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Shaming sexual assault victims into silence is not the answer

On: November 28, 2018

By: Olivia Vergin, overgin@cord.edu It seems as though a new headline about sexual assault is in the news every week. With the recent emergence of the #MeToo movement, rape victims are getting the chance to come forward and tell their stories. Most recently, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused BrettContinue Reading

The harassment double standard

By: Contributing Writer

On: January 31, 2013

In: Columns, Letters, Opinions

As someone who has every plan of going into the field of education, I would like to point out a recent discouraging bit of news. A thirteen-year-old student in Missouri went to her mother with complaints of sexual harassment while at school. The mother, enraged, called the school district toContinue Reading