Some nominees for Nobel Peace Prize laudable, some laughable
(10/10/13 10:55pm)
Today, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded.
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Anti-violence group to release sexual assault prevention PSA
(10/07/13 2:16am)
GatorWell Health Promotion Services has revamped its anti-interpersonal violence group.
Do you “C.A.R.E”?
(10/04/13 1:20pm)
Get excited everybody! C.A.R.E is an awesome, semi-new organization (They got started up last year) that I’m going to tell you allllll about!
Trickle-down ethics: We need to be human
(09/25/13 12:50am)
Last week, this plea from an 8-year-old kid from North Carolina surfaced online:
Miley Cyrus shocks, but why do we care?
(09/19/13 10:01pm)
Miley, what are we going to do with you?
Title IX is more than just rights for women athletes
(09/17/13 11:36pm)
Believe it or not, Title IX is about much more than protecting women athletes. A new student-run grassroots organization, “Know Your IX,” seeks to educate students about their rights under the law and their school’s responsibilities to comply with Title IX’s stipulations.
Editorial part 2: UF needs to educate students on consent
(09/16/13 11:12pm)
Read part 1 here.
Editorial part 1: Victims are punished in rape culture
(09/16/13 12:03am)
Read part 2 here.
New public service announcements released by several local agencies to combat sexual assault
(09/13/13 12:38am)
Two short public service announcements (male and female versions) were released Wednesday encouraging students to intervene during an alcohol-related sexual assault attempt.
Despite what Obama says, intervention in Syria is necessary and inevitable
(09/12/13 11:53pm)
In his speech on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that the United States is not the global police force.
New Zealand women respond to "Blurred Lines" music video with one of their own
(09/11/13 11:44pm)
Lines were blurred between hearing and listening in one of this summer’s biggest hits. If it weren’t for the topless women prancing around Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell in the music video for “Blurred Lines,” no one would have heard what Thicke was “trying to say.”
Rape culture can lead to issues for victims reporting to police – part 2 of 3
(09/11/13 2:44am)
Read part 1 here.
Responsibility for drug and rape culture can't be blamed on one particular song or performer, but we need to reevaluate pop culture nonetheless
(09/05/13 11:49pm)
Last weekend, two attendees of New York’s “Electric Zoo” music festival died from an overdose on molly, the pure form of ecstasy.
Darts & Laurels 9/6/13
(09/05/13 11:38pm)
It’s September, and you know what that means: Halloween-themed crap is about to hit every store shelf, while the weather continues to remain hotter than Satan’s armpit. Sorry, but it’s impossible to enjoy pumpkin-flavored everything when shorts and flip-flops are still de rigueur.
National, local rape culture calls for change in conversation – part 1 of 3
(09/04/13 2:27am)
Read part 2 here.
Even after recent FIU incident, widespread Pi Kappa Alpha violations not surprising
(08/27/13 11:44pm)
Whew, it has not been a good year for Florida fraternities.
Rape Aggression Defense course can teach you how to fight back
(08/18/13 8:16pm)
BAM, I’m in the air. Establish a base, head butt, elbow to the face, elbow to the groin, shin scrape, foot stomp — I’m free.
There is no such thing as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feminism
(07/26/13 7:07pm)
I believe that feminism can be individual, but however nuanced the description gets, there are some things feminism is clearly not. It’s not a taboo, a dirty word, “bad” in any shape or form, and it definitely isn’t a trend.
Darts & Laurels 7/25/13
(07/24/13 11:18pm)
Is this Rainesville or Gainesville? We hope that your midterms went — or are going — well. We’re glad that you’ve chosen to spend some time with us despite the summer humidity and the rain. Now, before the page smudges, we’d like to deliver this week’s edition of...
Southland: a revival of a long lost ballet
(07/17/13 11:43pm)
Katherine Dunham debuted the theatrical performance “Southland” in 1951 in a theater in Chile. After the performance, she learned the U.S. Embassy had disapproved of its “anti-American” themes — or rather, anti-discriminatory undertones — and banned the theater from performing the show in the U.S. According to Cleo Parker Robinson, a student of Dunham’s, the dance company lost funding and folded soon after as a result of the racism-battling ballet.
