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This is why we need more women in student leadership

By Chloe | Published: October 18, 2011
TweetLast year at my alma mater, a committee was formed to investigate why there were so few women in student government leadership. When the committee presented its findings in March of this year, this was one of them: Although some women do run for elected office, many students choose less visible jobs behind the scenes. [...]
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Quick hit: How colleges get around Title IX (hint: it’s by lying)

By Chloe | Published: April 26, 2011
TweetIt’s long been an open secret that colleges tend to work around the rules in order to make it look like they’re complying with Title IX, the law that, among other things, requires institutions that receive federal funding to distribute that money equally between men’s and women’s sports teams. Today, the New York Times ran [...]
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“Plagiarism is something people are expelled or suspended for, but there seems to be a near-infinite tolerance for rape.”

By Chloe | Published: April 1, 2011
Tweet**Trigger warning** It was announced yesterday that a group of current Yale undergraduates and young alumni have filed a Title IX complaint against the University. The complaint was filed several weeks ago and yesterday, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that it will begin an investigation into how the University handles complaints [...]
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Urine found on at least 40 LGBT books in a Harvard library.

By Samhita | Published: December 13, 2010
TweetYes, you read that right. Forty or so books were found to be vandalized in Lamont Library by urine. Since the books have to do with LGBT issues and gay marriage, the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, as it should be. Marco Chan ’11, co-chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and [...]
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Feministing on Tour: Offline and Unfiltered

By Vanessa | Published: September 30, 2010
TweetSome of you may remember Feministing kicking off our college tour last year — we decided that after years of blogging online, it was about time we meet more of our readers face to face. After all, it’s one thing to have the occasional local happy hour, but another to be able to sit down [...]
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