Last updated on 09/30/2015
9/17/2015: This is the UO administration’s “advisory council”, that was appointed without consulting with the UO Senate. Or maybe it’s the Title IX Management Team that was appointed without consulting the Senate. Because sexual assault is not an academic matter? I’m no law professor, but I believe the whole reason Title IX applies is because the courts have decided sexual assault prevents women from having an equal chance at education.
From Camilla Mortensen’s story on Perlow in today’s Eugene Weekly:
EW asked Perlow, in light of recent high-profile rape cases, what she as the DA might do differently when it comes to handling sexual assault on and off campus. For a story on campus rape, EW collected rape statistics for Eugene, Springfield, the UO and Lane County from 2009 through roughly (depending on the jurisdiction) 2014. The numbers showed that out of more than 700 reported rapes only 19 were prosecuted by the Lane County DA’s office with 11 convictions.
Perlow said the DA’s office added $25,000 to its continuing Violence Against Women Act federal grant to help address sexual assault on the UO campus. The DA’s office has received VAWA money in the past, funding a domestic violence investigator, and as of Oct. 1, the added grant money will help fund a prosecutor to work with a newly formed campus sexual assault team.
The team is a partnership between the DA’s office, campus and Eugene police, PeaceHealth, Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS), the UO’s Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity and more.
The grant means that a student reporting a sexual assault has a dedicated prosecutor and, as Perlow says, the survivor controls the investigation and knows “that’s my prosecutor right there.” It’s based on Ashland’s “You have options” model, she says. The model operates on the principle that “when a victim is given the ability to control certain aspects of a sexual assault investigation — such as who is contacted and if an arrest is made — law enforcement and the person who was assaulted both benefit.”
9/2/2015: President Schill meets with Sexual Assault Advisory Council
From what I can tell this “advisory council” was appointed without consultation with the UO Senate:
Caitlin Corona, recent UO grad
Col. Lance Englet, Professor of Military Sciences
Sheryl Eyster, Assoc Dean of Students
Susie “Dee Dee” Kintz, Classified staff, Human Physiology
Andrea Herrera, GTF in Sociology and WGS
Jocelyn Hollander, Department Head, Sociology
Katie Green, Lane County DA’s office
Ibrahim Gassama, Professor, Law School
Sandra Martinez-Modesto, Undergraduate student
Robert McCullum, Asst Director Basketball Operations
Victoria Ryan, UO Law student
Jane Ward, Community member, Forensic Psychologist, and expert on the treatment of high-risk sex offenders
Juwaan Williams, UO student-athlete
Mike Schill, UO President
Jamie Moffitt, VPFA
Robin Holmes, VP for Student Life
AVP for Sexual Assault Prevention and Title IX Coordinator (hire in process)
Darci Heroy, consultant (until AVP is hired)
Their charge apparently comes from Mike Gottfredson’s $10K a head Independent Review Panel and VPSL Robin Holmes:
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