Emma Sulkowicz was allegedly raped as sophomore in college at Columbia university. She states that it started off as a consensual sexual encounter, but then she was anally raped. After eight months and hearing from two other girls that had been sexually assaulted by the same man, she went and filed a complaint with the university. The man that was accused was found “not responsible” by the school. This lead Emma to take matters into her own hands and she started the Mattress Performance which was where she would carry her fifty pound mattress with her wherever she went until the accused either left the school or was kicked out. She also filed a police report, which was not pursued based off lack of reasonable suspicion.
I think that it’s appalling that the university didn’t believe Emma, let alone two other girls. It makes me as a woman feel unsafe and not protected when the likelihood of something like this happening on my
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This means that each party interacting together must give clear consent to continue on with sexual advancements. It states that any force, coercion, incapacitation or drugs and alcohol are involved are things that make it so someone can’t give clear consent. They also have an amnesty clause, meaning that OSU will not pursue any conduct violation against a survivor for substance use, possession or distribution at the time of sexual assault/harassment. Oregon State has confidential support, counseling and advocacy on campus, including the number in the center against rape and domestic violence, the addresses and number for the sexual assault support services, the number and addresses for the sexual assault nurse examiner and different reporting options like the office of equity and inclusion, the department of public safety and Oregon State police and the off campus law
A seemingly uncorrelated death of a child becomes an attack on two businesses that brought forth unwanted attention. It reveals how corporations can truly neglect their surroundings and the safety of citizens without remorse. In the quaint town of Woburn, Massachusetts, the death of Anne Anderson’s son due to leukemia quickly transformed from a personal tragedy to an extensive lawsuit. Anne Anderson approached Jan Schlichtmann, a personal injury lawyer, to tackle the case. From the beginning, Anne makes it clear that she does not want money, she simply wants an apology.
1. A student who came to the rescue of UBC assault victim testifies The article explores the witness Adam Casey’s experience when a fellow student, Mary Hare, was being assaulted in her dorm. During a chief examination, he stated his actions throughout the whole ordeal. Several panicked women rushed into the residence’s common building and reported the issue, Adam Casey, asked if they’d called 911 and the women responded that they had then he ran to where the assault was occurring.
Many young women feel pressure to always look their best, and pale skin is certainly not "in." But one woman, named Ashley Trenner, warned young girls that they should be thankful for the skin they are born with, because trying to change it could cost them their life. Trenner began using tanning beds when she was in high school, and she tanned so much that her mother begged her to stop. But Trenner refused, and for 15 years, she visited the tanning bed a few times every week.
Just because she wasn't herself that night doesn’t give you the right to take advantage of her. In the article, "Getting to 'No' " by Susan Dominus talks about sexual assault and how it affects everyone. Although Dominus talks about her experience and others as well, but she lacks facts to back her up. Young women that are in college are sexual assaulted on campus. Susan Dominus is one of the victims, but she doesn't consider herself one.
The other victim is a young girl whose name was not given, and she was raped at a high school party after getting highly intoxicated. Many witnesses say that they saw her passed out, unable to walk, and even called her a mess during the time. There were various pictures and videos of her posted that night where the statements of the witnesses were confirmed (Strasser,2013). Both victims were taken advantage of and thankfully their rapists were both convicted. The first case was a little more difficult because there’s always going to be an issue with disability and consent.
In today’s society, we have former National Football League(NFL) quarterback Collin Kapernick who’s no longer in the NFL because of his protest against racial inequality. However, many people believe he is no longer in the NFL because of his talent. Kapernick led the 49ers to Super Bowl 47. Although they didn’t win, he threw for 302 yards with a touchdown and rushed for 62 yards. Therefore, he didn’t get kicked out of the league because he wasn’t good enough, but for sitting down during the national anthem.
Michigan State’s handling, or frankly lack there of handling of sexual assault cases has been appalling to say the least. Administrators have chosen not to address the multiple institutional issues we have in our community and have repeatedly tried to pay off survivors in the past with large monetary gifts for their silence. This past year has been extremely trying and irritating for not only survivors, but also the rest of the Michigan State community. However, I think that it is important to remember and utilize Burke’s thoughts about joy and accountability when moving forward. We need to learn from these atrocities and we need to set an example for other universities and institutions that this will not be tolerated and the survivors will not be tolerated.
It looks scary how vulnerable the survivor can be at the time of assault. However, as long as the matter of violence is associated, the students at college campuses are safer than their non-college mates. Some training and education has been administrated to the students for awareness about the violence and sexual assaults. Even, with increased training and education, most of the college campuses have much longer way to go for decreasing the intensity and number of assaults and the incidents have immense negative impact on the society and people around us.
Gwen Stefani just got a pretty big gift and speculation is that it could be from her new boyfriend Blake Shelton. It is very obvious that Blake is a country boy at heart, even if he is in LA a lot lately for work on The Voice. Now US Magazine is reporting that someone gave Gwen the gift of a horse and of course everyone assumes it was from Blake. Gwen told her fans all about the animal by heading to her Instagram page. She said “My new bunny” and then tagged “#Bestpresentever hi Halo.”
In Zoë Heller’s Rape on the Campus, She advocates how sexual assault happens often on campuses, and that it needs to be significantly more addressed; as it is scarce for women to bring the college’s attention to the assault. Heller asserts that, “20 percent of women are sexually assaulted during their time at college and as few as 5 percent of these assaults are ever reported to police” (185). Noting that ninety-five percent of sexual assault cases are dealt by the college, colleges can take advantage and handle its reputation by outputting false information to cover any potential negative reputation. While colleges are forced to obey the rules of title IX, I believe this is an inadequate effort to remove bias teachers and workers from colleges.
That could have been prevented with Sabrina looking into it more and not giving Jackie too much freedom to decide what Sabrina could research during the story. Another error in the story was Sabrina quoting Nicole Eramo, the dean of students at the university, when the two never met each other. The false quoting could have been prevented since the two never met but Sabrina felt that she could quote Eramo based on the evidence that Jackie gave her. This article that Sabrina Ederly wrote was meant to help those who felt that they had no where to turn when they were raped but instead do to the failure of journalism it actually had the opposite
The documentary, The Hunting Ground by Kirby Dick, was created specifically to spread awareness of the vast problem of sexual assault on college campuses and to attempt to show that the dilemma needs to be solved. The creator wants the viewer to know that the dilemma of these attacks that universities tried to hide in the dark is finally being given the spotlight they deserve. The spark of this idea for this documentary was the many stories of survivors across the nation from many universities, specifically the story of Annie and Andrea who helped other survivors get the justice they deserve. The film is intended for anyone who is unaware of the frequent and nationwide problem of sexual assault, specifically girls because sexual assault is
4 year old Maddy Jackson channeled her best impression of Dolly Parton, an american singer-songwriter as well as an actress. The only issue is, she was dressed up in a hot pink suit, complete with fake breasts and padded buttocks. Innocent and not knowing much on the message being sent across to viewers, Maddy Jackson smiles and happily puts on the dress made by her mother. “I want to show the judges how beautiful I am,” said Maddy on the popular hit reality TV show, Toddlers & Tiaras. Lindsay Jackson sees no problem dressing her 4 year old up as an enhancement to improve the chance of winning the pageant.
Genre Piece 3- Newspaper A rape case resulting in a cold hit is described in the newspaper. In it a woman named Jenny Jones was sexually assaulted 20 years ago and has never received justice until now. Her rape was a cold hit along with several other victims. Jones’s rape case had gone cold because her rape kit had been left to gather dust and was deemed no longer recent enough to bother with.
The first thing colleges can do is develop and give every student an official, written policy statement about sexual misconduct. Every student should be handed the official document, and then it should be explained in detail. Next, the college should establish a network of services like emergency rooms or policeman on campus at all times. This should be done because if the crime can’t be stopped, at least there should be someone to help the victim right away. The police should be there to prevent the crime or to punish the assailant after.