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'For 1 in 5 women, their dream school will become a nightmare.' RADiUS and CNN Films lift the lid on America's dirty little secret in the first trailer for the haunting documentary The Hunting Ground. This startling look at the rampant violence spreading across colleges around the country will have its world premiere on Friday, Jaunary 23rd as part of the Sundance Film Festival. It then opens in select theaters nationwide on March 20.

From the makers of 2012's The Invisible War comes a shocking expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue - despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath - both their education and justice.'

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'In response to a public records inquiry, the Oak Ridge Police Department has released investigative reports in a case where a woman claims she was raped in June by a police officer or security guard.

The department at first refused the News Sentinel’s request for the initial incident report, saying the report wasn’t subject to public disclosure during a pending investigation.

The records request reversal came after Anderson District Attorney General Dave Clark said last month he was putting the high-profile case on “inactive but open” status.

Clark said no suspect was ever identified, the woman gave conflicting statements, and her story might have been sparked by jealousy because she came from California to find her ex-boyfriend living with another woman.'

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'Riverside City College student who reported being the victim of an attempted rape inside a women’s restroom on campus has recanted her story, authorities announced Friday.

On Jan. 15, the student told police she was washing her hands in first floor restroom at the Math/Science Building when she noticed a man standing behind her, according to the Riverside City College Police Department.

She said the man pushed her to the ground and attempted to rape her, but she managed to fend him off by stabbing him with a pencil, the release stated.

Video footage, a lack of physical evidence, including blood or the pencil, and other factors led investigators to question the student’s claims, according to Police Chief Jim Miyashiro.'

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'I am compelled to write this letter about the Rolling Stone article (fall 2014) concerning a women raped at a fraternity party at University of Virginia by a number of men identified by one name and fact. It now appears that this is a false story perpetuated by people who have a bias against fraternities.

The university leaders at UVA acted precipitously against all fraternities without learning that the fraternity did not have a party at the time stated, that it did not have a member with the name used and that no member of the fraternity held a position at the natatorium at the time of the alleged rape.
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I am a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, one that was founded at UVA. I was Grand Master of my chapter, faculty and alumni adviser to a chapter at a top engineering university, MS&T at Rolla. I was faculty adviser to a chapter at New Mexico State University. I know a lot about university leadership, having been a chaired professor, head of a department, dean and vice president.

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'Women are better at running marathons than men. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive study of marathon results that appears to confirm what previous research had suggested.

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'A new gender study released by Mintigo indicates that companies with more than 1,000 employees probably should hire a female CEO.

That's because while male CEOs achieve higher revenue per employee in companies with up to 1,000 people, in larger companies, female CEOs achieve up to 18 percent higher revenue per employee than male CEOs.

The Mintigo study looked at CEOs from companies with more than 100 employees or more than $50 million in revenue and then analyzed thousands of indicators for companies, and compared the two groups split by gender.'

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'A lot of readers have been asking if Paul Nungesser, who was called a “rapist” by Kirsten Gillibrand, can sue the New York senator for libel. He could sue, in theory, given that anyone could try to sue for any reason these days, but he wouldn’t have much of a case.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, in an e-mail to the Washington Examiner, outlined the complications for Nungesser should he consider a case against Gillibrand.

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'Last week many hundreds of you submitted the National Parents Organization’s recommended changes to the child support rules to the federal office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). This agency tells the individual states what their child support guidelines and enforcement programs should look like. I seriously doubt that they have ever before received such a large amount of input from the general public. This has been a terrific show of unity.

We are going to keep the pressure on! This week, the task is really simple, and will take you only 30 seconds.

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Dear Ms. Addison:

Please convey the following request to the Commissioner and to the Director, Policy Division: I request that the OCSE hold public hearings on its proposed rulemaking in each of the federal regions with adequate notice to the public. If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact Ned Holstein, Acting Executive Director, National Parents Organization at parents@nationalparentsorganization.org.

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'The frenzy over college sexual assault now sweeping the nation was triggered by a specific event.

In 2010, a small team of investigative journalists published a report revealing, so they claimed, an epidemic of college rape. The report was a jumble of highly selective reporting and dubious statistics, as we shall see. But the reporters spread the news far and wide and no one thought to question their accuracy.

Federal officials were electrified by the findings and launched a draconian crusade. The term “rape culture,” previously limited to gender-theory seminars, slowly found its way into the national lexicon.

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'A FACEBOOK post by NSW Police has sparked a passionate social media debate on an issue many suggest society — and the police themselves — sweep under the carpet.
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“Last year, 1 in every 5 domestic violence assaults that NSW Police responded to involving intimate partners were for male victims.”

Already the post has been shared nearly 5000 times and drawn hundreds of comments.

Many posters are supportive of the police raising the issue, with many sharing their own survival stories. However, some suggest the police don’t treat the issue as seriously as they should.

“Many more stories like this are needed,” wrote Darren Quinn. “There are too many assumptions by the general public that its him him him.”

Hellen Brugnatti, agreed, saying: “It’s nice to see some recognition where the men are victims not just the woman victims.”'

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'New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced it is raising bus and subway fares due to budget constraints, a week after spending over $76,000 to stop “manspreading.”

According to the New York Times:

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Thursday to raise the base fare on subways and buses by a quarter, to $2.75, and the cost of a 30-day MetroCard by $4.50, to $116.50.

The new fares, approved by the authority’s board, were part of a package of increases being considered for the system’s trains, buses, tunnels, and bridges. The new rates will take effect on March 22.'

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'A German court on Thursday ruled in favour of men’s right to urinate standing up, after a landlord tried to retain part of a tenant’s €3,000 (£2,300) deposit for allegedly damaging the marble floor of a toilet by sprinkling it with urine.

The debate about whether men should stand or sit when urinating is no laughing matter in Germany, where some toilets have red traffic-style signs forbidding the standing position. There is also a derogatory term for men who sit and pee – “Sitzpinkler” – which implies that it is not masculine behaviour.

Judge Stefan Hank in the city of Düsseldorf said men who insist on standing “must expect occasional rows with housemates, especially women” but cannot be held to account for collateral damage.

“Despite growing domestication of men in this matter, urinating while standing up is still widespread,” he said.'

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'A BUILDER from Liskeard who was facing an attempted rape charge says he is taking legal action after the case was discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Sean Frayling spent six months on remand at Exeter Prison before he was released without charge this month.

At Truro Crown Court, the CPS decided to offer no evidence against Mr Frayling and a formal not guilty verdict was recorded.

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'Since January 1st, all of Norway’s state-run hospitals have become legally obliged to offer circumcision of newborn baby boys. A majority of doctors all over the country, however, have been refusing to perform the operation that’s often part of religious rituals, claiming it’s an unnecessary surgical procedure on otherwise healthy infants.

Only one hospital in all of southeastern Norway is officially offering to circumcise newborns, according to an internal document obtained by newspaper Dagsavisen. In a response to the state health ministry’s request for a status report on circumcision, state agency Helse Sør-Øst (Health Southeast) wrote on January 16 that only the hospital in Kristiansand (Sørlandet Sykehus) offered to circumcise newborn baby boys. A few others offered circumcision only to boys more than a year old.
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At Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) northeast of Oslo, fully 13 of its 15 urologists have submitted written statements reserving themselves against performing circumcision. “The opposition to this emerged before the law on circumcision was approved,” Dr Anja Løvvik, leader of the urology department at Ahus, told Dagsavisen this week. “The fact that many (doctors) want to reserve themselves against this should not be unexpected.” Her colleague Dr Frode Steinar Nilsen at Ahus called circumcision “a surgical operation with no health advantages and one that, as with all surgery, carries with it a risk and a burden for the child. That’s why we don’t want to perform it.”