Posts Tagged colleges

By Jos Truitt • 11 years ago

Bring Feministing to your school!

Do you love reading Feministing and want to bring that magic to your campus? Are there feminist issues in your community that you want to inspire action around? Are you and your friends the future of feminist blogging, but looking for ideas about how to get started? Want to nerd out with Feministing editors about organizing strategy and Mad Men?

All of that’s possible with our speaking tour, Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered. For four years, Feministing has been traveling to college campuses and community centers to meet with students, activists and professors to discuss important issues on campus, in the community, and in national and international politics. And we’re hitting the road again for year five! We have a ...

Do you love reading Feministing and want to bring that magic to your campus? Are there feminist issues in your community that you want to inspire action around? Are you and your friends the future of ...
By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

This is why we need more women in student leadership

Last 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. However, some women have expressed interest in more prominent posts and were actively discouraged by other students.

The committee found that on my former campus, as on many others, I’m sure, when women consider running for “visible campus posts” that require active campaigning, they “get the message from peers that such posts are more appropriately sought by men.” They get the message that woman’s ...

Last 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 ...
By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

Quick hit: How colleges get around Title IX (hint: it’s by lying)

It’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 a damning article about all the different loopholes that schools use to get around that requirement:

At the University of South Florida, more than half of the 71 women on the cross-country roster failed to run a race in 2009. Asked about it, a few laughed and said they did not know they were on the team.

At Marshall University, the women’s tennis coach recently invited ...

It’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 ...
By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

“Plagiarism is something people are expelled or suspended for, but there seems to be a near-infinite tolerance for rape.”

**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 of sexual harassment and assault.

The complainants, a group that comprises sixteen male and female students, allege that because the University has failed to properly respond to sexual harassment and assault, Yale campus is a “hostile environment,” that, in the words of one of the complainants, “precludes women from having the same equal opportunity to the Yale education as their male counterparts.”

The Yale Herald ...

**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 ...
By Samhita • 13 years ago

Urine found on at least 40 LGBT books in a Harvard library.

Yes, 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 Allies, called the incident “extremely frustrating” and “disconcerting,” and said that it represents a concern not only for the LGBT community, but for the Harvard community at large.

“I am very outraged. It is hard to conceive this as a coincidence when there are 40 books on the same subject,” Chan said. “The message that this incident sent to me is that we need more resources ...

Yes, 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 ...
By Winter Trabex • 14 years ago

Yes, I Have An Opinion

Last week, I choose to support the college’s FMLA chapter by attending an event called the Breastival. The event was held to promote awareness of breast cancer issues, and even though I’m active member of our FMLA group, I went there as opposed to doing something else…like watching anime..

For those of you who don’t know, I’m transgender. Moreover, I mostly pass as a man. It’s not often that I choose to dress up as the female that I feel I am, and when I attended the Breastival, I didn’t dress up that day either. To some extent, having only three skirts and one pair of heeled boots limits my choices. So I knew going in that people who didn’t know ...

Last week, I choose to support the college’s FMLA chapter by attending an event called the Breastival. The event was held to promote awareness of breast cancer issues, and even though I’m active member of our FMLA ...
By Winter Trabex • 14 years ago

Pockets of Understanding

With all the attention focused on the Yale fraternity as of late, not much has been said about the positive issues that take place on campuses throughout the country. I’m writing this blog to talk about a very positive experience I’ve had today.

Hi, my name is Winter Trabex. I’m a transgender lesbian feminist who doesn’t eat meat. I currently go to Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. Shippensburg is a state school that has been around for a while, but doesn’t have a lot of national recognition. Having our grounds double as public property might have something to do with that.

For a while, the prevailing belief at Shippensburg was that no one wanted to get involved with anything. It was ...

With all the attention focused on the Yale fraternity as of late, not much has been said about the positive issues that take place on campuses throughout the country. I’m writing this blog to talk ...

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