It’s time to call on the BU administration to adopt the The Survivors' Bill of Rights and remind BU that they have a responsibility to ensure the safety of its students.
Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.
BU needs to make a constant commitment to the cause, actively work to ensure students’ safety, dismantle the prevalent rape culture on its campus and establish trust so students will be willing to speak up and report assailants in the first place. It will never be as easy as one quick, overnight policy change.
Boston University students protested Sunday night against the University's handling of sexual assault cases on campus. Organizers from Campus Survivors provided posters, chalk, tape and spray paint to...
Nearly a month after BU junior Prisha Kumar’s second open letter condemning the University’s treatment of sexual assault was released to the public — after an initial letter written in June — Kumar and the other co-founders of the @campus.surviors Instagram account organized an on-campus protest, demanding a response from the administration.
Domestic violence often escalates until someone gets seriously hurt or loses their life. We cannot let it continue as women, girls and men die at the hands of these abusers. This is an issue that needs to be addressed immediately or our women will continue to suffer.
Sexual assault is an issue prevalent on college campuses across the nation, and the phenomenon is worsening in recent years.
Despite a number of initiatives working to prevent sexual assault, the...
Twenty-five Massachusetts members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Urban Search and Rescue team returned home Sunday after they were deployed to help with Oregon’s wildfires. Personnel and resources from 39 states and several Canadian provinces were sent to help the state.
TRIGGER WARNING: The following editorial includes discussion and details of rape and sexual assault.
For one man, Baltimore has proven to be the city that continues to find him not guilty. Nelson Bernard...
