A student at Brown University alleges that after she was strangled and sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate, her attacker was suspended for just a year and will return to class in the fall.
Sorority life teaches young ladies many important lessons throughout their college tenures: sisterhood, service, and, if this graduation from one nutty sorority girl is to be believed, dick sucking.
Following a school-requested investigation, the University of Missouri has acknowledged that they failed to properly address evidence indicating student Sasha Menu Corey had been sexually assaulted by a fellow student, an incident that appears to have led in part to her eventual suicide.
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On March 14, 2014, The Los Angeles Times issued a retraction of an article in which reporter Jason Felch stated that Occidental College failed to disclose 27 sexual assaults in its 2012 Annual Security Report (ASR). The retraction states that "Occidental representatives approached the Times early this month to seek a…
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Carolyn Chernoff, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College. This summer, she will be the instructor of a two-and-a-half-hour, three-day-a week class called "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media."
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Georgia Tech has disbanded its Phi Kappa Tau fraternity after an investigation showed — shockingly! — that the fraternity best known for circulating an email from its leadership calling women "rapebait" was, in fact, incredibly rapey.
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Long Island high school student Kwasi Enin has achieved the impossible: He got into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale AND Penn.
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A college student at the University of Illinois at Chicago was sexually assaulted on Monday.
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Teen Vogue has published an interesting article on what it's like to be poor and attend some of the most prestigious (and thus expensive and dominated-by-the-wealthy) schools in the country.
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Ladies! Stop clicking on all that crap on Bluefly! Did you know that know that if you took five seconds to stop ogling shoes and purses you could just as easily be clicking around and learning stuff? Of course you didn't! You're just a lady, silly.
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Well, it's come to this: Skidmore College will be offering a course this summer on "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media."
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In a letter published in the Daily Princetonian Tuesday, over 200 Princeton University professors derided Susan Patton's recent comments about sexual assault while expressing their support for students on the Princeton campus who have been sexually assaulted themselves.
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A new program at Tufts University plans to help students who plan on attending the school have that "gap year" experience, including volunteering before starting on their degrees. Starting this upcoming fall, the 4+1 program will provide funding for traveling including airfare and travel visas (the bane of my existence), …
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Well, well, well: Turns out that female students are more resilient than their male counterparts. Resilience, in this case, is that mental toughness sports commentators are always talking about — but instead of tackling football players, the ladies are sacking these mid-terms. Holler.
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Marry Smart, the retrograde pile of garbage that the 'Princeton Mom' has sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard and called a book, drops today. That means Susan Patton is currently making the media rounds, questioning the notion of date rape and insisting that she is "not a provocative person."
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A group of 31 students and alumni — ranging from the class of 1975 to the class of 2016 —have filed a federal complaint against UC Berkeley, alleging that the school handled their reports of sexual assault and harassment with "deliberate indifference."
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You might want to reassess those Sallie Mae debt projections, kids, because the cost of state school tuition is rising. Again. Why? Several reasons, but we can start with the politicians who have turned their attention to other financial woes like prisons and elementary schools. And then there are those constituents…
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Why do we go to college? Is it to learn a skill? Is to learn how to think? Is it to meet a future mate? Is it to become a well-rounded person? Get shit-faced? Or is it purely a means to an end — a place to make valuable networking connections and net higher lifetime earnings? On some level it's all that stuff, and yet…
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Atlantic contributor Caitlin Flanagan has a long history of turning out short-sighted treatises on hookup culture and the sexualization of young woman and blah blah blah. But her latest piece for the magazine, a 14,000 word behemoth, manages to take on a different culture – frat culture – while insulting and ignoring…
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It's February 2014. Thanks to a number of survivor-activists, the media has thrust the issue of sexual assault on college campuses into the mainstream. The Department of Education has received federal complaints against, investigated, and/or is in the process of investigating numerous American colleges and…
