Article here. Submitter's comments appear as first comment to this item. Excerpt:

'The U.N. children’s agency said on Saturday that hundreds of children were abducted two weeks ago by an armed group in South Sudan that is suspected to have ties with the country’s military.

UNICEF had previously said about 89 boys, some as young as 13, were forcibly recruited by an armed group near the town of Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state, in mid-February. The agency said *the boys were taken while doing their exams, in a recruitment operation that appeared to target mostly adults in the area known as Wau Shilluk.

UNICEF said in a statement Saturday that it is now “confident that the armed group which took the children ... is aligned with” South Sudan’s military. It said the group is led by Johnson Oloni, a general who once fought against the government but joined the national army in 2013.'

Letter here. Excerpt (starts on pp. 6-7 of the .pdf file):

'3. OCR misstates applicable law on sexual assault and harassment on campus, encourages unfair treatment for some accused students, and gives colleges and universities a green light to trammel students’ First Amendment rights.

We hate to pile on here. But when members of the law faculties of both Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania—hardly bastions of conservative thought—express deep misgivings over the sexual harassment policies adopted under pressure from OCR by their respective institutions, it is clear that something is wrong.

OCR has pushed past the limits of its legal authority in addressing sexual assault and harassment on college and university campuses. This letter has already addressed the expansive and problematic definition of harassment found in OCR’s October 26, 2010 Dear Colleague letter on harassment and bullying, which discusses harassment/bullying in both K-12 public schools and on college and university campuses. In addition to that letter, OCR has released an important Dear Colleague Letter on Sexual Violence on April 4, 2011. In addition, it published documents titled “Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence” (April 29, 2014) and “Know Your Rights: Title IX Requires Your School to Address Sexual Violence” (April 29, 2014.) OCR also published a highly burdensome settlement agreement with the University of Montana (“Montana Agreement”) that it labelled as a “blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country to protect students from sexual harassment and assault.” OCR has since sometimes backed away from its characterization of this document as a national model, although its signals to regulated universities about the Montana Agreement’s intended effect have been mixed.

Article here. Excerpt:

'There are now at least 17 states that have introduced shared parenting legislation. This is a sure sign that shared parenting is now a mainstream issue. The bills are quite different from each other.

YOU are the most effective person to get your state Legislators to act. If you push them, we will win.

Here are the states, and how you can get involved.'

Article here. Well, how about that! What a novel idea! If you think you've been the victim of a crime, call the police. Wow. Who'da thunk it? Excerpt:

'New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has advised female college students who claim to have been sexually assaulted to contact real, actual police.

“If someone gets shot on a campus, that is not an academic matter,” Cuomo said on Wednesday, according to The Syracuse Post-Standard. “You would call the police.”

The Democratic governor said rapes and other sexual assaults are similarly serious criminal matters and should be handled by police.

“It is not a campus matter,” Cuomo explained. Students “have a right to go to law enforcement.”

SAVE invites you to our press conference on Friday, March 13th, where we will have panelists discuss campus sexual assault and wrongful accusations at this level. Panelists include writer Cathy Young, attorney Susan Kaplan, and wrongfully accused student Joshua Strange.

The event will be held in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club, with breakfast provided at 9 a.m. and the briefing to start at 10 a.m.

Following, those interested are invited to lunch at Old Ebbitt Grill for further discussion on this issue (entrees $12-30, self-pay).

Please RSVP to Allie Plihal at aplihal-at-prosecutorintegrity.org if you plan on attending.

I hope to see you there!

Have a great weekend,

Gina Lauterio, Esq., Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

Video on YouTube here. The talk was given in India by Deepika Bhardwaj (documentary film-maker and journalist, director of "Martyrs of Marriage", about the abuse and mis-use of Article 498 A of the Indian Penal Code). She reviews the abuse and mis-use by women of laws passed for their protection that curbs or vacates the rights of men and their relatives to be presumed innocent.

Article here. Excerpt:

'You have to feel a little sorry these days for professors married to their former students. They used to be respectable citizens—leaders in their fields, department chairs, maybe even a dean or two—and now they’re abusers of power avant la lettre. I suspect you can barely throw a stone on most campuses around the country without hitting a few of these neo-miscreants. Who knows what coercions they deployed back in the day to corral those students into submission; at least that’s the fear evinced by today’s new campus dating policies. And think how their kids must feel! A friend of mine is the offspring of such a coupling—does she look at her father a little differently now, I wonder.

It’s been barely a year since the Great Prohibition took effect in my own workplace. Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

Of course, the residues of the wild old days are everywhere. On my campus, several such "mixed" couples leap to mind, including female professors wed to former students. Not to mention the legions who’ve dated a graduate student or two in their day—plenty of female professors in that category, too—in fact, I’m one of them. Don’t ask for details. It’s one of those things it now behooves one to be reticent about, lest you be branded a predator.

Forgive my slightly mocking tone. I suppose I’m out of step with the new realities because I came of age in a different time, and under a different version of feminism, minus the layers of prohibition and sexual terror surrounding the unequal-power dilemmas of today.
...

Article here. Excerpt:

'The bipartisan group of U.S. senators that has been pushing legislation to curb campus sexual assaults is making some changes to their proposal as they look to advance the measure in the new Congress.

Story here.

'A Spokane treatment center for teen drug addicts is now accepting only girls at its inpatient facility. It had been coed.

The executive director of Daybreak Youth Services, Annette Klinefelter, said the gender-specific program aims to balance an inequity that favored boys.

The paper says Washington has 246 beds for treating teens for drug and alcohol addiction and only one-third of those have been for girls.

Daybreak is a private, nonprofit founded by the Whitworth Community Presbyterian Church. It has 40 beds. Boys are still served through a daytime drug treatment program.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Given conventional ideas of male roles, we often tend to imagine carers as being women. But more men take on this “unpaid work” than you might think, and particularly in older groups. Research we’ve carried out shows just how difficult some find it.

Around 6m men and women in England and Wales provide care for ill or disabled relatives according to 2013 figures from the Office for National Statistics. Men play a significant part in this. While more women than men under 65 are carers, men aged in the 50-64 age group provide a higher percentage of unpaid care than women aged 25-49. Among the over 65s, more men provide care (15%) than women (13%).

But because older men often believe it is their role to look after their families and cope with changing circumstances, older men who care for spouses, partners or family can become isolated and unwilling to ask for help, or even ignored by GPs who focus on the person needing care.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'"With the help of EMILY’s List, Democrats are already laying down markers on GOP candidates. This week, the group that supports pro-choice female Democratic candidates launched a new campaign that will document each time a Republican candidate “ignores, insults, or offends” American women. The “Insult & Injury” initiative, first shared with RealClearPolitics, includes digital advertising and graphics that can be shared via social media.

EMILY’s List argues it already has a good amount of material to work with, pointing to Rand Paul’s “shushing” of CNBC host Kelly Evans during a recent interview, and Mike Huckabee’s description of women who curse in the workplace as “trashy.”

But beyond those headlines, the group is focusing on the GOP candidates’ records on a variety of issues, including abortion, contraception access and pay equity. EMILY’s List is targeting Republican presidential candidates’ opposition to Planned Parenthood and/or their efforts to defund it, as well as their opposition to raising the federal minimum wage, which the group argues disproportionately affects women.

“Women and families need leaders who understand the challenges they face and take them seriously. They deserve better than the disrespectful words and harmful actions of the current Republican 2016 field,” said Communications Director Jess McIntosh in a statement."

Get ready for another round of advertisements and statements from liberal politicians defining women by body parts and by the pills they take. Further, as the left has cried racism toward anyone who disagrees with Barack Obama, they'll be crying sexism as we begin to harshly and honestly criticize Hillary Clinton.

Letter here. Excerpt:

To the Editor:

Women outperform and outnumber men in postsecondary education, in part because the K-12 system does not provide boys with the same educational experience. It is geared for girls. Our academic system must bolster the experience for girls, but not at the expense of boys.

As we encourage girls to consider STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), we must work equally hard to encourage boys to consider literature, journalism and communications. Boys are often pushed toward math and science, and receive inadequate social support. We need to recognize boys’ differences, and their social and developmental needs.

Article here. Excerpt:

'As part of its Empowering Males of Color initiative, DCPS plans to recruit 500 volunteer tutors for black and Latino males. It will also award grants to schools that devise their own programs to help those students. And, in its flashiest move, in the fall of 2016 it will open a new boys-only high school east of the Anacostia River.

As part of its Empowering Males of Color initiative, DCPS plans to recruit 500 volunteer tutors for black and Latino males. It will also award grants to schools that devise their own programs to help those students. And, in its flashiest move, in the fall of 2016 it will open a new boys-only high school east of the Anacostia River.

Story here. Excerpt:

'George Mason University expelled a student after his ex-girlfriend complained of their consensual BDSM relationship, the student claims in court.

John Doe sued the university and two of its student deans, on Feb. 18, in Federal Court.

Doe claims that his girlfriend, who did not attend George Mason, initiated the BDSM practices (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism).

He says they dated November 2012 until January 2014, and that she requested, and received, acts such as "choking, biting, slapping, spanking, whipping, and restraining her.

They used the safe word "red" to prevent injuries, but doe claims that she told him "that if she said 'stop' during sex, he was not to stop because that was part of the game. However, if she used the safe word, their agreement was that John Doe should stop the sexual activity."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A group of students at the University of California, Berkeley participated in a silent demonstration on Tuesday to protest parts of a national campus sexual assault conference that they didn’t like.

Among the things the angry students did not appreciate is “fair process” for people accused of committing sexual assaults. The students, who placed duct tape over their mouths and held signs, charged that due process for such defendants is “insensitive,” reports The Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley campus newspaper.'