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8.9 percent of female responders
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and 3.3 percent of male responders reported being touched sexually without their consent.
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reported being touched sexually without their consent at the UA in the 2012-2013 school year.
SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS BY ANNIE DICKMAN The Daily Wildcat
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oday kicks off April as sexual assault awareness month, which aims to bring the discussion about sexual
assault to the forefront. “Sexual assault is still a problem, which is why we need to do everything we can,” said Megan McKendry, the violence prevention specialist at the Oasis Program. Sexual assault is notoriously
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QUOTE TO NOTE “This is the inevitable result of a for-profit system of health care. Doctors’ judgments are completely compromised by kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies”
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FOOD COLLECTION bins put out by UA4Food ambassadors are located across the UA campus in locations. Food donations from this month-long campaign will be culminated at the Stuff the CatTran event on the UA Mall today and will be donated to the Community Food Bank of Arizona.
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19, and in 2011, there were four reported. This increase has been attributed by some to the shift in the culture surrounding sexual assault through campus programs.
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underreported by victims, but reporting has recently been increasing. According to the UA’s 2014 Annual Campus Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report, in 2013, there were 28 reported cases of forcible sexual offenses on the main campus. In 2012, there were
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The UA is hosting the annual UA4Food Stuff the CatTran event today on the UA Mall to fill a shuttle with nonperishable food items, which will be donated to the Community Food Bank of
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Arizona. “All nonperishable foods are being collected,” said Christina Rocha, Stuff the CatTran event chair and accountant at the Arizona State Museum. “What’s needed the most is peanut butter, pasta, canned tomato
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Social media has the power to change the way social movements work by providing tools to expand, reach and influence. “Social Movements in the Digital Era” is a seminar series by the Center for Latin American Studies’ Virtual Dialogues that takes place today at 4 p.m. in the Union Kiva Room on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center. Eric Franqui, a Latin American studies graduate student, helped organize the event and said he’s excited to have Justin Wedes speak. Wedes was one of the primary organizers of Occupy Wall Street in New York and is currently working in Detroit helping with social activism. Wedes said he will be talking about how many social movements
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have emerged in the last couple of years in the U.S. and around the world. He will analyze how social media is used to rally and mobilize people in the streets. Social media and social networks are tools that enable people to connect to people and organizations with similar interest across large geography, Wedes added, saying there are no longer boundaries. Web 2.0 technologies such as Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat are being used by activists in the field, Franqui said. Wedes said he believes that no matter what technology is being used, it will never change the need for people to raise their voices and take direct action, such as protests, to put pressure on people in power. Along with Wedes, there will be
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