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09 The Anchor Newspaper
Week of October 27, 2014 | Vol: 87 | Issue: #9
sexual assault in sweet Hall
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Only reason I'm up STARTED for this 8 am is the FROM THE NOW ass in my literature BOTTOM WE’RE HERE Rebuilding the class Middle Class; Clinton endorses Raimondo at Democratic Rally
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uesday night, members of the RIC community received a rather somber email from Scott Kane, the interim vice president for student affairs, in their inboxes.
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“We are sorry to inform you that in a RIC residence hall on Tuesday, a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted by another RIC student,” the email explained. “The alleged perpetrator has been suspended and banned from campus until an investigation is completed. According to Campus Police Chief Frederick Ghio, the assault happened late Tuesday night in Sweet Hall. Both the victim, a female, and the perpetrator, a male, were freshmen. There was no alcohol involved in the incident, but Ghio did note that they knew each other after living on the same floor for about a month. According to other state media outlets, the victim was driven to Rhode Island Hospital, where she informed police.
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TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT
According to Ghio, the way such incidents are handled are two pronged. There is a criminal system, and a campus judicial system. If the victim chooses to press charges, then the Providence Police take over in large part from there. “We encourage the victim to turn it over and make a statement to Providence Police,” Ghio said. Ghio also stated that while the victim has filed a report with campus police, they are still in the process of filing an official complaint with Providence Police.
n what was probably the most exciting thing to happen on campus since President Obama cancelled his Oct. 16 visit, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to campus last Friday to endorse Democratic candidate for governor, Gina Raimondo. Raimondo’s speech revolved around her experiences growing up in the middle class, and her plans for its revival in Rhode Island. Taking care of workers is a big issue for her campaign, standing behind equal pay for women and for clinTon raising
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“Whenever we find out about a sexual assault, the victim has to come in and make a statement, but we can’t force that,” Ghio stated. “In conjunction with that, we always ask the victim if they’d like to press charges.”
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retty much everyone in the Rhode Island College
community uses some form of social media—Twitter, Facebook, etc. Even the college is connected, from the dean of students to the departments themselves. But, there
may be cause for concern when RIC students make a Twitter to talk about other RIC students. The recently rekindled � RICxCrushes is the new RIC confessions/crushes Twitter account, where students can
Hillary Clinton came to campus to endorse Gina Raimondo for Govenor. – Sam Mandeville, Anchor Editor
submit what they think about other students, faculty, or any other member of the RIC community, within the 140 character limit. There are several things to be noted about the account. There was once another RIC confessions Twitter in TwiTTEr years past, but it was see page 4