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2016-12-14T16:00:04Z
Sunday morning, New York Times readers across the country faced a front-page profile of one female student's horrific experience with sexual assault at Columbia. Sexual assault has been in the spotlight since February, when the Blue and White published a story about Columbia's failure to properly adjudicate a repeat sexual assault offender. Two patterns have emerged in the dialogue since then. First: There is lack of accountability in the University's response to complaints. Second: There are flaws in student culture around consent. Perpetrators, the direct cause of sexual assault, are products of our very own Columbia community and culture. Columbians can and should hold University administrators accountable for their failures, but we also must take ownership of Columbia's culture around consent and support for survivors.
... 2016-08-24T19:00:04Z
Editor's note, Jan. 18 at 10:50 a.m. An initial version of this editorial called for Sexual Violence Response to have a professional listening hotline and a partnership with RAINN. However, SVR already has a 24/7 listening hotline staffed by professional survivor advocates, and has had a working partnership with RAINN for several years. Accordingly, the article below has been corrected to include only the demands that are informed by fact. We have also corrected a statement about the frequency of sexual assault as a function of the time of day to indicate that the highest proportion of assaults occur between 6 p.m. and midnight. Spectator regrets the errors.
... 2015-11-16T13:02:30Z
6,000 miles away from Columbia, volunteers pull a boat of Syrian refugees onto shore off the coast of the Greek island Lesbos. They immediately set to work treating the wounded and distributing food and blankets. The organization behind this humanitarian effort: IsraAID, a nonprofit, nongovernmental humanitarian agency based in Israel that provides invaluable relief in emergency crises around the world. IsraAID succeeds in bringing together people from all across the political and religious spectrums to work for a common cause. Unfortunately, I have found that some Columbia students are not capable of doing the same.
... 2015-04-02T23:51:59Z
This morning, President Bollinger sent an email to students of all four Columbia colleges emphasizing the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. He introduced and encouraged students to take the Association of American Universities' (AAU) Campus Climate Survey, which will be arriving in inboxes on April 6. The survey will tackle "experiences and perceptions of sexual misconduct on campus, and the results will be released in the fall."
... 2015-01-03T22:00:02Z
Updated, 7:20 p.m.
2015-01-03T21:00:03Z
On the Thursday before spring break, administrators held a town hall so that students could give feedback and hear updates on the University's sexual assault and gender-based misconduct policy. This was in response to months of student demands for public discussion of issues with the sexual assault reporting process at Columbia. The town hall included deans of all four undergraduate schools, who were joined by Title IX and Student Services for Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct administrators, among others.
... 2014-12-30T09:00:03Z
Student groups and councils are looking for new meeting space after boardrooms on the fifth floor of Lerner Hall were repurposed into health offices this summer.
... 2014-12-04T18:15:00Z
I've come to believe that there is no question more dreadful than, "So, what's your plan after graduation?"
... 2014-12-04T12:14:47Z
For the first month or two of this semester, I found myself freaking out about something I'd never imagined I'd have to worry about at Columbia: a growing fear that I had way too much free time on my hands.
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