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Three weeks ago, a UC Berkeley student wrote an anonymous post on Facebook alleging that they were sexually assaulted at a retreat for a campus tech club, sparking a larger conversation about sexual assault and consent in campus coding and engineering groups.
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Sharon Inkelas, special faculty adviser to the chancellor on sexual violence and sexual harassment, or SVSH, talked at an open forum hosted by the ASUC External and University Affairs Committee, or ExComm, on Monday.
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The My Voice survey was administered to the greater campus community last spring to aggregate data on student, staff and faculty experiences regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment, or SVSH, issues. The survey was the first of its kind because of the diversity of its 15,000 participants. The Action Planning
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Meaningful change is inherently slow. When discussing sexual violence and sexual harassment, commonly referred to as SVSH, the issue is further complicated by legal and cultural barriers. Culturally, survivors are often not believed or taken seriously, and those who do report often see their assaulters face zero to minor legal
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Our campus community deserves an environment free of sexual violence and sexual harassment, or SVSH. As a former member of the Committee on Privilege and Tenure, or P&T, which hears SVSH cases involving faculty members, I encourage my fellow faculty to join me in taking a fresh look at our
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At a time when sexual misconduct is in the national spotlight, it is critical that UC Berkeley makes considerations specific to graduate students when addressing these issues.
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As many of the 113 investigations detailed in UC documents released Tuesday unfolded, the University Office of the President pushed for systemwide changes to UC sexual misconduct policy.
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