The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Brock Turner, who was convicted on charges of assaulting and attempting to rape a woman while he was a student at Stanford, has lost his bid for a new trial. In March 2016, Turner was found guilty of three felony counts related to his assault of a woman near a Kappa…
Though I love my job as the overseer of this high and judicious court, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been considering a career change. I’ve been playing with the idea of swapping out this seat for one in another court. A court with a jurisdiction over, say, a few members of Congress so I can one day have the joy of…
On Friday, The Guardian reported that Michele Landis Dauber, a law professor at Stanford university, was told repeatedly by the law school’s administration that she could not use screenshots of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape in promotional material for an upcoming conference on sexual assault, which she is…
In June of 2015, an unidentified woman began Stanford University’s internal investigation process after alleging she’d been raped by a football player at a fraternity house party. Though a majority of the disciplinary board twice ruled that the player committed sexual assault, he’s still on the team and she’s had to…
Michelle Karnes, a former English professor at Stanford University, has accused administrators at the prestigious California institution of retaliating against her after she reported a formal sexual harassment complaint against Stephen Hinton, a fellow professor and former dean who’d been involved in hiring her. “I…
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of a Stanford University graduate student accuses the university of ignoring multiple sexual assault allegations against one male student between 2011 and 2014. The lawsuit describes him as a “known sexual predator on campus.”
In response to the six-month sentence that Brock Turner received after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, California lawmakers have passed a bill that would effectively close the loophole that caused his sentence to be so light.
Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced Stanford rapist Brock Turner to six months in jail, and who’s been facing furious social media reprisals and two recall efforts ever since, will no longer hear criminal cases. On Thursday, the Santa Clara Superior Court announced that following a request from Persky, he will be…
Bright, shining diamond and media personality nonpareil Tyra Banks will be taking her act to Stanford Business School, co-teaching a brief class on “creating and protecting a personal brand.” Let’s hope every one of those MBA students is forced to start every session by yelling “TYRA CLASS.”
The East Bay Times is reporting that Judge Aaron Persky, who sparked outrage when he sentenced Stanford rapist Brock Turner to just six months in jail, has opted to recuse himself from the appeal proceedings of a man convicted of possessing child pornography. In the new case, he was contemplating reducing a man’s…
Brock Turner, the former Stanford student and ex-swimmer who was sentenced to a meager six months for sexual assault last week, has been banned from USA Swimming, the governing body for professional swimming in the United States, for life.
Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson were the two Swedish Ph.D. students who discovered Brock Turner raping a woman on Stanford’s Palo Alto campus in 2015. Arndt and Johnsson’s intervention led to Turner’s arrest and their testimony to his conviction.
Since California Judge Aaron Persky handed Brock Turner what many are calling a lenient sentence, there have been calls for his removal, including two petitions for his recall. Turner, an ex-Stanford student, was arrested in 2015 after he was caught raping an unconscious woman. Though he was initially charged with…
In January 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was arrested for raping an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity house. Turner, who was the subject of a very sympathetic “once-promising” Washington Post write up, was caught mid-rape by two men who happened to be riding their bikes nearby.
On Wednesday, a Palo Alto jury found ex-Stanford student Brock Turner guilty of sexual assault against a fellow student. Turner, now 20, was a member of the university swim team. And we know what that means: it’s time for someone to write a story about his “once-promising future.”
Today in people with power do the damndest things: A Stanford University Dean was forced to resign after allegedly sleeping with a professor, firing her husband (also a professor) and saddling the university with a lawsuit from that professor husband.
It's back-to-school season across America and college students are being reminded, once again, that going to a frat party doesn't mean you get to rape people.
For the first time in its 78-year history, a woman has bagged a Fields Medal, essentially the Nobel Prize for mathematics. Born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani did her doctorate at Harvard and is currently a professor at Stanford. Obviously, she is terrifyingly brilliant.
Every year, freshman at Stanford University, their high school nerdstink still clinging to their strategically selected college reinvention outfits, gather on a quad to be ushered into the prestigious school's community by polite, consent-seeking upperclassmen. You'd think the tradition — known colloquially as the…
Anyone who's ever had trouble sleeping has developed elaborate theories on how and why caffeine affects them. It's usually something along the lines of, "If I drink a cup of coffee after 11 a.m. on the third Tuesday of the month, I'll be up all night." But some new research is showing that the power caffeine holds…
