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Emma Sulkowicz thought she would be carrying her mattress alone. As her senior performance art project, the Columbia University student chose to carry around the twin mattress on which she was raped until her rapist was expelled. Word of the project, called “Carry That Weight,” spread across the Internet and other media. Women across campus responded…
After years of criticism for being too lax on campus sexual assault, some colleges and universities are coming under fire from students who say the current crackdown on perpetrators has gone too far. Dozens of students who’ve been punished for sexual assault are suing their schools, saying that they didn’t get a fair hearing and…
Few issues affecting higher education have captured as much national attention this year as sexual assaults on college campuses. When Congress reconvenes after its August recess, a bipartisan group of lawmakers will continue their push to pass legislationaimed at curbing campus sexual assaults. The Obama administration has taken on the issue, making public recommendations for how colleges should…
Danielle Dirks is an assistant professor of sociology at Occidental College, co-founder of End Rape on Campus and the author of the forthcoming “Confronting Campus Rape: Legal Landscapes, New Media and Networked Activism.” For decades, American universities have hidden a silent epidemic of sexual assault. Despite the fact that one in five college women will…
Sexual assaults on university campuses have become a hot topic in Washington, state legislatures, and in the news. With consistent reports (like this one from The New York Times) of institutions botching their responses to these cases, FIRE has long argued that campuses are ill-equipped to adjudicate these cases and that the guilt or innocence…
Photo Anna, outside the Barn, a campus dance hall, said she was sexually assaulted there weeks into her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Credit Leslye Davis/The New York Times GENEVA, N.Y. — She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night…
Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. Emma Sulkowicz has had enough. As the movement against sexual assault on campus continues to grow, Sulkowicz, CC ’15, has decided to take matters into her own hands by filing a police report against the Columbia student who allegedly raped her a year and a half…
There’s still debate about whether men who commit sexual assault on college campuses are predators, or men who got drunk and made a mistake. Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Getty Images Findings of the Center for Public Integrity and NPR News Investigation: — Colleges almost never expel men who are found responsible for sexual…
Photo Emma Sulkowicz joined a federal complaint against Columbia University after officials dismissed her report about a rape. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times Emma Sulkowicz said she knew it would be awful to go before a disciplinary panel and describe being raped by a fellow student, but nothing prepared her for what…
Photo Students filed with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against Columbia University. Credit Robert Caplin for The New York Times Pressure on Columbia University to overhaul its approach to sexual assault and harassment reached a new pitch on Thursday, when a group of students filed complaints with the federal government, charging systematic mishandling…