Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake spoke at the Forbes 30 under 30 Summit on Monday, prompting protests over the potential confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
We stand in solidarity with all who have lived through the events Ford has bravely described. It is time for us to break down the conventions that perpetuate rape culture. We believe Ford, and everyone who follows her.
Northeastern University Police Department officers took down the posters that campaign members put up at midnight Nov. 30 long before classes began that day, so very few students got the chance to see them. Furthermore, the university neither commented to student publications regarding the campaign nor sent out an acknowledgement to any students. The dismissive attitude of the university toward student activism sends a clear, albeit implicit, message that the topic is not worth their time.
Students walked the deserted hallways and quads of Northeastern Thursday midnight, taping signs to poster boards, windows, bathroom walls and benches for their campaign to hold the administration accountable for how it handles campus sexual assault.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights lists laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, age and disability. Yet it’s Title IX that universities focus all of their transparency efforts and in doing so information about other injustices on campus slip through the cracks.
