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(04/21/15 2:53am)
In a piece in The New Republic, Bryce Covert anticipates that interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao’s judicially unsuccessful gender discrimination lawsuit — waged against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — may still constitute an opportunity to take a step forward in mitigating gender discrimination in the United States. In her piece, Covert calls for our attention to the intricacies of the problem of hidden discrimination in the workplace as contrasted to the overt discrimination we often believe constitutes the main problem, a situation exemplifying a broader problem that exists even among progress-seekers today.
(04/08/15 2:04am)
Most of the articles I read about Ellen Pao’s case — both leading up to the trial and after it — did not have any mention of her racial identity, and the rest tiptoed around the subject. I think the fact that she is Asian-American is inseparable from her gender when considering the discrimination she alleged to have faced at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
(04/02/15 4:05am)
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(03/05/15 5:43am)
A former ultrasound technician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is suing the University Board of Trustees for alleged medical leave discrimination. Sahar Hyseni says the discrimination is related to sexual harassment claims and subsequent mental health implications.
(02/25/15 5:34am)
In your “Open Letter”of last week, you set aside your own political disagreements to denigrate policies that could lead to safety and educational equality. By conflating the extensive procedural protections rightly afforded to criminal defendants with “fundamental fairness” in the context of a school disciplinary proceeding, your letter perpetuates the harmful myth that survivors of sexual violence should be disbelieved, silenced and denied non-criminal relief unless they seek and obtain criminal conviction of their assailant.
(02/25/15 6:29am)
On Feb. 18, nearly one-third of the Law School’s tenure or tenure-track faculty published an open letter criticizing the new sexual violence investigative procedures instituted by the University on Feb. 1. The letter argues that the new policy does not provide due process and leaves students accused of sexual misconduct at risk of being found wrongfully responsible.
(02/22/15 12:31am)
Last week, Yale's chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was banned from campus until August 2016 due to a violation of sexual misconduct policies, but the sanctions may not be as bad as they appear.
(02/19/15 6:54am)
Yesterday evening, Penn alumna Feminista Jones spoke at the Kelly Writers House’s Feminism/s series. Feminista is a social worker, black feminist and community activist. She has over 44,000 followers on Twitter and is responsible for creating hashtags that sparked global attention like #YouOkSis to address street harassment and the National Moment of Silence #NMOS14 to address issues of police brutality.
(02/18/15 6:19am)
Penn’s mental health task force recommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all.
(02/15/15 8:03pm)
In Barnard's annual campus climate survey, 20 percent of respondents said they experienced sexual assault in some form.
(02/08/15 11:56pm)
A couple of Penn's peer institutions are adding to their sexual assault education programs.
(01/27/15 1:43am)
Penn’s email announcement on Jan. 26 of a newly hired sexual violence investigative officer comes on the heels of its recent decision to participate in a national survey on sexual assault and harassment on campus.
(01/20/15 3:27am)
In response to President Amy Gutmann’s participation in the Student Labor Action Project’s (SLAP) and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation at University of Pennsylvania’s (SOUL) die-in at Gutmann’s holiday party this past December, Eric J. Rohrback, president of the Penn Police Association (PPA), published a guest column that articulated his vehement opposition to the peaceful protest.
(12/31/14 5:46am)
Harvard Law School and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights reached a resolution agreement on Tuesday after the Law School was found in violation of Title IX. Specifically, Harvard Law School had been in violation for its response to sexual harassment and sexual assault.
(12/09/14 4:58am)
P rivilege is a word I don’t like using. Especially at a place like Penn where many of us are “privileged” in some way or another. I have too often seen it break down to a contest: who has the most qualities that society has deemed secondary, be it race, gender, ability, sexual orientation or socioeconomic class.
(12/08/14 8:01am)
The 5B — the five different umbrella coalitions which represent minority groups on campus — recently held elections for their new executive boards. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the chair of each group to ask them what's on their agenda for minority students next year. The interviews have been edited for clarity and space.
(12/09/14 2:45pm)
Despite national pressure for universities to be more transparent about how they handle sexual assault on campus, Penn remains firm in its decision not to detail how it punishes perpetrators of sexual misconduct.
(11/25/14 7:33am)
Penn will participate in the Association of American Universities’ sexual assault climate survey when it is released in April 2015, according to President Amy Gutmann.
(11/19/14 9:53am)
Fifteen Title IX complaints have been filed against Penn since 2002, although federal officials did not find against the University in any of the cases, according to recently released data.
(11/18/14 8:00am)
The Association of American Universities, of which President Amy Gutmann is chair, announced on Friday that it will conduct a sexual assault climate survey of its members in April 2015.
