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'A group of men in white suits with fake blood on their crotch areas gathered in Fort Worth to protest male circumcision Sunday.

About 30 members and supporters of Bloodstained Men, a nonprofit group based in California that travels the country in protest of male circumcision, held signs that read, “Foreskin is not a birth defect.” They were at Hulen Street and Interstate 30.

The group was founded in 2012 by a man who legally changed his name to Brother K in 1986 to protest his own circumcision at birth.

“Our founding fathers were not circumcised,” Brother K said Sunday.'

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'ACTA has consistently warned that when a college must deal with grave and emotionally charged issues— and surely sexual assault is such an is- sue—it is due process and the principle of innocence until guilt is established that alone can ensure justice. Many on cam- pus and in political leadership feel better by crying for swift, stern punishments, but rapid, bungled investigations often mean that the guilty walk free and the innocent are punished. Unless we want to see vigilante-style justice, we need to rely on the legal system to deal with crime. The recent events at University of Virginia offer a case in point.

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'At a panel Thursday discussing campus sexual assault and due process, the general counsel for Georgetown University lamented the constantly changing rules being forced on colleges and universities by Congress and the Obama administration.

"Part of what is hard, honestly, as an institution, is the playing field changes with every OCR resolution," Lisa Brown, who is also the university's vice president, said at a panel put together by the American Constitution Society. "You implement the 'Dear Colleague' letter, then you have the [Violence Against Women Act] reauthorization, then you have [Office for Civil Rights'] Q&A and then you have the White House task force report and you have all these resolution agreements."

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'Nancy Gertner's feminist bona fides can hardly be questioned. A college friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gertner is well known for her staunch defense of women in court.

She has won prestigious awards for her women's advocacy, and called her memoirs In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate. A liberal in good standing, she was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Clinton at the recommendation of Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

So what made such a staunch feminist advocate think twice about the current climate revolving around sexual assault on college campuses? It happened when her law firm took the case of a young man Gertner believed to be wrongly accused of rape even though a grand jury indicted him. In the case Gertner described, the man was accused 10 months after the encounter by a woman whose story constantly changed and was contradicted by witnesses.

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'Alexandra Brodsky, a Yale Law Student and well-known campus activist who also edits the feminist website Feministing.com, said during a panel Thursday that some who are raped don't immediately realize it.

Brodsky claimed that just because a woman didn't immediately report a sexual assault doesn't mean she's lying.

"Often schools have time limits because there's this idea that if you were raped you would know it immediately, even though survivors' experiences make clear that that's not true," she said. "That often people need some time to reflect and feel comfortable speaking out."

She also suggested that campus sexual assault cases should not be turned over to the police.'

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'The costs to schools of dealing with allegations of date rapes and other campus sexual assaults, which may have already topped 100 million dollars, could skyrocket under plans announced this morning to sue nor only colleges, but also key academic administrators, for violating the constitutional rights of accused students.

The plans – and an explanation about how and why conducting expulsion hearings which do not permit accused students to cross examine accusers and others violates their right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution – were revealed by public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

The controversial professor, “The Man Behind the Ban on Cigarette Commercials,” and “a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars,” has also been called an “Entrepreneur of Litigation, [and] a Trial Lawyer’s Trial Lawyer.”

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'A major humanitarian group has just come out with a lesson plan for high school students on sexism in video games. It is full of propaganda, vilifies gaming and gamers, and is likely to discourage young women from playing. Does this matter, or is it all just a game? AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers explains.'

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'If two people are equally unable to give consent, but have sex anyway, should either be charged with a crime? It's a question that many college administrators wrestle with when drugs and alcohol are factors in sexual assault disputes. The verdict often seems to be that male students are uniquely responsible for ascertaining that their sexual partners are in a state of mind to consent, even when the female is the initiator and both are intoxicated.

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'Although parenthood isn’t in the immediate horizon of most traditional students, junior philosophy major Dave Jonathan is has been confronting issues of ethics, terminology and choice, taking words right from the mouth’s  of babes.

“(Male) circumcision is just not something that is really talked about,” Jonathan said.

According to Jonathan, several contradictory viewpoints frame the common knowledge surrounding male circumcision,  creating a social environment where parents often decide whether or not to circumcise depending on outdated scientific studies or cultural biases.'

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'First, why is "housework" consistently defined by Sandberg and Grant as washing the dishes and doing the laundry? What about shoveling the snow off the driveway, changing a tire on the car, assembling the Ikea furniture or repairing that leaky faucet and the cabinet door that came off the hinges? In other words, the tough outdoor and mechanical work that husbands regularly do for their wives and families? That doesn't seem to count as far as Sandberg and Grant are concerned. They're perfectly happy to hector husbands to take over the "women's work" around the house, but they don't even suggest to wives that they take over the "men's work."

Second, that Gager-Scott study cited by Sandberg and Grant doesn't actually seem to say that husbands who fold the clean clothes fresh out of the drier get more sex than husbands who just open a beer. Its conclusions seem to go more toward dispelling the myth that people who work hard don't have time for sex.

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'Classrooms at Seattle University had a new rule on Saturday: No Boys Allowed.

That's because it's the annual Expanding Your Horizons program, bringing together 500 middle school girls from Washington State to learn about science, math and engineering.

The girls rotated through workshops focusing on veterinary medicine, infectious diseases and robotics, to name a few.

"We're not trying to exclude boys," said Jen Sorensen, the program's organizer and chemistry professor at Seattle University. "We're trying to provide an opportunity for girls who might not even realize these career opportunities are available to them."'

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'Legislators and universities in New Jersey are changing the way rapes are dealt with on campus following two explosive incidents at local colleges and several high-profile cases that have brought national attention to the epidemic of sexual assault among students.

The allegations of rape at William Paterson University in Wayne and Ramapo College in Mahwah late last year came on the heels of incidents in New York, Florida and Virginia, scandals that prompted the federal government to push schools to be more aggressive in the handling of sexual assault cases.

But universities have struggled to investigate claims that are often difficult to prove — consent sometimes comes down to a matter of perspective, especially in young adults, and in most incidents there are no witnesses and memory is impaired by trauma, alcohol or drug use.

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'Encouraging parents to have their sons get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine—rather than just trying to get more girls vaccinated—could ultimately protect more people for the same price, according to a study by a mathematician.

Whether vaccinating boys against HPV in addition to girls would only divert scarce resources from a campaign originally designed to help prevent cervical cancer has been a matter of debate.

But with HPV-related cancers in men on the rise, and HPV vaccine coverage for girls in the United States stagnating well below the critical levels needed to ensure that most people are protected, researchers have been re-examining the case for a girls-only approach.
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Although the virus is most frequently associated with cervical cancer, women aren’t the only ones at risk. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that a third of the 27,000 cases of cancer HPV causes in the US each year occur in men, where it can cause cancers of the throat, tongue, tonsils, penis, and anus.'

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'The Selma Police Department arrested a woman on Friday and charged her with domestic violence after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend twice. 

Police responded to the 1100 block of Fifth Avenue at 7:36 p.m., where the victim told officers that he had gotten into an argument with 38-year-old Brenda Jean Burns over the phone. Burns then came over to the residence where the argument continued in the front yard. It was at that point that the suspect went into the house, grabbed a kitchen knife, came back outside and stabbed the victim with the knife.

The victim was able to take the knife away from the suspect, but the suspect went back inside the house and grabbed another knife and stabbed the victim again.'

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'Labour has announced it will pick its general election candidate in the key West Yorkshire marginal seat of Halifax from an all-women shortlist.

MP Linda Riordan said last month she was stepping down after 10 years due to ill health.

Candidates must apply by Monday and a shortlist will be drawn up early next week by the party's national executive.

The move comes after Ms Riordan warned Labour was in danger of losing the seat unless a candidate was selected soon.

At a meeting it was decided there should be an all-women shortlist for the constituency.'