ThinkProgress 1.16.17 | By Perpetual Baffour and Ulrich Boser Betsy DeVos’ family foundation has long donated to organizations that side with students accused of rape — not their victims. Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Michigan billionaire and philanthropist Betsy DeVos, has kept fairly silent on
The Register-Guard 12.23.16 | Jack Moran The University of Oregon may appeal a judge’s ruling that overturned a one-year suspension the UO imposed on a male student after university officials concluded he had sexually assaulted a young woman in his dorm room in
New York Times 12.29.16 | By JOE DRAPE and MARC TRACY At Stanford University, in a conference room above a Starbucks and other shops, a panel of five gathered in June 2015 to decide whether a sexual assault had occurred on campus. Several months later, after a
The Debrief 12.27.16 | Kate Lloyd The Debrief: For every step forward we take in understanding consent and sexual assault, we take two steps back. But how much actually changed this year? ‘Grab them by the pussy’: five words which will, depressingly, forever
Huffington Post 12.17.16 | Travis Waldron Eric W. Kaler said the school’s values were more important than the team’s scheduled Holiday Bowl appearance The University of Minnesota president and athletic director on Friday refused to yield to protesting football players, who walked out of
Washington Post 10.17.16 The University of Minnesota football team skipped practice for the second straight day Friday, a highly unusual case of college athletes unified in protest. The evening before, players huddled together on the field, most of them wearing their maroon jerseys
Bethesda Magazine 12.14.16 | Bethany Rogers Kelly is offering legislation to expand curriculum for sex education classes A state delegate from Montgomery County wants to require local public schools to teach students about “affirmative consent” during seventh- and 10th-grade sex education classes. The
Variety.com 12.9.16 When he was helping to choose writers for the staff of Fox’s television revival of “The Exorcist,” executive producer Jeremy Slater kept encountering the same plot point over and over. “One of my hard-and-fast rules when reading spec scripts was, the
