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After police brutally pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters at UC Davis on Saturday, almost 50,000 people signed a petition asking university chancellor Linda Katehi to resign. And students held a silent vigil to protest her press conference yesterday. Nonetheless, Katehi told George Stephanopoulos today that she wouldn't resign, saying, "I really feel confident that at this point the university needs me." To his credit, Stephanopoulos pushes back hard on Katehi's assertion that the university called in the police to protect students' safety. It's hard to see how protesters peacefully sitting on the ground were threatening anyone, and pepper-spraying a student in the face is hardly a way of protecting them. Katehi appears to make a distinction between protesting students and those "who really want to learn" — but it looks like all UC Davis students have learned that even if they choose to express their views peacefully, they may be met with violence. More »
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Ten years ago, female wrestlers Arezou Mansourian, Lauren Mancuso and Christine Wing-Si sued the University of California, Davis for, they said, violating Title IX in offering equal opportunity to female athletes. Today, they got their ruling, a mixed one in which both sides claimed victory. More »
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A group of UC Davis athletes are protesting their school's decision to cut several sports teams — they claim administrators chose to spruce up their own offices instead. More »
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A female student had to miss class at UC Davis's veterinary school in order to give birth. So her professor allowed the class to vote on her grade. More »
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The most commonly used statistics about sexual assault and American college women show that 25% of female college students will be sexually assaulted; U.C. Davis professor of communication Michael Motley believes that at least some unwanted sexual contact is due to misunderstanding on the part of men — which he calls "faulty male introspection" — and unintentionally vague statements on the part of women. Motley said in a press release, "When she says, 'It's getting late,' he may hear, 'So let's skip the preliminaries.'" Motley performed an experiment where he gave 30 female and 60 male Davis students a questionnaire asking them to interpret "16 common female resistance messages." And his results may surprise you. More »
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