11/06/16 11:47pm
Last Friday, President Amy Gutmann and Vice Provost Vincent Price emailed Penn faculty, students and staff to announce the creation of a new Task Force charged with combating sexual harassment and sexual violence.
In the email sent out at 5:22 p.m. on Friday night, Gutmann and Price explained that the goal of the entity is to focus “collective attention and understanding on how best to promote a respectful and healthy campus environment and to ensure that students and their parents and guardians are aware of the high-risk behaviors – many of which violate University policy and would result in sanctions for a recognized student organization – engaged in by these groups.”
While we commend university efforts, we believe that creating yet another task force, this time to target off-campus organizations, is not the sole answer.
12/07/14 11:33pm
This is white privilege: being outraged, but not terrified. And I know that if I opt to remain unaware and uneducated for fear of standing up or saying something stupid, I’m a part of the problem.
