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'A list accusing a dozen University of Chicago students of rape was circulated over the Internet this past weekend, and although it has been taken down, it has generated plenty of discussion.

CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports classes don’t officially start until next week at school’s Hyde Park campus, but someone posted a list of 12 names on Tumblr, accusing both straight and gay undergraduate men of “gender-based violence.”

Those names have since been removed, and the Tumblr page no longer exists, but the names also have been listed on fliers passed around campus.

Most of the students on campus are freshman attending Orientation Week.

The list was first reported on the website Jezebel. The anonymous authors of the post claimed they were keeping the Hyde Park community safe, claiming the University would not.'

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'Thanks to an increased focus on sexual assaults on college campuses – mostly due to an overblown statistic claiming 20 percent of college women have been sexually assaulted – young college men are starting to rethink how they talk to women.

At first glance that might seem like a good thing – men learning to be more respectful of women and not be so rapey – but that’s not what this is.

This is about men actually avoiding contact with women because they’re afraid a simple kiss or date could lead to a sexual assault accusation.
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Pollack also noted that the media attention tocampus sexual assault has led to a “witch-hunt” mentality.

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'Soccer star Hope Solo is alleged to have assaulted her sister and 17-year old nephew in June of this year. Unlike Ray Rice, Solo is still plying her trade as a goalkeeper for the national team. This led several people to claim that Solo is the beneficiary of a double standard. In The New York Times Juliet Macur makes the argument:

"One can argue the differences between an N.F.L. player punching his soon-to-be wife and a soccer star brawling with her family, but it is indisputable that both qualify as domestic violence. The glaring contrast in Solo’s case is that while several football players recently accused of assaults have been removed from the field, she has been held up for praise by the national team.

On Thursday she was even given the honor of wearing the captain’s armband in celebration of her setting the team’s career record for shutouts in its previous game. The question is why.

Celebrating Solo’s achievement right now is like allowing running back Adrian Peterson, who has been accused of child abuse, to continue to play for the Minnesota Vikings — and then awarding him the game ball for his next 100-yard game."
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'While a man was lying in his bed in a southwest suburban hospital, medicated and waiting for a heart transplant, a nurse entered his room and “initiated unsolicited sexual relations, including intercourse,” according to lawsuit filed Monday.

The patient and his wife filed the suit Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging that Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn was negligent in employing the nurse who “had a propensity to initiate unauthorized physical contact with patients,” the suit stated. The nurse, who was also named as a defendant, is accused of battery.
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In January, the Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation reprimanded a nurse of the same name as the defendant listed in the suit. The reprimand was brought on by her failing “to report having been terminated from a facility for crossing professional boundaries with a patient.”

Her nursing license is currently active in Illinois, according to the department’s website.'

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'A Suncoast veteran went to jail Wednesday in order to keep all of his VA disability check. It's all because he and his wife are divorcing and she wants half.

Under federal law, the money is exempt from alimony payments. But state law says she may be entitled to it.

Terry Lynn says he wants to set a precedent to help all veterans in similar situations. He is on full disability from injuries he suffered while serving as a Marine during the Gulf War, but is now going through a divorce battle with his wife he met after his time in the military.

He says she wants nearly half of what he gets: $1,500 of the roughly $3,000 he says he receives a month.
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ABC 7 contacted the National Veterans Legal Service Program in Washington D.C. They say it's an issue which has been argued across the country. U.S. Title 38 says VA benefits are exempt from taxation, claims of creditors, and other legal processes. It makes no exception for alimony.

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'It's only a small victory, but a victory nonetheless. Last Wednesday, Governor Chris Christie signed a bill to reform New Jersey’s very out of date alimony laws. Of course divorce lawyers resisted with every fiber of their beings, but the bill received strong bi-partisan support in the state legislature. Here’s one article on the subject (Washington Times, 9/11/14).

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'Long considered a man’s domain, today’s office is a much different place from the Mad Men archetypes of the past. Significant advancements have been made in bringing equity to the workplace — much-needed steps that are helping grow and enrich the new world of work.

However, issues remain that affect both genders. While many discussions of gender at work generally focus on women, there exist some unique challenges that directly impact men in the workplace; problems that are often the result of the same prejudices and outmoded methods of thinking concerning men’s primacy.

Consequently, today’s worker often faces a number of unique challenges. Here are three affecting men in the workplace today.
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... This prevailing attitude among management can cause significant difficulties for work-life balance among men (too). Choosing family over work can be seen as a significant negative, or that it shows a lack of commitment to the company. Men who wish to advance in these corporate climates can be expected to devote significant time above and beyond the normal 40 hour workweek — where men in the C-suite generally view it as more acceptable for women to spend time on work-life balance issues.
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... attitudes about traditional male gender roles have proven to be more ingrained. Men are still viewed as being the primary breadwinner.
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Today, approximately 60 women graduate from college for every 40 men, a dramatic reversal from the 2:1 male to female ratio seen in the 1960s. Enrollment rates among women are higher, as well — and this trend shows no signs of reversing.
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'When Roland Martin brought up the domestic abuse case of female soccer star Hope Solo during a Morning Joe panel, things got a bit tense.

Earlier this year, Solo was arrested on two misdemeanor counts of fourth degree domestic violence assault against her sister and nephew. After pleading not guilty to both charges, she will face trial later this year. Throughout her ongoing case, Solo has yet to lose major endorsement deals with companies like Nike and Gatorade.

Citing ESPN “lauding” Solo during a women’s soccer highlight reel, Martin asked, “Domestic violence is a national issue, should we not be questioning why Hope Solo is still playing on the women’s soccer team, and Nike — who dropped Adrian Peterson — has said nothing about Hope Solo?”

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'The e-mail arrived with this screaming headline: "GOALKEEPER HOPE SOLO ON VERGE OF BREAKING U.S. WNT ALL-TIME SHUTOUT RECORD," featuring a page chock full of statistics and facts from Solo's 14-year international career. ...

Solo, 33, is known for more than soccer these days, unfortunately. She has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor domestic violence in the assault of her sister and 17-year-old nephew, has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial in November.
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This is not the time for U.S. Soccer to be celebrating Solo and her accomplishments. It is the time for Solo to be dealing with her personal and legal issues far away from the soccer field. She has been convicted of no crimes, but neither was Michael Phelps when USA Swimming suspended him for three months in 2009 after a picture surfaced of him smoking a marijuana pipe.
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In an e-mail Tuesday evening, U.S. Soccer defended its decision to honor Solo.

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'Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Friday for a "unified strategy" to end violence against women by terrorists, warning that the practice is growing within groups like ISIS.

"What happened to the Yazidis in Iraq and the hundreds of girls and women kidnapped and forced to become wives, so to speak, of the ISIS terrorists is a tactic that is very ancient," she said. "We had reason to believe [the tactic] was not going to persist in the 21st century, and now it is."

Clinton identified the Lord's Resistance Army, a notorious rebel group based in the Central African Republic, as being "at the forefront of that horrific behavior." Recently, other groups like Boko Haram have adopted its well-documented practice of kidnapping young children, she said.

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'Students at the University of California at Berkeley who skipped a mandatory training session on sexual-violence prevention will be blocked from registering for spring classes until they make up the session, the campus’s chancellor told the university system’s Board of Regents this week.

The chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, spoke at a meeting of the regents on Wednesday at which a task force presented a report with recommendations aimed at standardizing policies governing sexual assault across the 10-campus system.

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'A feminist group has published a list of ‘top ten tips’ for preventing rape that include “don’t put drugs in women’s drinks” and “if you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her.”

The list was created by Rape Crisis Scotland, a charity which works to support local rape centres, and provides training and consultancy to the police, Crown office and health services on how to deal with rape victims and perpetrators.

Their website claims that the charity “provides crisis support for anyone in Scotland affected by sexual violence at any time in their lives.” However, it is abundantly clear that the charity believes all rape victims to be female, and all perpetrators male.

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'When celebrity attorney Gloria Allred called a press conference this week to blast the NFL for its handling of domestic violence issues, Brandon Marshall was dragged back into the fray.
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“It’s not the NFL’s job to raise men,” Marshall said, via the Associated Press. “We’re kidding ourselves if we think it’s the NFL’s job to take boys from college and raise them to men. It is a problem in our marriages, a problem in our communities, a problem in the way we coach children and parenting – that’s where it starts. It doesn’t start with the NFL, it doesn’t start with the government, it starts at home.”

Marshall provided reporters with testimony which said the woman in question, Rasheedah Watley, was not attacked by him, as well as letters asking him for payments between $100,000 and $1 million.

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'More than 830,000 men fall victim to domestic violence every year. A man is the victim of domestic abuse every 37.8 seconds in America. These numbers are not inconsequential and the frequency is far from insignificant.

Jan Brown, executive director and founder of the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men, stated that “domestic violence is not about size, gender, or strength. It’s about abuse, control, and power, and getting out of dangerous situations and getting help, whether you are a woman being abused, or a man.”

In 2001, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health collected data about the health of a nationally representative sample of 14,322 individuals between the ages of 18 and 28. The study also asked subjects to answer questions about romantic or sexual relationships in which they had engaged during the previous five years and whether those relationships had involved violence.

From this information researchers found that of the 18,761 relationships, 76 percent were non-violent and 24 percent were violent. Of the 24 percent that were violent, half had been reciprocal and half had not — reciprocal meaning there was violence inflicted by both partners. Although more men than women (53 percent versus 49 percent) had experienced nonreciprocal violent relationships, more women than men (52 percent versus 47 percent) had taken part in ones involving reciprocal violence.

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'In its ongoing effort to prevent campus sexual assault, the Obama administration on Friday announced the “It’s On Us” campaign, designed to spread responsibility for preventing sexual assault.

“‘It’s On Us’ aims to fundamentally shift the way we think about sexual assault, by inspiring everyone to see it as their responsibility to do something, big or small, to prevent it,” a White House fact sheet on the campaign said.