Exeter University - where JK Rowling and Zara Tindall studied - tops the list of 108 universities where sex assault allegations have been made by people on the Everyone s Invited website.
The forum, set up last year by former student Soma Sara for people to share their stories of sexual abuse and rape culture , has shaken Britain s educational establishments.
Along with top schools, the UK s most prestigious universities were named in the 1,000 plus testimonials and red-brick Exeter appeared most, coming up in 65 anonymous testimonials on the website.
Oxford, Leeds, Edinburgh and University College London make up the top five.
Everyone s Invited s founder Miss Sara, who set it up while living with her grandmother s Paris home during lockdown after graduating from UCL, has said they were overwhelmed with new testimonials from universities.
Following a historically destructive wildfire season and the global coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 2 million lives, the annual Starker Lecture Series is set to return to Oregon
Romanian startup DRUID raises $2.5 mln in Series A investment round DRUID CEO Liviu Dragan
Source: DRUID FB page
BUCHAREST (Romania), January 12 (SeeNews) - Romanian startup DRUID, specialised in developing intelligent virtual assistants (chatbots) for companies, said on Tuesday it has attracted a $2.5 million (2.05 million euro) Series A investment.
The investment round was led by GapMinder Ventures fund with $2.2 million, while the remainder was invested by Early Game Ventures and private investors, DRUID said in a press release. The new round of financing will be used to launch new conversational automations, to further develop artificial intelligence components, and to accelerate international expansion. DRUID’s ambition is to become the most important conversational AI provider from Europe and to deliver a virtual assistant for every employee, DRUID CEO Liviu Dragan said.
Someone hasn t bothered reading the link.
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More ironic humour from Andy Borowitz (and very close to the truth!)
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) A furious Donald J. Trump attempted to fire the Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, sources report.
According to the sources, Trump was so irate about the Supreme Court’s dismissal of his election challenge on Tuesday that he phoned Barrett directly to inform her that she was “history.”
“I hired you to get a job done, and you didn’t get it done,” Trump angrily informed Barrett. “You’re out of here.”
Sources say that Barrett had the unenviable task of informing Trump that Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life and therefore cannot be fired, a revelation that left Trump “flabbergasted.”
But other options include:
Mallard thinking a hug was akin to rape;
a complainant who didn t want to be targeted by Soper and tories so did not want to take their complaint further, and Mallard is taking a hit for summarising the complaint accurately but prematurely in public;
the initial confidential findings getting a massive backtrack when employment and more serious options started being pursued
Mallard completely misread and conflated the allegations into something that nobody had described;
maybe some other possibility that hasn t occurred to me
If I were offered a million dollars if I could pick the correct scenario, I wouldn t be picking that Mallard thought an innocent but unwelcome hug was a serious sexual assault akin to rape.