TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
30 PERCENT OF PENN UNDERGRAD WOMEN SAY 47% THEY’VE BEEN 52% TOUCHED OR PENETRATED WITHOUT 26% CONSENT.
The most common reason respondents said they did not report sexual assault or misconduct: They did not believe it was serious enough.
of students reported sexual harrassment
22.8
15.3 12.7 10.7
victimization percent rates by year for female undergraduates from freshmen to seniors
of students believed that a victim’s report of a crime would be supported by the University
was the survey response rate among undergraduate and graduate students
the rate of victimization among undergraduate females was five times higher than that of undergraduate males
Survey results ‘deeply troubling,’ Gutmann says Survey illuminates sexual assault at Penn CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor
Almost a third of Penn’s female undergraduates say they’ve been sexually assaulted. On Monday, Penn released its results from a sexual assault climate survey conducted last semester by the American Association of Universities, which
Penn President Amy Gutmann chairs. The data was also released in aggregate form by the AAU. Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price called the results “deeply troubling” in an email to all Penn students sent on Monday morning, promising to arrange meetings with student leaders throughout campus to discuss what steps to take. “The survey results confirm our deepest concerns, and we
write to you now to say that we are therefore redoubling our efforts,” the email said. “We must not and we will not rest until we effectively tackle this problem as a campus community.” By senior year, almost a third of Penn undergraduate women who responded to the survey reported experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation. The survey also found that 12 percent of female undergraduates at Penn had
experienced nonconsensual penetration involving force or incapacitation since their arrival, and 20.8 percent had experienced sexual touching. The survey, which was administered last April by the independent research firm Westat, was designed to measure students’ experience with sexual violence and misconduct on campus. More than 150,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students at 27 universities, including every
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Team of Penn doctors conducted the first double hand transplant on a child
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This summer, surgeons at Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed the world’s first ever double hand transplant on a child, giving eight-year-old Zion Harvey, who lost his hands as a toddler, a new chance at life. When Zion was two years old, he survived a life-threatening bacterial infection, which left him without hands and feet and required a kidney transplant. A resilient child, Zion learned to use prosthetic hands and feet for dayto-day life without complaining, but he still secretly wished that one day he would have a pair of hands he could call his own. “I hoped for somebody to ask me [if] I want a hand transplant, and it came true,” he told NBC News earlier this summer. Because he had been taking immunosuppressants from a young age to prevent the rejection of the transplanted kidney, Zion was a perfect candidate for another transplant. After going through intense tests and screenings to check if
Ivy except Princeton, participated in the research. At Penn, the response rate among undergraduate and graduate students was 26.9 percent — a total of 23,789 students. The survey categorized students as male, female or TGQN (transgender, genderqueer or non-conforming, questioning, not listed). 5.5 percent of males were victims of nonconsensual
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Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is an icon in political academia.
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Donald Trump may be the most famous Quaker seeking the White House, but another Penn graduate is now competing with him for the job. Two weeks after entering the presidential race, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig is the fourth political outsider in the 2016 election cycle. The distinguished academic graduated from Penn in 1983 with
We can afford to think of ourselves as adults because we don’t have anyone to tell us we aren’t.”
undergraduate degrees in both the College of Arts and Sciences for economics and the Wharton School for management. Lessig declared his candidacy as a Democrat on Sept. 6 after quickly raising $1 million in less than a month. In the past, Lessig has caused controversy by urging a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States aimed at overhauling the U.S. Constitution in its existing state. His views on campaign finance — which feature prominently in his campaign — include support SEE LESSIG PAGE 6
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