ethos of sexual purity has led to school officials discouraging, dismissing and blaming female students who have tried to come forward with claims of sexual assault. ten additional former students told the reporter that they chose not to report their rapes because they were afraid of being punished. liberty ignored the request for comment but the university senior vice president for communications scott lamb was so alarmed by the allegations that he urged the school to address the claims. lamb is now suing liberty climbing he was fired for his vocal opposition to a proposed strategy to confront the claims and for refusing to participate in an alleged coverup. the university spokesperson said lamb s advice on how to publicly respond to the title nine lawsuit played no role in his termination. joining me now is hanna, abrams reporting fellow for propublica and wrote the story i referenced and scott lamb, the former senior vice president at liberty university currently suing the
Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same book and revisiting well-loved works from the past that, due to a variety of circumstances, vanished from the conversation after they peaked on the charts. We are also publishing a digital edition of one of these forgotten best sellers, Mary Augusta Ward’s 1903 novel Lady Rose’s Daughter
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pregnancy, facebook.com/carolcnn or tweet me. we wanted to hear from those at that high school in west virginia, george washington high school, where stenzelle recently spoke. caitlin campbell is the student body vice president. she skipped the speech in protest, but she did watch it online. good morning, and thank you for being here. good morning. why did you decide to skip stenzel s speech? well, the night before the assembly, a teacher called me who was really concerned. she said, you know, i was instructed not to tell anyone about the assembly, but this is the nature. and she read to me a bit of the flyer that stated that the purpose of stenzel s speech was to explain god s plan for sexual purity. i began to spread the worded that this was going to occur so if they wanted to they could opt out. i m personally offended by what