[TW: Rape] Yale Fined for Underreporting Campus Rape
[TW: Rape] Yale Fined for Underreporting Campus Rape:
The Department of Education is fining Yale $165,000 for underreporting sexual assault on campus. The fine is the result of a seven-year federal investigation prompted by a Yale alumni magazine article. It found the school failed to report four “forcible sex offenses” to the DOE in 2001 and 2002, as the 1990 Clery Act requires colleges to do. Having corrected its record and revised its reporting policy, Yale now says it will appeal the fine.
A University spokesperson told Businessweek the school believes the fine is too large, considering “the particular situations that resulted in findings of violations.” With Yale tuition and housing now at $58,600, the fine amounts to less than it costs one person to attend the school and is .0085 percent of its $19.3 billion endowment. We can probably expect to see more of this kind of story as student activists file Clery Act complaints at schools like Occidental, Swarthmore, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Yale joins the ever growing number of universities fined for under-reporting campus rape. The true numbers likely larger still.
Colleges Tackle Illicit Use of A.D.H.D. Pills
Colleges Tackle Illicit Use of A.D.H.D. Pills:
Interesting to see the form the push back takes here. Instead of education or stronger restrictions, most of these colleges are just relinquishing responsibility to external practitioners. And of course, nothing seems to be done to investigate the base causes and address those.
To compare to the number of people you know with legitimate prescriptions: a mere 11% of children ages 4 to 17 are diagnosed with ADHD.
“Various studies have estimated that as many as 35 percent of college students illicitly take these stimulants to provide jolts of focus and drive during finals and other periods of heavy stress. Many do not know that it is a federal crime to possess the pills without a prescription and that abuse can lead to anxiety, depression and, occasionally, psychosis.
Although few experts dispute that stimulant medications can be safe and successful treatments for many people with a proper A.D.H.D. diagnosis, the growing concern about overuse has led some universities, as one student health director put it, “to get out of the A.D.H.D. business.””
"The issue is being exacerbated by an explosion in the $150 billion private market for student debt…"
“The issue is being exacerbated by an explosion in the $150 billion private market for student debt with interest rates for some existing loans surpassing 12 percent.” – Combined private and federal student debt doubled since 2007 to $1.1 trillion.
"It’s all smoke and mirrors in some ways, the issue of tuition and fees […] It seems to…"
“It’s all smoke and mirrors in some ways, the issue of tuition and fees […] It seems to be one area of the academic world where no one is looking and no one wants to look too closely.” – Course Load: The Growing Burden of College Fees – at Pr…