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-22 posts tagged "sexual violence"
Margaret Hynds | Thursday, March 3, 2016
The United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) said Tuesday it had opened an investigation Feb. 19 into the University’s handling of a sexual assault case last spring. The office also has four open investigations into the University for its handling of sexual harassment cases as far back as September 2013. In
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The University of Notre Dame is under investigation by the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for possible Title IX violations pertaining to the University’s handling of sexual violence cases, University spokesman Dennis Brown said in an email Monday evening. The OCR said today that it had opened the investigation on
Aidan Lewis | Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Courtney Abbott, a speaker for Catharsis Productions, presented a powerful refutation of the victim shaming culture that often surrounds sexual violence accusations on Tuesday evening at Geddes Hall. In her presentation, which was sponsored by the Gender Relations Center (GRC) and titled “Beat the Blame Game,” Abbott said victim blaming is harmful because it moves the
Jack Rooney and Kathryn Marshall | Thursday, November 19, 2015
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a five-part series on sexual assault at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s story focuses on the meaning of rape culture. After several screenings on campus earlier this year, CNN will air “The Hunting Ground” for a national audience Thursday at 9 p.m. When the documentary debuted at the
Selena Ponio | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Just one day after the campus-wide launch of GreeNDot, an initiative committed to replacing violent and sexual injustices on campus with positive acts, students received an email Nov. 7 alerting them to a reported sexual assault. Students and other members of the Notre Dame community prayed for healing at the Grotto on Monday evening after this most recent
Hunter McDaniel | Monday, November 2, 2015
With all the buzz around campus this weekend surrounding Halloween and Irish football, it might have been easy to miss some pretty huge news. A student filed a lawsuit against Notre Dame on Friday for alleged sexual harassment and racial discrimination. To be honest and open before starting this column, I luckily have little to
Margaret Hynds | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
In their first of two reports to the University’s Board of Trustees, student government leaders on Oct. 15 presented a report on the current state of sexual violence at Notre Dame and how the University can further work to solve the issue. Student body president senior Bryan Ricketts said his administration chose to look at sexual violence
Timothy Bradley and Hailey Vrdolyak | Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Sexual violence has once again come to the fore as an alarming problem facing Notre Dame. But are we — the members of the Notre Dame community — willing to face the root causes of the problem? The root cause of sexual assault is in part our defective campus culture in regards to human sexuality,
Emily McConville | Wednesday, October 1, 2014
October’s Sexual Violence Awareness Month — a series of programs and events including giveaways, awareness campaigns, a panel discussion and a workshop — will focus on bystander intervention and taking action to prevent sexual violence on campus, Gender Relations Center (GRC) Director Christine Caron Gebhardt said. Gebhardt said the GRC planned the month’s programs based
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, September 26, 2014
It is happening even if we don’t want to admit it: crude sexual harassment on the @UNDCrushes Twitter account, inappropriate advances by a classmate on a cab ride back to campus and the aftermath of violence that cannot be forgotten. These are some of the experiences that many of us have encountered. As we progress