new blog post: College Students Have Sex (Or Plan To) 11 months ago · View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxBR1AiFS4&feature=player_embedded Students at Wesleyan and Oberlin made these great videos in support of Planned Parenthood. Check them out, and look below the cut for the explanation from the Wesleyan students.
A message from students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut: In order to “balance the budget” the House of Representatives recently announced the intention to strip all [...]
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Wednesday Campus Links Round-Up 11 months ago · View
I came to my computer today ready to write an incensed post about how the De Anza civil trial is playing out, to find that Cara at The Curvature had me covered. Please read her post for the full update on the trial, but beware the depressing amount of victim-blaming/”slut-shaming” involved in this case. Last year, [...]
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Sarah commented on the blog post Dickinson College Protests Make Waves (and make the news!) 11 months, 2 weeks ago · View
No way sgeek! SAFER exists precisely because those policies are not unquestionable, or at least shouldn’t be! Countless student groups have won policy changes much like the Dickinson students. Check out our website for more info about campus policy reform, and definitely check to see if your school’s policy is in our policies database. http://www.safercampus.org.
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Sarah wrote a new blog post: Dickinson College Protests Make Waves (and make the news!) 11 months, 3 weeks ago · View
On Thursday I briefly mentioned the protests going on at Dickinson College, but by Friday the protesting students were getting some major coverage! Both Jezebel and Philly.com ran stories about the students’ demands, which include:
1. Full transparency of the sexual misconduct policy process 2. The Department of Public Safety must send red alerts to the whole campus when [...]
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