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UO Coalition to End Sexual Violence to meet Friday 2/28

1-2PM, 115 Lawrence. Their blog is here:

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  1. Anonymous 02/27/2014

    the UO has been half assed on the administrative leadership on most everything else, so cleaning up their act on this issue, like many others is long overdue. That said, despicable the tee shirt in the blog link is apparently produced by a company that supplies tee shirts for fundraising purposes, with no apparent link to the UO, other than perhaps someone looking for shock value to further a cause. there is no UO trademarked logos on the duck of course is Donald and belongs to Disney. Lets hope the rest of the movement is better considered than the use of this tee shirt.

    • uomatters Post author | 02/27/2014

      My takeaway is that there is a shocking level of underreporting, and unacceptably trivial and infrequent sanctions. UO has only expelled one student for sexual assault in the past 4 years? Add in the fact UO is trying to charge the student newspaper to see the public records on UO’s staffing and expenditures for dealing with these assaults. The video is pretty compelling, and I’m glad someone is taking these problems on.

  2. Keith Appleby 02/27/2014

    “My takeaway is that there is a shocking level of underreporting, and unacceptably trivial and infrequent sanctions. UO has only expelled one student for sexual assault in the past 4 years? Add in the fact UO is trying to charge the student newspaper to see the public records on UO’s staffing and expenditures for dealing with these assaults. The video is pretty compelling, and I’m glad someone is taking these problems on.”

    No doubt. I am concerned that some people in the UO Coalition are focusing on issues involving tacky t-shirts, rather than the larger structural issues that reinforce rape culture.

    Currently, there are parts of the UO Bureaucracy that treat sexual assault as an administrative issue rather than as a criminal matter. Until we focus on treating sexual assault as a crime, one where perpetrators know they are going to go to jail rather than have to write a “reflection paper”, then I think it is a waste of time to be up in arms about t-shirts. Focus on the real issues.

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