Mike Tyson 2.0 and the limited impact of #MeToo in sports
Eva Rinaldi/Courtesy
As sports fans, we must acknowledge the dangerous pedestal we put athletes on. Refusing to do so is simply irresponsible.
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UCPD’s annual safety report reveals increase in arson, illegal weapon possession
Trends in the data have reflected an increased number of arson, burglary, stalking, illegal weapon possession, robbery and liquor violations. The report also reflected a decrease in rape and drug abuse from 2016 to 2017.
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Why millennials are killing plays about sexual assault
Now and Again
I had never heard more people tell anecdotes of girls they knew lying about being raped than I did over the course of my work on that show.
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Dear Kobe
In his acceptance speech, Bryant took a swipe at Fox News host Laura Ingraham, saying that he was glad he did “a little bit more than” shutting up and dribbling. And I’m glad he did. I just have a note for him.
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We are survivors, and we are strong
There are thousands of women who are suffering through the same. They are your mothers, your sisters, your colleagues and your friends, fighting every day and rebuilding their lives in the aftermath just as I have had to. We are survivors, and we are strong.
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Without the privilege of stability
Community-less College
UC Berkeley transfer student Begonia Herbert was only five years old when her mother left because of her father’s physical abuse, setting a haunting precedent of familial strife.
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Sleeping with knives
Sex on Tuesday
Brandishing a steak knife against her neck, he told her his intent to slit her throat open. He pulled out a blindfold and tied it tightly around her head.
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Campus must commit to protection of sexual assault survivors
Berkeley National Organization for Women was extremely disappointed to hear that the U.S. secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, intends to rescind the Obama administration’s directive to enhance protections for sexual assault survivors on college campuses. In Secretary Devos’ statement that the current policy represents a “failed system,” she forgot to
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For the Bible tells me so
Heading west
I was 7 years old, and same-sex intercourse was still illegal.
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Child marriage laws in CA act as loopholes that allow for statutory rape
At 16 and pregnant, we returned to CA and were legally married. I was not yet able to obtain a driver’s license, but under the eyes of the law, I was a wife.
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