Article here. Excerpt:

'A study regularly touted by numerous media outlets (not to mention the White House) says 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted on her college campus before she graduates.

Let me say that another way.

If you believe this finding and you’re a female college freshman, then you must accept that you have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted in the next four to six years.

Twenty percent.

That’s greater than the likelihood of a woman being diagnosed with breast cancer (1 in 8) in her lifetime.

And if true, it would make college campuses one of the most dangerous places for women in America today.'

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'A malnourished two-year-old boy has been rescued by Chilean police after he was found being breastfed by a neighbour’s dog.

A witness saw the dog, called Reina, feeding the boy on Thursday at a mechanic’s workshop in the desert port of Arica, more than 1,000 miles north of the capital, Santiago, according to police.

The boy was also suffering from a skin infection and lice infestation, according to 24Hora.cl.

Captain Diego Gajardo told The Associated Press that the child was released from hospital on Friday and is under the care of child welfare authorities.

He added that the mother of the child arrived at the hospital drunk, but that she has not been placed under arrest because there had been no physical harm to the boy.'

Hearing notice here. Excerpt:

'Sep 10, 2015

The hearing is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. in room 2261 Rayburn H.O.B. Witnesses to be announced.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The strict criteria for publicly-funded circumcisions has seen fewer procedures carried out in the Waikato.

Over the last four-and-a-half years, 403 males received a publicly funded circumcision, with more than half of those patients aged five years and under.

Waikato Hospital Services executive director Brett Paradine said policy does not allow paediatric surgeons to perform circumcisions for religious or cultural reasons.

"We are confident as we can be without a manual search of all records, that the circumcisions that have been done have been done for clear medical indications, often as a necessary part of other surgery."

K'aute Pasifika nurse Maiotele Lowen said circumcision is common among the Samoan community but it was more of a religious practice as opposed to a cultural practice.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For years, advocates pressing colleges to do more to prevent campus sexual assault -- including the White House -- have cited a 2007 statistic that claims one in five female students experiences a sexual assault in college.

That statistic, based on a survey of only two colleges, has been questioned for as long as it has been cited, with a particularly strong backlash emerging in the last year. But, by broadly defining sexual assault in a way similar to the 2007 study, a number of surveys at individual campuses in recent months have started to reach the same conclusion. The most recent research to bolster the statistic comes from Rutgers University at New Brunswick, which was asked by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to pilot a climate survey developed by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The university announced the results of the survey today, and provided a list of recommendations to the White House about how to better implement it.'

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'“She admitted in court to having sexual contact in 2009 with two boys who were age 10 and 12 at the time, Smith-Norton said. The sexual contact came to light in late 2014 after the boys stepped forward and talked to authorities. They told police the sexual contact began in 2005, when they were about 6 and 8 years old, according to Talent police.”

That full story is here.

Three hundred and sixty-six years in prison:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Columbia University on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a recent graduate who said it allowed a student who accused him of rape to harass him by carrying a mattress around campus in protest, even though the school had cleared him of the allegation.

In a filing in Manhattan federal court, Columbia said the discrimination lawsuit by the plaintiff, Paul Nungesser, suggested that the school had an obligation to silence his accuser, Emma Sulkowicz, from speaking publicly about sexual assault on college campuses, an issue of national concern.

Nungesser in April sued Columbia and visual arts professor Jon Kessler, who oversaw Sulkowicz’ senior thesis “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight),” in which she drew national attention by carrying a mattress around the campus in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights. Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, was also named as a defendant.

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'A new survey of Rutgers University students reinforces the idea that one in four college women will be victims of sexual assault... but only if you don't look at the study too closely. Zoom in and you'll find the same problems that plague so much research about sex crimes on college campuses, from defining violence to include rude comments to failing to differentiate between an unwanted kiss and forcible rape.

The Rutgers survey—conducted by the school's Center on Violence Against Women and Children at the request of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and the Department of Justice—was carried out last academic year at the state school's New Brunswick campus, attended by about 42,000 students. Around 10,800 students completed the online survey; the majority were undergraduates (80 percent) and women (64 percent).

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'In a state with a history of electing women to its highest offices, and on the 20th anniversary of her famous speech in Beijing, where as First Lady she declared “women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights,” Hillary Clinton defined the entire economic agenda of her 2016 campaign as a women's issue.
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“Raising the minimum wage is a women’s issue,” she said. “Holding corporations accountable when they gouge us on drug prices, pollute our environment or exploit workers are women’s issues.”

Corporations profit-sharing with their employees, college affordability, and creating a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, she added, were all women’s issues, too.'

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Also see: Hillary Clinton takes aim at rivals but has no qualms about playing gender card

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'Chaps, we are under attack. It is time to man (and I mean ‘man’) the defences. In yesterday’s Femail magazine, writer Ginny Dougary accused us of space-hogging — of taking up too much room, particularly in railway carriages.

The problem has become so common that the Oxford Dictionary now has an approved term for it: ‘Manspreading’.

Ginny described (with, it has to be said, rather brilliant gusto) how men plonk themselves down on train seats and thrust wide their beefy thighs. She was so fed up with this behaviour that she was declaring war. Her article was illustrated by a photograph of one man sitting beside three women. Whereas the ladies sat with their knees together or petitely crossed, selfish old Captain Groin had his upper legs as wide as a skier’s snowplough.

As with many gross slanders, Ginny’s article contained a grain or two of truth. Yet that picture was by no means ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Voices Against Violence, a group affiliated with the Counseling and Mental Health Center, launched a new program Thursday aiming to include male-identified individuals into the conversation of sexual and domestic violence on campus.

With it’s first event, “This is Men’s Work,” the program, MasculinUT: The Healthy Masculinities Project, hosted a panel of speakers which included Michael Messner, professor of Sociology and Gender at the University of Southern California, as well as UT faculty members and Student Government representatives.

“We intentionally pluralize masculinity because we want to explore the different facets of what it means to be a man in our world,” said Erin Burrows, outreach specialist for Voices against Violence. “One of the things we really landed on was most violence was committed by men but most men aren’t violent, so how do we fill that gap and really work with men to engage other men in this conversation?”

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'Advocates argue that the campus system is a crucial alternative to provide some form of justice for victims who may be afraid to report to law enforcement, don’t want their parents to find out, or want action taken sooner than can occur in a lengthy legal process.

“That doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be entitled to other accommodations with classes or not have to see the accused,” said Sandra Henriquez, executive director of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. “She still should have the right to have all of the support and have the campus help her to complete her education.”

A backlash is growing, however, from critics who worry that schools are supplanting the criminal justice system with unfair tribunals that run roughshod over the accused. They point to proceedings run by faculty and administrators, a lower “preponderance of the evidence” standard for finding guilt, and a lack of fundamental legal protections like the right to a lawyer.

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'Vanderbilt University’s Women’s Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have “healthy masculinity.”

The “Healthy Masculinities Week” is sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, which claims to be devoted to “Celebrating Women” while “Empowering All.”

The mission of the Women’s Center is to affirm a “space for all members of the Vanderbilt community that acknowledges and actively resists sexism, racism, homophobia, and all forms of oppression while advocating for positive social change.”
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“Healthy Masculinities Week” hopes to encourage men to “[e]xplore healthy masculinity through various lenses,” such as “American society, the gay and bisexual community, fraternities, and more.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Amy Huchthausen: Women are generally more empathetic and compassionate to people, (although not necessarily caretakers) and so they may look deeper into things when making decisions than men do. The richer experience and perspective you have, the better leader you become. Women have to navigate a different environment and that will impact their personal constitution, and that gives them a different perspective.