Handling rape hearings on campus
On Nov. 19, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” anow-notorious storyabout the alleged gang rape of University of Virginia junior “Jackie” at a fraternity formal event her freshman year.
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On Nov. 19, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” anow-notorious storyabout the alleged gang rape of University of Virginia junior “Jackie” at a fraternity formal event her freshman year.
Two weeks ago, Republicans took back the Senate and promised a wave of conservative reforms regarding issues like healthcare (shrink it), reproductive rights (limit abortion but provide over-the-counter birth control, maybe) and immigration (bolster border security).
Were you to stroll into Whig Hall last Thursday afternoon, you would have found a bevy of Princeton students debating with a former Yale professor. The topic? Whether to send your kid to the Ivy League.
In the midst of rising racial tensions in Ferguson and an encroaching ISIS abroad, summer’s biggest news story might just have been about a group of naked girls.
In an April 14 article from The Atlantic, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman explored the well documented “confidencegap” between men and women. Women, they found, are consistently likely to underrate theirabilities, to credit others with their own success and to take fewer risks. Though equally competent,women are consistently less confident in their abilities. And Princetonians are not immune: Femalestudents feel less comfortable speaking out in precept, running for leadership positions or applyingfor fellowships, and they are more likely to feel like imposters who were mistakenly admitted (aphenomenon I wrote about last year).Both on- and off-campus, solutions have encouraged women to play with the boys by simply beingmore confident. Like Nike, their slogan is “just do it.” Sheryl Sandberg, for example, encourages womento “lean in” in the corporate setting, pushing aside their fear of failure and instead trusting in theirabilities to take on leadership roles alongside their male colleagues. Similarly, in a column last fall,Marni Morse urged female students to speak up in class even when they weren’t sure about whatthey were saying. Never mind that confident women are more likely to be perceived as arrogant oreven bitchy: The 1969 “BITCH Manifesto” declares, “Bitch is Beautiful,” and celebrates the Bitchfor discarding female norms in favor of her less likeable male counterparts. The message of thesecredos is clear: Women should feel comfortable being confident, and men shouldn’t shame them fordoing so.
The first time I go to Counseling and Psychological Services, I attempt to check in downstairs at the familiar University Health Services front desk, where in a snotty midwinter haze, I have been several times before. It isn’t until I lower my voice to clarify that I am here for a consultation with a counselor that they send me to the third floor. I think I detect a mournful tone in the receptionist’s voice. I decide it’s all in my head.
If “Princeton Mom” Susan Patton ’77 is right about anything, it’s that the hookup culture on college campuses has a dark side. Where she goes wrong is vesting the responsibility for sexual assault entirely in young women, whom she thinks shouldn’t allow themselves to be “preyed upon” by drinking to excess.
The upcoming Arts and Transit Neighborhood has received largely bad press — it will, after all, move our dearly beloved Dinky back 450 feet, affecting access for Princeton residents (especially those unlucky students without rolling carry-ons). But let’s forget for a moment the hassle of trekking to Newark the day before Thanksgiving and turn to the project itself: The Lewis Center is relocating to the southwest corner of campus and getting seriously spruced up. There will be a fountain, an upscale cafe and an outdoor performance plaza. It will become a hub of the arts in a way that the current Lewis Center, a converted — and quite frankly grungy — elementary school located at 185 Nassau Street, just isn’t.