| Blog and Media Roundup - Saturday, March 15, 2014; News Roundup | |
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| abb | Mar 15 2014, 05:05 AM Post #1 |
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Friday, Mar 14, 2014 01:21 PM CST Activists demand reform after Dartmouth student publishes “rape guide” Nearly 50,000 activists have called on Dartmouth to take immediate action to "curb the sexual assault crisis" Katie Mcdonough A student at Dartmouth College who says she was sexually assaulted on campus last month has inspired nearly 50,000 activists to call on university officials to “take action immediately to curb the sexual assault crisis” on campus. The student said she was raped at a fraternity party weeks after a a student-affiliated website published a “rape guide” providing her name and a series of “tips” encouraging students to assault her. The incident inspired the feminist advocacy group UltraViolet to start a petition demanding accountability from the Dartmouth administration, and the issue has generated an outpouring of support and demands for change from across the country. “Student groups have asked the school to list expulsion as the punishment for rape in the student handbook and to block access to the ‘rape guide’ website on campus. But school authorities haven’t taken any of these recommendations seriously,” the petition states. “Usually, stories like this get little attention from the news media. But if all of us speak up, Dartmouth won’t be able to hide.” As Tara Culp-Ressler at ThinkProgress notes, Dartmouth is currently under federal investigation for alleged Title IX violations, and students have also filed a Clery Act complaint stating that school officials have failed to properly report sexual assault and hazing incidents on campus. UltraViolet campaign Director Karin Roland told ThinkProgress that she hopes the public outcry will lead to genuine reform. “Dartmouth has had a problem with rape and sexual assault for decades. They have a long history with this issue, and student groups on campus are finally fed up and are leading the charge,” she said. “With the help of an online network of members at Ultraviolet to capture the grassroots outrage, we can really make change on this right now.” She also said that online advocacy has helped the movement to combat sexual violence — on campus and beyond — reach a tipping point. “Women are really fed up with rape being excused. I think that’s true on campuses, I think that’s true in our justice system, I think that’s true at the high school level, and I think that’s just becoming true across the country,” Roland explained. “The ability to connect over online networks has really empowered women to stand up and do something. If you look at everything from the reaction to Todd Akin’s legitimate rape comment, to Steubenville, to Dartmouth, you can see that women aren’t putting up with it anymore.” advertisement The outcry from activists across the country has helped keep Dartmouth in the headlines, but much of the work is coming from student activists and faculty members from the Dartmouth community. An editorial from Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Giavanna Munafo called on campus officials to institute policies that directly addressed sexual assault on campus. “Dartmouth has harnessed a great many resources in recent months to combat sexual assault, and this is, indeed, a good thing. But it is not enough,” she wrote. “No bystander training program, no committee, no first-responder training or added staff positions will stop rape or transform a culture that accepts and even promotes it.” Dartmouth officials have responded to the petition by pointing out that the student responsible for the “rape guide” is currently facing disciplinary action, and it committed to making the Dartmouth community “better and safer.” Dartmouth is just one of the 41 colleges and universities under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for potential violations of Title IX. Katie McDonough is an assistant editor for Salon, focusing on lifestyle. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com. |
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| abb | Mar 15 2014, 05:07 AM Post #2 |
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Inquiry needed over Durham PD’s informant payments March 14, 2014 The Durham boom has been something to behold, from the American Tobacco Campus to the ever-expanding reputation of Duke University in the City of Medicine to the Durham Performing Arts Center, drawing big shows and big performers and big audiences from all over. So why can’t a city with so much going for it get the police department right? Here we go again. Now a coalition examining drug law enforcement and punishment has offered documents it says support its contention that there is racial profiling in the Durham Police Department’s drug enforcement unit. In the cases examined by the coalition, called Foster Alternative Drug Enforcement or FADE, all suspects were black or Hispanic. An attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Ian Mance, says the documents indicate that $300 bonuses were paid to informants for convictions and testimony. Mance says the documents show that informants made deals with officers that “were contingent on the effectiveness of their cooperation in securing a conviction. If someone active in your case had a financial interest in seeing you go to jail, wouldn’t you want to know about it?” A defense attorney, David Hall, said a bonus based on conviction could influence testimony, something a defendant would need to know in making his or her case. But if the defendant doesn’t know there’s a “conviction bonus” on the line, that defendant might just cop a plea and his or her lawyer wouldn’t cross-examine the witness who got the bonus. FADE says, however, that the Durham district attorney’s office didn’t know about the money paid to confidential informants. Indeed, a Durham assistant DA said if the office knew about it, it would have provided the information to the defendants in the discovery stage of trial. The Durham police, not surprisingly, deny the accusations. The department issued a statement saying it doesn’t pay for convictions, only for “cooperation through case completion.” But the same statement said department lawyers will be talking to the district attorney about how payments are handled. This is possibly a big problem for the Durham police. If they’ve used payments and haven’t told the district attorney’s office about it when they should have, how many cases could be involved? Durham residents couldn’t be blamed for demanding that their city council call for an independent investigation of this and other issues with the police department. In recent years, there have been accusations of brutality, of profiling. There was the Jesus Huerta case in which a teenager in custody died in the back of a patrol car with his hands cuffed behind him. Police said he was hiding a pistol he used to shoot himself. And Chief Jose Lopez has done an extremely poor job of defending his department when it has come under fire. He is a public official but seems reticent to speak out. That doesn’t compute. This department needs an independent investigation – and a tough one. Only then can confidence, now at a low ebb, be restored. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/14/3702839/inquiry-needed-over-durham-pds.html#storylink=cpy |
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| abb | Mar 15 2014, 05:14 AM Post #3 |
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http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=37869 No. 4 Duke Hosts No. 5 North Carolina in ACC Showdown No. 4 Duke hosts No. 6 North Carolina this Saturday, March 15 in a 2:00 p.m. match at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C. The game will be televised on ESPNU. Duke racked up 20 goals in a midweek 20-9 victory over second-year program Marquette. The Blue Devils are 5-2 and 0-1 in ACC play. North Carolina is 5-1 and is coming off a 20-4 win over Bucknell Tuesday. The Series History • Duke and North Carolina are meeting for the 70th time with UNC leading the series 39-30 • The Blue Devils have won 16 of the past 18 meetings and are 13-2 under John Danowski • North Carolina last defeated Duke in the regular season March 10, 2010 in Durham • The Tar Heels went 30-1 against Duke from 1968-1995 Duke and UNC by the Numbers 4 – Wins shy of reaching win No. 500 for the Duke men's lacrosse program 8 – Assists needed by Jordan Wolf to become the fourth player in Duke history and 14th in ACC history to amass 100 career goals and 100 career assists 18-3 – John Danowski's career record against North Carolina, including 13-2 at Duke 35 – Combined goals in the most recent Duke and North Carolina game, an 18-17 UNC victory 2.25 - Average margin of victory in the past four meetings between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels, compared to 5.0 in the four before that 25.3 – Points per game for the Tar Heels, tops in Division I lacrosse 342 – Career ground balls by senior Brendan Fowler, third among active players and just 58 shy of becoming the first Blue Devil with 400 GBs 4.43 – Points per game for senior Jordan Wolf, second in the ACC and 14th nationally 4 – Games for Duke in the past 14 days - Maryland (March 1), Loyola (March 9), Marquette (March 11), North Carolina (March 15) 10 – Of the 69 games in the Duke - UNC rivalry decided by one goal with the Tar Heels winning six to Duke's four Scouting North Carolina Ranked fourth in the coaches poll and fifth in the Inside Lacrosse media poll, North Carolina enters the ACC rivalry game with a 5-1 overall record and 0-1 mark in conference play ... The Tar Heels are coming off of a 20-4 victory over Bucknell Tuesday ... Joey Sankey headlines the offense with 14 goals and 26 points overall, while Jimmy Bitter has 11 goals in his five outings ... Pat Foster and Chad Tutton also own double-digit goals totals with 12 and 11, respectively ... At the X Stephen Kelly and Frankie Kelly are splitting duties ... Stephen is 48-fo-76 (.632) and 34 ground balls, while Frankie is 31 of 58 (.534) with 13 GBs ... Kieran Burke anchors the defense with an impressive 6.75 goals against average and a .583 save percentage ... North Carolina has given up 10-plus goals twice - an 11-10 loss to Notre Dame and 13-11 victory over Princeton ... The sixth-ranked Blue Devils will be the highest ranked opponent North Carolina will have faced in 2014. About The Blue Devils Duke racked up 20 goals in a 20-4 victory over Marquette Tuesday night to improve to 5-2 overall and snap a two-game losing streak ... The Blue Devils' two losses came against the No. 2 and No. 5 teams ... Jordan Wolf spearheads Duke's attack with 19 goals and 12 assists for 31 points ... Josh Dionne has contributed 16 goals, while Deemer Class and Case Matheis have nine apiece ... Brendan Fowler has been outstanding at the X, winning 64 percent (98 of 153) of his draws and picking up 60 ground balls ... Casey Carroll leads the close defense with 14 caused turnovers and 24 ground balls, while Chris Hipps is a defensive force around the crease ... Luke Aaron has played the majority of minutes in goal and sports an 8.65 goals against average and a .558 save percentage ... Kyle Turri and Aaron split duties against Marquette with both making three saves. Last Time They Met North Carolina outscored Duke 9-4 in the second quarter and led by as many as nine, 15-6, before the Blue Devils stormed back to take a 17-16 lead midway through the fourth ... North Carolina's Jimmy Bitter and Marcus Holman notched the game's final two goals to lift the Tar Heels to the 18-17 victory en route to the ACC title ... Brendan Fowler won 25 of 38 faceoffs and Jordan Wolf had five goals in the come-from-behind effort. A Win Over North Carolina Would • Make Duke 201-124 in the month of March • Give head coach John Danowski his 336th career victory and 117th at Duke • Be the program's 497th victory • Be Duke's 140th win since 2005 • Make Duke 1-1 in ACC play • Be the Blue Devils' second win over a top-five foe Duke in the Month of March Duke is 200-124 all time in the month of March and an impressive 43-11 since 2007 ... Seven of Duke's 11 losses in March have come against Maryland (4) and Loyola (3). Home Sweet Home Duke has fared well at home under head coach John Danowski ... The Blue Devils are 73-9 at home since 2007 ... This year's group of seniors are 34-4 all-time at Koskinen, including a 9-0 mark in 2012 ... Duke's last home loss came March 2, 2013 against Maryland ... Since 2007, the Blue Devils are 3-1 at home against North Carolina. Blue Devils vs. North Carolina Sixteen current Blue Devils have played in at least one game against North Carolina and eight own at least one point against the Tar Heels during their careers ... Jordan Wolf is averaging four points per game against North Carolina, while both Christian Walsh and Josh Dionne are averaging two goals per game in their five outings ... Brendan Fowler sports a .672 win percentage at the X and 28 ground ball |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 15 2014, 07:51 AM Post #4 |
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How about a federal monitor? (Oops! Sorry...) |
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