Harvard Reviews Sexual Assault Policy as Students Push Change. Columbia University, under pressure from students, is revamping its policy on sexual assaults.
Next in line is Harvard University. Harvard has hired new staff to oversee sexual-assault prevention, response and resources, and plans to revise its policies in the coming months. The university has been slow to act on a student referendum passed in 2012 that calls for the school to redefine its policies on consent to sex, said Ben Martin, co-president of Sexual Health Education and Advocacy Throughout Harvard College, a student advocacy group.
“We got an open letter on divestment in fossil fuels, but they’ve been far less open about how they’re going to act on the sexual-assault policy or the referendum,” Martin said in a telephone interview. Students at schools across the U.S. are criticizing the handling of campus sexual violence. Columbia President Lee Bollinger said yesterday that the college will release campus... Close Open Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg More Attention Title IX. Watch A Student Totally Nail Something About Women That I've Been Trying To Articulate For 37 Years. Lily Myers: Across from me at the kitchen table, my mother smiles over red wine that she drinks out of a measuring glass.
She says she doesn't deprive herself, but I've learned to find nuance in every movement of her fork. Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark. Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark Cartoon of a women's suffrage rally, 1898, The Royal Library, Copenhagen Thirty-three-year-old Daryush Valizadeh, known to his predominantly heterosexual male fan base as Roosh, is a well-known pick-up artist within the worldwide “Seduction Community,” which relies on pop evolutionary psychology to teach the art of getting laid.
Its origins date back to dubious neuro-linguistic programming “speed seduction” theories in the early 1990s, but the Community rose to prominence with investigative reporter Neil Strauss’s 2005 bestseller exposé The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, which spawned a VH1 reality show and drew aspiring “PUAs” to online forums and self-proclaimed gurus promising foolproof seduction strategies. Pick-up artists believe that all women are the same: submissive, choosier than men when picking sexual partners, entranced by shiny objects. Die Like a Man: The Toxic Masculinity of Breaking Bad. Spoilers for the Breaking Bad finale follow.
“It felt right and satisfying and proper to us that he went out on his own terms; he went out like a man,” Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan shared in a recent podcast, describing the death of Walter White in the series finale. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we heard Hank – his prototypically macho brother-in-law – say something very similar during Skyler’s intervention, when he defended Walt’s decision to refuse both financial charity and cancer treatment: “Maybe Walt just wants to die like a man.” What, exactly, does it mean to be a “man”? It’s a question that sits at the dark, warped heart of the entire series and its anti-hero protagonist. A nerdy chemist whose brains haven’t earned him any power or respect from the world at large, the terminally ill Walt decides that he’s finally going to get that power and respect through whatever means necessary (and whenever possible, using science).
A tale of money, sex and power: The Ellen Pao and Buddy Fletcher affair. By Adam Lashinsky and Katie Benner FORTUNE -- Jan. 20, 2009, was a day of proud and joyous reflection for Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr.
The New York hedge fund manager had come to Washington, D.C., to witness Barack Obama making history and also to host a pre-gala cocktail party. Concern Over HBS’ ‘Mad Men’ Culture. The student newspaper at Harvard Business School reported today (April 30) that an off campus sexual assault on an unidentified MBA student is prompting deeper questions about the broader culture of the famous business school.
According to the report in The Harbus, written by The Harbus’ recently elected co-editor Bart Clareman, the assault “involved unwanted groping” of a female first year student’s breasts by one of her section mates at an off-campus venue. “The victim has decided not to pursued criminal charges against her assailant,” wrote The Harbus. “In accordance with her wishes, the administration has not undertaken an investigation to identify the perpetrator of the assault.” The incident, however, appears to be part of a broader pattern of Mad Men-like behavior at Harvard Business School, including excessive drinking and behavior that many would consider sexual harassment.
At least one student told Poets&Quants the game playing is not an unusual occurrence. In tech, some bemoan the rise of 'brogrammer' culture. "The Social Network," which chronicled Facebook's rise, is attributed with bringing tech culture to the mainstream.
At tech startups, some bemoan the rise of 'brogrammer' cultureThe term is a satirical one to describe computer pros with a fraternity party mind-setCritics say the emerging style shuts out women and others who don't fit inIt can also have consequences, by alienating customers and potential hires (CNN) -- At one of the world's biggest gatherings of Web culture, a 28-year-old executive talks about landing a tech job by sending a CEO "bikini shots" from a "nudie calendar" he created. On campus at Stanford University, a hot startup attracts recruits with a poster asking if they want to 'bro down and crush some code.'" And the world's largest Internet registration company entices Web entrepreneurs with a Super Bowl ad in which two female celebrities paint its logo onto the body of an apparently naked model.
And welcome to the world of the "brogrammer. "