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Seven women are suing Dartmouth College for neglecting to investigate sexual misconduct complaints against three former professors. The lawsuit, which was filed on Nov. 15, stated that the professors sexually assaulted, harassed, and discriminated against the women while they were graduate students.
Several weeks ago, the University of Pennsylvania announced proposed changes to the process for reporting issues of sexual harassment in our community. One change is to designate a single staff member to receive and respond to allegations of sexual harassment from across campus. We are pleased that Penn is finally responding to urgent critiques raised by Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, and others: When deans, department chairs, and peers of the accused are given the power to investigate sexual misconduct, allegations are often swept under the rug. When students allege misconduct by their employers, supervisors, or instructors, there are massive power imbalances that the University has not been mitigating. We hope this policy will be a step in the direction of changing that. However, there are several things that continue to concern us, as members of GET-UP, Penn’s union of graduate workers.
On Wednesday, Executive Director of Penn's Ortner Center of Violence & Abuse in Relationships Susan Sorenson spoke to attendees on the past and future of how universities address sexual assault.
This year, Penn's Office of the Ombuds’ annual report found a significant increase in the number of people who came to the office to discuss instances of sexual harassment and violence. In the past several years, the ombuds' report has consistently reported that no student or faculty member reported instances of sexual harassment or violence. This year, the number jumped to five complaints.
Twenty-eight years after her last appearance in Irvine Auditorium, Anita Hill told a packed audience of mostly women that the Brett Kavanaugh hearings were a “disservice to the American public” and "really a tragedy."
Joe Biden is an extremely popular Penn figure. He’s a Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, whatever that means. Every few weeks he is on campus giving inspirational talks with world leaders and offering his valued opinion on the state of current politics. Whenever he’s on Locust Walk, he’s flocked by hundreds of students all wanting to get a quick glimpse or a selfie with the former Vice President.
New research shows that today’s generation of young adults are drinking less alcohol than they did decades ago.
Roxie* is a 34-year-old, divorced mother of two. Originally from Maryland, she moved to Philadelphia on a whim a few months ago, and quickly fell in love with the city. She has a job in the medical industry, and enjoys taking detours to South Philly and Chinatown on the weekends. The cost of living in Philadelphia can be brutal. Luckily, Roxie has a lucrative side-gig: She makes $2,000 per month as a prostitute.
Penn may soon have a centralized office responsible for handling sexual misconduct complaints across the University.
Members of fraternities at Penn say they do not expect to be affected by the hard liquor ban imposed by the North-American Interfraternity Conference, despite being among the campuses where the majority of fraternities must comply with the new policy.
Talk of the "Penn bubble" and lack of student involvement in the surrounding community has long been a hot topic among students and administrators alike. Penn's Office of Student Conduct, however, has a plan to tackle the issue.
For Democrats nationwide, the midterm elections on Nov. 6 represent an opportunity to turn the House of Representatives blue for the first time since 2010. Closer to campus, Penn Democrats hopes to play a role in the fight for the House, planning canvassing events for candidates in tight congressional races across Pennsylvania.
When she was named the new Graduate and Professional Student Assembly president in May, Haley Pilgrim had a vision for GAPSA, one that she hoped would improve the lives of graduate students at Penn. As she begins her year serving as the first black female leader of GAPSA, Pilgrim plans to embark on campaigns targeting mental health, sexual harassment, and civic engagement.
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing new sexual misconduct policies for college campuses that would expand the rights of the accused, allow for cross-examination during mediation, and reverse other Obama-era regulations that hold universities more responsible for sexual misconduct. Penn is no exception.
Following a half year of collaboration between graduate and professional students and administrators, Penn unveiled its first University-wide online bias incident reporting form on Tuesday afternoon.
Against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, scandals at higher education institutions over the past year have led to a series of high-profile resignations.
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Penn is many things. It’s a large research university with twelve separate schools encompassing strong graduate and undergraduate programs in diverse disciplines ranging from business to veterinary science. That intellectual and institutional diversity is part of what makes Penn a great university — it brings resources and opportunities that would be impossible to find at a smaller school. Despite the size of Penn as an institution, it’s easy to forget that Penn is also a school, one with over 24,000 students, including 10,000 undergraduates. Penn’s first responsibility should be its students. The core mission of the university and the administration should be to foster a safe and nurturing environment for students to conduct their scholarship.
Brown University broke rank with other Ivy League and private universities last month by allowing graduate students to organize an election to vote on forming a union.
It has been close to two weeks since The Daily Pennsylvanian published an investigative article detailing a sexual relationship between former Undergraduate Chair of the Psychology Department Robert Kurzban and a female undergraduate student in his class. The alleged relationship clearly violated University policy and undermined Penn’s recent efforts to counter sexual misconduct on campus. Despite this, the administration has provided little in the way of a response.
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