College Rapist's punishment? Write 5-page book report.

[redqueen]

Occidental College Sexual Assault Response Subject Of Federal Complaints

Female Occidental College students, faculty and alumni say in a federal complaint that the Los Angeles school failed to take campus sex crimes seriously by improperly reporting and adjudicating sexual assaults and covering up rapes.

The 250-page complaint filed by a group of 37 Thursday with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights says the school maintained a hostile environment for sexual assault victims and their advocates and violated federal Title IX laws against sexual discrimination.

Even when the school's investigations have found wrongdoing, punishment has been light, the complaint says. One student found responsible for raping a woman was given the punishment of writing a five-page book report, according to the complaint.

"I've seen some of the outputs of these so-called 'educational sanctions' like book reports and apology letters and they're abysmal," said Danielle Dirks, a sociology professor who specializes in crime and punishment and one of the women who filed the complaint. "The fact that Occidental has invited rapists back to campus and even told survivors not to worry because 'he's reformed now' after these types of inadequate sanctions is an abomination."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/occidental-sexual-assault_n_3118563.html

[ismnotwasm]

1. What on this Hemmingway short story?

"Up in Michigan"
The story opens in a small town in Michigan called Horton’s Bay. The countryside round about the town is farming and timber country and catches breezes from Lake Michigan. Jim Gilmore, originally from Canada, is the town blacksmith, does a good job, and takes his meals at D.J. Smith’s, where Liz Coates works in the kitchen. Liz is obsessed with Jim but he doesn’t think about her much beyond a vague sense of appreciation at how neat her hair is.

Liz and Mrs. Smith see Jim, D.J. Smith, and Charley Wyman off on a fall deer-hunting trip. The women were cooking for four days beforehand and although Liz wanted to make something special for Jim, she was too embarrassed to attempt it.
Anticipation of the Jim’s return builds inside Liz all the time they are gone, but when they do return with three deer, she is disappointed because nothing special happened. That night, Charley Wyman stays to supper at Smith’s and the men drink whiskey before dinner. Dinner passes without incident, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith go upstairs, leaving Jim and Charley drinking together in the front room and Liz in the kitchen.
Jim comes out of the front room obviously drunk and enters the kitchen, where Liz is reading a book. He starts touching her, and though she is shocked because no one has touched her before, she enjoys it. Jim suggests they go for a walk and they exit the house, kissing on the way down to the warehouse on the dock.

http://www.gradesaver.com/complete-short-stories-of-ernest-hemingway/study-guide/section12/


Wouldn't surprise me.

[Arcanetrance]

2. I have no words for my disgust.

So one person walks away scarred for life the other gets to type up some words they probably don't mean on the computer. There needs to be a class taught to my gender apparently as to how to act.

[CrispyQ]

3. A book report for the crime of rape?

[seabeyond]

4. my osn is going to UNO, new orleans. we check out the crimes. ONE rape last year, or something.

we all know better.