In the November 19 Rolling Stone article about campus rape at the University of Virginia that sparked rampant discussion about sexual violence, journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes that survivors of rape often stay silent because reactions of “dismissal, downgrading and doubt is a common theme UVA rape survivors hear, including from women.” But in the past few days, various doubts have been raised about possible holes in Erdely’s reporting.
UVa is one of 86 schools being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX sexual assault violations. UVa’s review was sparked by one specific lawsuit, but it also has been under an additional, broader Title IX compliance review since 2011.
Students and staff at the University of Virginia are hoping words will turn into action regarding sexual misconduct on grounds. Tuesday night, they met at Garrett Hall at UVA to start hashing out what they can do in response to the Rolling Stone article criticizing an alleged rape culture at UVA.
(By Larry J. Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics and University Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia) Think of the billions the parties must raise to elect a president in 2016. Consider the millions of paid and volunteer man-hours that will be devoted to this enterprise. The White House is the center of the partisan political universe, and Democrats and Republicans alike measure success or failure by their ability to win and hold the presidency. Instead, maybe they ought to hope they lose.
Rising frustration with Washington and conservative electoral victories across much of the U.S. are feeding a movement in favor of something America hasn’t done in 227 years: Hold a convention to rewrite the Constitution. Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, wants a convention to adopt sweeping changes, including a single six-year presidential term and concomitant House and Senate terms, to create more of a parliamentary system.
It is becoming clear that the native form for data is alive, not dead. Online, interactive charts will become the norm, nudging aside paper-based, static ones. One of the most impressive interactive works in the book, “The Best American Infographics 2014,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October, is the racial composition of America by Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia.
For many people, the defiant act of jaywalking alone put Michael Brown and his friend in the wrong. But given the tragic outcome — Wilson killing Brown after a reported altercation between the two — it’s worth unpacking why walking in the street was ever seen as a crime or a threat at all. It raises the question: Just who do these streets belong to, anyway? Peter Norton, a history professor at the University of Virginia, also wrote about how jaywalking came about in his book, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.
The University of Virginia and Georgia Tech Research Institute have jointly demonstrated a cyber defense system for unmanned aerial vehicles in live flight scenarios. “Our research focuses on providing additional security by employing an on-board secure monitoring subsystem to detect illogical behaviors relative to the expected profile of a system’s performance,” said Barry Horowitz, project leader and professor of systems and information engineering at UVA.
Touching one’s toes or moving the head in a circle feels positively blissful to most healthy adults. But the benefits of stretching are much argued in the halls of kinesiology departments and fitness centers across the country. One professor of sports medicine at the University of Virginia, Jay Hertel, explains the upside of a full range of motion and why sometimes feeling good is enough reason to get those shoulders rolling.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine received a $21.4 million grant to launch a major clinical trial to determine the best medication for treating people who experience prolonged, potentially life-threatening seizures called status epilepticus. The grant is funded by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on Monday acknowledged the role that excessive drinking and a social scene dominated by parties at fraternity houses have played in sexual violence on campus.
Virginia lawmakers are calling for mandatory reporting of campus sexual assaults to law enforcement agencies after allegations of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, under fire for the institution’s handling of sexual assault allegations, spoke briefly to students Monday afternoon, saying, “Our university has been placed at the center of this crisis. We will not shrink from it. We will lead.”
The writer of a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has said that she was unable to contact or interview the men who supposedly perpetrated the crime.
The president of the University of Virginia canceled a speech to the National Press Club in favor of speaking to students Monday. She pledged a series of changes to combat sexual assault on campus – among them, forcing fraternities to operate under new rules and pressing police to arrest sellers of date rape drugs.
A secret society at the University of Virginia placed banners as well as a letter on grounds Monday detailing how the school should change its culture.
No school sends more students to the University of Virginia than the one in Fairfax County named after the university’s founder. Sixty-five freshmen in Charlottesville this fall come from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the top magnet schools in the country. Suddenly, some TJ seniors who had been strongly considering U-Va. are wondering about that choice, as recent allegations about a brutal gang rape at a fraternity there have caused turmoil, just weeks after U-Va. sophomore Hannah Graham was found dead after vanishing from a Char...
Student groups at the University of Virginia are demonstrating their outrage over the decision of a Missouri grand jury to not indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager.
The University of Virginia will re-examine policies that let victims decide whether sexual violence will be prosecuted and other students determine whether an assault has occurred, U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan said Monday.
The PEN American Center, an organization that defends freedom of expression world-wide, asked 61 of America’s most famous writers and 14 artists to annotate first editions of their classic works. The results will be auctioned at Christie’s on Tuesday evening as a benefit for PEN. On this side of the pond, U.Va. professor James Salter is one of the authors whose annotations are said to be the most extensive. His contribution to the sale is his first novel, “The Hunters,” based on his experience as a fighter pilot during the Korean War.