Tag Archives: sexual assault

Written by staff writer Prisha Puntambekar In late March, Lucy Flores became one of the first women to issue a bold statement involving Joe Biden and his alleged history of inappropriate conduct. Flores claimed that presidential candidate Joe Biden harassed her back in 2014.  Since then, several women have stepped …

A former psychiatry professor from Yale University has been accused of sexually assaulting five students at a research facility in the Caribbean. He also, according to accusations, conducted inappropriate “medical exams” on three different students.  Dr. D. Eugene Redmond ended up retiring from the school of medicine at the university …

Small, monumental steps forward signified the continuation of the #MeToo movement, but this time in the fast food industry. On September 18, McDonald’s workers in ten different cities across the nation went on strike. This strike was to protest sexual harassment in the workplace. The employees walked out during their …

Megan Halicek, a fifteen year old gymnast was  recovering from a broken spine, trusted in Dr. Larry Nassar, the USA gymnastics team doctor,  for her recovery, but instead, he continuously sexualy assaulted her. “He abused me, all the while telling me stories about his Olympic journey,” Halicek said. “I closed …

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Rape cases seem to be all over the news these days, and among these, one of the most publicized is Brock Turner’s story. Turner, a Stanford University freshman, has been charged for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster outside of a fraternity house in January of 2015. His …

On the rare occasions when the media is awash with stories of outrage over women getting sexually assaulted, females assaulting males frequently gets swept under the metaphorical rug. When a woman is assaulted, but when a man is on the receiving end, people think he was lucky to “get some action,” and …

Emma Sulkowicz is a senior at Columbia University this year, and she is carrying her mattress everywhere she goes. Why? It’s where she was raped sophomore year, and the rapist still remains on campus. Sulkowicz later reported the incident to Columbia, along with three other girls who had been sexually …