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'Nicole Eramo is the associate dean of students who heads the sexual misconduct board at the University of Virginia. She was also the villain of the now-infamous and recently retracted Rolling Stone story about the gang rape of a freshman named Jackie that never happened at a UVA fraternity.

In Rolling Stone's piece, Eramo was painted as the frontline responder who never really responded. She was the one who, when she heard Jackie’s story, tried to steer her away from reporting it, supposedly to protect the university’s reputation. Reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely never spoke to Eramo, but she did put words in her mouth, presumably told to her by Jackie.

“If Dean Eramo was surprised at Jackie's story of gang rape, it didn't show,” Rubin Erdely wrote, and then topped it off with an all-too-perfect quote. When Jackie asked the dean why UVA doesn’t publish statistics on sexual violence, “she says Eramo answered wryly, ‘Because nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school.’”

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'“History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely,” Will and Ariel Durant wrote in 1968’s “The Lessons of History.” Even as ancient Greece and Rome faced serious “moral weakening” and societal decay, for instance, both continued to produce “masterpieces of literature and art” and a steady flow of “great statesmen, philosophers, poets, and artists” for hundreds of years.
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If the couple were alive today, one wonders if they could have retained their trademark pluck. On college campuses across America, an army of leftist snowflakes — a generation long told they’re special, fragile, and never, ever wrong — is on the march, aiming to squelch any threatening idea that “triggers” uncomfortable thoughts. On the downside, these marauding bands have sparked an epidemic of protests, hysteria, and Nathaniel Hawthorne-style banishings. On the upside, they’re doing a heck of a job alerting the nation that a significant portion of the “leaders of tomorrow” might be one tick short of a working cuckoo clock.

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'In this issue of the newsletter, we are honored to have a piece by Warren Farrell. Warren describes the efforts he has led to create a White House Council on Boys and Men. Warren is the noted author of numerous influential books, including Father and Child Reunion. This is one of the best exposes of the problems we are fighting in the family courts. If you have not read it, now is the time.

Warren is advocating that President Obama create such a Council to address five main issues affecting males: family court practices that cause fatherlessness, emotional health of boys, physical health of boys, education of boys, and work lives of boys and men. I am honored to be a member of Warren’s Council. To see the terrific job the Council has done in presenting the unmet needs of boys and men, see http://whitehouseboysmen.org/blog/the-proposal

In this newsletter, Warren describes how you can help bring these issues to the attention of Presidential candidates in Iowa.'

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'There’s a good chance you’ve heard about the Meitiv kids (especially if you have children of your own or friends with children). The kids, ages 10 and 6, were walking home from a park a mile from their house in Maryland when they were spotted by a zealous citizen-protector, reported to the police, picked up 3 blocks from home, and detained for over five hours. In the end, they were handed over to their parents, but only after plenty of panic on both the kids’ and parents’ parts. And, as it turns out, that wasn’t really the end. The parents found themselves under investigation for neglect.
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'‘Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” is the empathetic account of five sexual-assault cases at the University of Montana (UM) between 2010 and 2012. Jon Krakauer, the acclaimed author of “Into the Wild” and “Into Thin Air,” was moved to write this very different book when he discovered “that many of my acquaintances, and even several women in my own family, had been sexually assaulted by men they trusted,” and he offers sharp insight into “what deters so many rape victims from going to the police.”
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Mr. Krakauer devotes more than 100 pages to this complex encounter, which went to trial in February 2013. The football player says it was consensual, and his lawyers suggested that Ms. Washburn had lied to spite him for his uncaring post-coital demeanor. A jury unanimously found him not guilty in less than three hours. Mr. Krakauer argues that in the campus disciplinary proceeding, with a lower burden of proof, Mr. Johnson should have been expelled and probably would have been had he not been a football hero in a football-crazed town. Nobody except Ms. Washburn and Mr. Johnson really knows what happened—though Mr. Krakauer does show compellingly that she has been deeply traumatized by whatever Mr. Johnson did.

To its great credit, “Missoula” tells both sides of these disturbing stories faithfully enough to let readers draw their own conclusions. Yet Mr. Krakauer is convinced that a great many men get away with rape (which is true) because the authorities don’t try hard enough to punish them (which was true once but is much less so now). He urges universities to not let “legalistic quibbling” impede expulsion of alleged rapists.

From malecare.org:

The African American experience of Prostate Cancer is a rarely told story.

African American men suffer from Prostate Cancer more than anyone, anywhere. If we want better treatments, then we've got to tell folks what it means to be a African American man diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. Please go to http://twiceasmany.org/prostate_cancer_story/ and write a few paragraphs about your experience with prostate cancer OR email twiceasmany@malecare.org and we'll set up a time for a telephone interview.

The stories we collect will be used for support, advocacy and promotion of research into why Prostate Cancer kills African American men at more than twice the rate as white men.

What we don't know is staggering. We don't know if the hospital, clinic and doctors office experience is culpable. We don't know if African American men are screened and diagnosed in the same manner and with similar quality that white men are. We only know that, when we count the corpses, African American men are dying at twice the rate as white men.

That is why we want to hear your stories. We want to know what you as a Black man, or you, as a caregiver or family member, are experiencing regarding prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Malecare has been working on this disparity issue since 2001, along with many other external prostate cancer advocacy and research programs.

2002 - Malecare, starts an online database of African American's and Prostate Cancer research.
2006 - Father Dad African American Health Program
2011 - Black Dad Connection health and parenting network
2014 - Financed African American research project at Johns Hopkins
2015 - Twice As Many African American Prostate Cancer Advocacy Program

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'A former high school teacher accused of having sexual relationships with three of her students took a plea deal Wednesday, crying as she accepted the agreement in court.

One of the boys was 16 and two were 17 when they were having sex with Brianne Altice, 35. One testified that he considered her to be his girlfriend during their yearlong sexual relationship.

But the boys were all minors, and Utah law also says a person cannot consent to sex if the other person is in a position of special trust. Altice, who taught high school English, pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible sexual abuse in exchange for prosecutors dropping 11 other counts, including several first-degree felonies.

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Announcement here.  Excerpt:

'The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of local draft boards.
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If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 local and appeal boards throughout America would decide which young men in each community receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on federal guidelines.'

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'Hillary Clinton believes that “religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” to expand access to abortion.

Clinton said today that it’s not enough to legalize the procedure. “Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced,” she said Thursday, per the Daily Caller. “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”'

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'Why is it so hard to get movies made about women? According to Meryl Streep, it might be because many male viewers lack the imagination needed to appreciate them.

Then again, they've never needed it.

Streep elaborated on this idea on April 22 in a conversation with "Selma" director Ava DuVernay and Pakistani documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, moderated by Jon Stewart. The impressive panel, called "Story Power: Three Great Women In Film," was part of the sixth annual Women In The World Summit, presented by Tina Brown Live Media.'

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'In November last year, anti-rape activists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, erupted in outrage when it was announced that libertarian feminist Wendy McElroy had been invited to take part in a debate about sexual violence. McElroy, as it happens, was herself the victim of a rape so violent it left her with permanently impaired vision. But she has since incurred the wrath of those who claim to speak for rape victims by vehemently disputing the existence of what radical feminists call ‘rape culture’. Rape culture, McElroy has written, is ‘a lie [which] has been successful in spite of reality’ and is now being used to justify an illiberal and sinister attack on due process. Whether one agrees with this view or not, it ought to be obvious that transparent debate of this issue is not only legitimate, but vital. McElroy’s activist opponents disagreed. The very expression of opinions like hers, they insisted, constitutes an intolerable threat to student safety.

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'Megyn Kelly has a message for feminists: Toughen up, Buttercups.

Kelly, host of Fox News’ The Kelly File, invited Christina Hoff Sommers onto her show Wednesday night in order to discuss the demands made by students at the University of North Texas, who decided they wanted a commencement speaker who “better aligned with their values” than Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Although Sommers is known as the “Factual Feminist,” many scholars and feminists view her title as misleading and claim she is a critic of feminism rather than an actual feminist. Sommers coined the term “equity feminist” to describe her views, and argues that modern feminism contains “irrational hostility to men” as well as an “inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different.”'

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'In a first, researchers at Oxford University have watched infants as young as a day old as their brains process a light prodding of their feet. The results confirm that yes, babies do indeed feel pain, and that they process it similarly to adults. Until as recently as the 1980s, researchers assumed newborns did not have fully developed pain receptors, and believed that any responses babies had to pokes or pricks were merely muscular reactions. But new research published Tuesday morning changes that.

Taking advantage of the fact that newborns less than a week old tend to sleep through anything, Rebeccah Slater, an associate professor of pediatric neuroimaging at Oxford, and her colleagues placed 10 infants who were 1-6 days old in an fMRI machine. The researchers, who reported their findings in eLife, observed which areas of the infants’ brains became more active, or consumed more oxygen, as the scientists lightly poked their feet. They did the same for adults and compared the brain images.
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'A defective penile-circumcision clamp caused the tip of a 7-day-old infant's penis to be amputated, his mother claims in court.

Though the mother identifies herself and her son in the complaint filed on April 22 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Courthouse News has redacted their last names because of the sensitive nature of the claims.

The March 2010 "horrific injury" occurred in Oxnard, Calif., while baby Benjamin's doctor "performed what was supposed to be a routine circumcision procedure," according to the complaint.

For the procedure, Benjamin's doctor allegedly used a "Mogen Clamp," manufactured by Misdom-Frank Corp., Medco Group and Sklar Instruments, all of West Chester, Pa.

Unlike other circumcision instruments, the lawsuit says, the Mogen Clamp lacks a protective shield or bell to safeguard the head of the penis.