Members of the UA community came together Friday afternoon to protest the university s handling of sexual assault cases and their treatment of survivors.
Roughly 200 students and community members congregated on Old Main lawn while speakers discussed their experiences with sexual assault, before the group marched in a loop around the lawn. Chants of âWe will not be silent!â rang from the group.
Emma Presley, a sixth-year student, and a group of other female students who want to see change at the university organized the event.Â
âI think for concrete change we need there to be change in things that arenât concrete,â Presley said. âI donât know everything in the whole world, but I am open to being informed. Itâs changing the stigma of believing someone.â
(This story was updated on May 5, 2021, to correct John Treat s title and the course he teaches.)
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At the meeting, several Nazi bureaucrats cited the work of a young lawyer named Heinrich Krieger, newly returned from his year studying abroad in the United States at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. There, he researched how laws across the U.S. segregated and disenfranchised Native Americans, African Americans, and other non-white groups a legal model the Nazis looked to as a way to contro
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Sexual assault victim reports UA agreement with her call for improved policies
Sexual assault victim reports UA agreement with her call for improved policies
April 28, 20219:47 am
I met with Chancellor Steinmetz (virtually) this afternoon and he has agreed to meet ALL FIVE DEMANDS.
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Recent reporting has covered Gillian Gullett, who stepped forward as a victim of sexual assault at the University of Arkansas in 2017 and has criticized the UA’s recent decision to pay $20,000 to the male student she said assaulted her to settle his lawsuit over the campus handling of his misconduct case.
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