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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBYU to stop investigating rape victims for violating Honor Code
Well now, that's mighty white of them:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/byu-to-stop-investigating-rape-victims-for-violating-honor-code/
SALT LAKE CITY -- Students at Brigham Young University who report sexual assault will no longer be investigated for possible violations of the strict honor code that bans drinking and premarital sex, the Mormon-owned school announced Wednesday in a major reversal to a practice that drew widespread scrutiny.
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Victims advocates said the practice discourages reporting of sexual violence, which is already underreported on campuses nationwide.
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Victims advocates said the practice discourages reporting of sexual violence, which is already underreported on campuses nationwide.
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BYU to stop investigating rape victims for violating Honor Code (Original Post)
gratuitous
Oct 2016
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)1. What the hell, it's only 2016.....nt
get the red out
(13,466 posts)2. Religion
Hating women and girls for thousands of years.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)3. Good. Stop investigating as Honor Code violations.
Start investigating as criminal felonies.
Maybe colleges should stick to teaching, and law enforcement should step in to do its job.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Well it is Utah,home of
a Theocracy and where the Male is the Dominate Member of that Theocracy. When ones household is organized in a manner that the Man is the Religious Prophet and the next in line are the Male offspring followed by the Female offspring then the Mother. You have issues!!!! Culture?