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Your Story Heals Gets Upgraded
June 4, 2010
It may not be as visible from the outside, but Your Story heals received a few major technical upgrades in the past week. The story submission process has been vastly improved in terms of stability, and the whole site is running more smoothly than ever. Enjoy!
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Date: April 2010
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American University Erupts Over Date Rape
April 1, 2010
Girls Who Get Drunk at Frat Parties ‘Responsible’ For Date Rape, Says Student Newspaper
By Susan Donaldson James
Today begins Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention month — and American University is in an uproar over an anti-feminist diatribe in the student newspaper charging that some women who survive date rape invited it.
“Let’s get this straight: any woman who heads to an EI [fraternity] party as an anonymous onlooker, drinks five cups of the jungle juice, and walks back to a boy’s room with him is indicating that she wants sex, OK?” columnist Alex Knepper, 20, wrote in the Eagle, the school paper.
“To cry ‘date rape’ after you sober up the next morning and regret the incident is the equivalent of pulling a gun to someone’s head and then later claiming that you didn’t ever actually intend to pull the trigger,” he said.
Gregg Milligan on Oprah – watch the episode online at Oprah.com
February 21, 2010
RAINN Speakers Bureau member, Gregg Milligan, was on Oprah on Monday of last week. The RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotlines had a 689% usage increase in the two days following the show. Thank you, Gregg, for sharing your story!
If you missed it on TV, you can watch the entire episode online.
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