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'A iberal arts college in North Carolina is pledging to identify and potentially punish students who heckled a play about sexual assault the college forced them to attend.

"It Stops Here,” an original play produced by students at Greensboro College, was first performed last Wednesday before a crowd of students, but the performance didn’t go as planned. According to people at the play, members of the audience frequently heckled the cast and shouted sexually explicit remarks.

"Many of the boys started calling out ‘She wanted it, it’s not rape,’ and making masturbation noises,” stage manager Claire Sellers told a local news station. Sellers said the remarks were so excessive that cast members “became physically ill and vomited after the show because they were so vulgar.”

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'It doesn't seem to matter what a college does when responding to a sexual assault accusation — they are always wrong. That's according to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates colleges and universities for alleged Title IX violations.

In a recent ruling against Michigan State University, OCR determined the school had violated Title IX because it took too long — four days — to remove accused students from their dorms. The fact that the students weren't immediately evicted from campus, even though an investigation hadn't even started, was also evidence of a violation.

OCR looked at two complaints, from students identified as Student A and Student B, to determine MSU was in violation of Title IX. While OCR mostly found "insufficient evidence" to support the complaints of the two students, what the agency found the university in violation of seemed like nitpicking.'

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'Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a "Yes means Yes" bill that backers said would make California the first to bring the sexual assault training to high schools.

SB695 requires school districts to teach sexual violence prevention as part of their health curriculum if health education is required to graduate.

The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson follows legislation last year requiring all colleges receiving public funds to adopt a so-called affirmative consent standard for investigating assault allegations.

The bill would specify that students be informed about the "Yes Means Yes" law.

"By teaching our youth about assertive consent and healthy relationships, we will be building a strong foundation — strong foundation for our young men, our young women, a strong foundation for our schools, a strong foundation for our community so we can understand, so we can learn about what sexual assaults are all about," said de Leon, D-Los Angeles.'

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'A single man's fight to be recognised as the sole parent of a surrogate baby boy that he paid to have born in America has been rejected by a leading High Court judge in a unique test case.

The British man, who cannot be named, paid a US agency £8,000 - and a surrogate mother more than £20,000 - in his bid to become a father.

The unnamed one-year-old boy was conceived using the man's sperm and a donor egg and he has been recognised as the child's father in the state of Minnesota.

But that held no sway with Britain's most senior family judge, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, today in court.

Whatever the position in America, the judge said English law emphatically recognises the surrogate mother as the child's only legal parent.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 dictates that only 'two people' - effectively a couple - can be officially recognised as the parents of a surrogate baby.'

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'Millions of workers who dropped out of the job market during the last economic slump were supposed to jump back in once things turned around. But more than six years after the recession ended, the missing millions are increasingly looking like they’re gone for good.

The nation’s labor participation rate – defined as the share of the working-age population that is either working or looking for work – hasn’t budged from a 38-year-low of 62.6 percent this summer. And most experts don’t see an upswing on the way.

The reasons include the nation’s aging population, swelling ranks of people on disability and the changing nature of jobs. But one of the biggest factors has to do with men in the prime of their work lives, particularly those with less education.'

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'In a recent ranking of the states on women’s equality, Maine garnered high marks for a relatively small gender gap when it comes to college degree attainment. But these high marks are misleading: The education gap in Maine is small because too few men have college degrees.

WalletHub, which ranks states based on many different sorts of data, ranked Maine sixth in the country for gender equality based on three measures: workplace environment, education and political representation. The education ranking included two subcategories: the percentage of residents over age 25 with a bachelor’s degree or higher and math scores.

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'Thanks to an unanimous vote by the LA Unified school board yesterday, the district will become the first in California in a decade to open a girls-only traditional public school.

The approval of the the school was anti-climactic in that the board had already approved it by a vote in April, but at the time needed to still secure a waiver from the state Department of Education, which it now has.

The vote dedicates over $231,000 for the district to convert a traditional classroom building at Los Angeles High School in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood into the new Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The school, which is scheduled to open next fall with space for 450 students, will begin with students only in 6th and 9th grades and will grow one grade level each year.'

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'Emma Sulkowicz is an American arts student, born in New York in 1992, who gained media attention for carrying a mattress around campus to highlight what she saw as Columbia University’s lack of action to remove her alleged rapist from the campus.
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The relationship progresses to “friends with benefits”. In the spring of 2012 they have sex twice, the second time, according to Nungesser, includes anal sex, which Nungesser has not experienced before. Sulkowicz said she had tried before with other men and enjoyed it.

One of the main reasons their relationship does not become deeper was that Sulkowicz had previously been having sex with Nungesser’s close friend, known as John Doe. While Nungesser is back home inGermany for the summer, she messages him that she had tested positive for an STD  (Chlamydia) after having having drunken sex at a party with John Doe, and his best friend Joe.'

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'The New Zealand First leader, a long-time immigration critic, backs the Government's emergency intake of 600 refugees from the war torn country, but with a controversial condition.

"I think we can do better, but we can't while we've got mass immigration," Mr Peters said.

"If we are going to do it, let's take the women and children and tell some of the men to go back and fight for the country's freedom like we are."'

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'In an interview with the website radfem collective, founder of the group Justice for Women and research fellow at the University of Lincoln Julie Bindel says that she would “put … all [men] in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans.”

She also says that heterosexuality won’t survive “unless men get their act together, have their power taken from them and behave themselves.”

From the interview:

"I mean, I would actually put them all in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans. I would give them a choice of vehicles to drive around with, give them no porn, they wouldn’t be able to fight – we would have wardens, of course! Women who want to see their sons or male loved ones would be able to go and visit, or take them out like a library book, and then bring them back.

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'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.'

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'Sep 10, 2015

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

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'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.'