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(04/03/22 3:06am)
Editor's note: Confidential sexual assault resources for UR students include CARE Advocates, which can be reached at advocate@richmond.edu or 804.801.6251; Peer Sexual Misconduct Advisors (PSMA), at psma@richmond.edu or 804.346.7674; CAPS, at CAPS@richmond.edu or 804.289.8119; Virginia LGBTQ Partner Abuse and Sexual Assault Helpline (24/7), at 866.356.6998; Greater Richmond Regional Hotline (24/7), at 804.612.6126; National Sexual Assault Hotline (24/7) at 800.656.HOPE.
(07/10/20 4:00pm)
Editor's Note: This article was updated to correct a source's last name.
(04/07/20 1:00pm)
The Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Coordinating Committee (SMPRCC), the successor to the President's Advisory Committee for Sexual Violence Prevention and Response (PAC), released its final report in January 2020 regarding the status of the PAC’s recommendations and the work the SMPRCC had done.
(03/09/18 2:48am)
The University of Richmond updated its website near the end of the fall semester as part of an ongoing process to increase transparency of Title IX policies and campus resources. Despite the increased internal transparency, the website fails to effectively communicate information about the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. Instead, it protects UR business interests, hindering sexual assault education and prevention.
(01/25/17 7:19pm)
In late fall of 2016, students at UR read yet another article about a sexual assault that had happened on campus, and how the administration had failed to help. Outraged, students called for reform, and the school began to work with the student body to ease the pain and change the future.
(11/16/16 4:50pm)
Keith Edwards, a nationally recognized speaker on sexual assault and male identity, discussed how students can be proactive in his talk, “Ending Rape: Addressing the Roots of Sexual Violence,” on Tuesday evening.
(10/20/16 6:06pm)
Junior Rennie Harrison spent Tuesday, Oct. 4, the day of the vice presidential debate, with a man who knows a thing or two about being VP. Harrison attended a gathering of the It’s On Us national committee at the Washington, D.C., home of Vice President Joe Biden.
(09/24/16 8:35pm)
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(09/11/16 9:34pm)
Jepson School of Leadership Studies faculty will complete its Title IX training in a meeting this Monday, September 12, four weeks after the start of school, according to an email sent to leadership students Sunday afternoon.
(09/08/16 10:25pm)
9:40 p.m. -- The event ends.
(09/01/16 12:54am)
This story was updated on Wednesday, August 31, to correct information regarding the funding of Beth Curry's position. The story originally said that Curry's position was funded by the university's Planning and Priorities Committee.
(04/13/16 4:02pm)
As the sun set Tuesday, more than 200 Richmond students gathered together to take back the night from perpetrators of
sexual assault, rape and sexual violence.
(04/05/16 5:10pm)
University of Richmond's annual sexual assault awareness program Take Back the Night has been rescheduled to next Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. because of cold weather, according to an email sent on behalf of Kerry Albright Fankhauser, the interim dean of Westhampton College.
(04/05/16 12:01am)
Update: University of Richmond's annual sexual assault awareness program Take Back the Night has been rescheduled to next Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m., due to cold weather, according to an email sent on behalf of Kerry Albright Fankhauser, the interim dean of Westhampton College.
(03/24/15 10:40pm)
With new changes to the sexual misconduct policy that was updated at the start of the academic school year, University of Richmond will host a town forum event Wednesday with the hopes of educating the campus community on these changes, Beth Curry said, who is the coordinator for sexual misconduct education and advocacy on campus.
(01/22/15 3:13pm)
The University of Richmond sexual misconduct policy has expanded from three pages to 31 pages, and now includes details on the definition of consent, clauses on domestic violence and overhaul to the policies on stalking, among other changes.
(11/25/14 5:40pm)
Issues regarding campus sexual assault have routinely garnered national attention throughout this year, as everything from White House plans to investigate Title IX violations, to mattress-carrying advocacy efforts by undergraduate sexual assault survivors, to last week’s harrowing story of a gang-rape at UVA, have thrown the national spotlight onto how colleges confront this widespread scourge.
(11/24/14 1:58am)
In case you've been living under a rock for the last decade or so, Bill Cosby – comedian, former Jell-O spokesman and television's favorite dad – has been periodically accused of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women over the course of his famed career. In case you've still been living under that rock for the last month, these periodic accusations are now becoming more permanent.
(11/22/14 5:01pm)
No one ever asks for it. Rape is not a gift. It is never invited by virtue of dress, actions, words, relationships, gender, sexuality, beliefs or behavior. Rape is torture. Sexual assault is a form of mental, emotional and physical trauma that can never be healed. Unlike Ebola, or the myriad other epidemics that invade our lives every two or so years, there is no cure for sexual assault. There is no medication, miracle shot or antibiotic that can erase a survivor’s pain. The only comfort that these brave people get is the knowledge that they can prevent rape from happening to others.
(11/18/14 7:23pm)
Kelsey Fuson, a freshman at University of Richmond who identifies as asexual, conducted a survey on campus to find out what students know – or do not know – about asexuality.