Tag Archives: campus safety

The radical potential and great disappointment of school sexual misconduct boards

By Alexandra | Published: March 8, 2013
TweetIn a development that surprised exactly no one who has been following the recent stories of mishandled sexual violence reports at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has agreed to investigate the school’s policies and practices. The investigation is prompted by a complaint filed in [...]
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Amherst student debunks all the rape myths in the school’s “sexual misconduct” report

By Alexandra | Published: February 6, 2013
TweetIn response to former student Angie Epifano’s account of Amherst’s shockingly cruel and inept response to her sexual assault, the school called together a Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct to conduct an investigation of campus policy and practice.  Last week the Committee released its 55-page report. While the document does criticize Amherst’s approach to sexual [...]
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The Feministing Five: Ben Privot

By Lori | Published: April 9, 2011
Tweet Ben Privot has made it his personal mission to, in his own words, “present consent as extremely sexy”. And he’s off to a fantastic start. His brand new initiative, The Consensual Project (TCP), was founded in mid January of this year to promote consent between partners as a method for making sexual interaction healthier, [...]
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