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The Kalamazoo College community is invited to participate in person, virtually and through social media in a variety of events for National Denim Day on Wednesday, April 28, a day that supports survivors of sexual assault and sexual violence.
Patricia Giggins, a Los Angeles-based activist and executive director of Peace Over Violence, launched Denim Day in 1999 in response to an Italian Supreme Court decision that overturned a rape conviction. The court ruled that an 18-year-old woman who brought rape charges against a 45-year-old driving instructor must have consented to the assault because her jeans were tight. In other words, it was assumed that the assailant could not have removed her jeans without her help.
COVID-19 and LSU
There were 1,562 COVID-19 cases in the fall and 693 in the spring semester, according to the COVID-19 Reporting Dashboard. In the spring, the University administered over 10,000 COVID-19 tests. Since March 2020, the University reported that 6,478 students and 3,488 employees said they received vaccines.
The University began administering vaccines in March at Tiger Stadium. The state supplied LSU with Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Galligan announced in April that LSU could not require students to receive vaccines in order to attend LSU, but some faculty members called for LSU to rethink that decision.
Classes were held in person, in a hybrid format and fully online. According to the University, one-third of classes occurred in each format.
In a Monday Zoom meeting with staff from MU’s social justice centers, Maurice Gipson, the vice chancellor of inclusion, diversity and equity, assured attendees that an upcoming realignment will not directly result in the loss of their jobs.
“That’s just inaccurate,” Gipson said in the meeting. “No one is losing their job on June 30. That was never the intent. That was never the case … It was our intent to no longer have coordinators as the title, no coordinator in the title, but to shift to the different model where we have assistant directors and specialists.”
Social media rumors circulated, primarily on Twitter, after leaks from Thursday’s meeting suggested that the coordinators of MU’s social justice centers were being cut from their positions on June 30.
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Students protested in Traditions Plaza over MU s planned restructuring of the campus social justice centers on April 19, 2021
This is a developing story and will be updated.
A group of more than 100 MU students, faculty and advocates gathered this morning at MU s Traditions Plaza to protest a planned restructuring of key campus social justice organizations.
Campus centers affected by the changes are reported to be the five organizations in the social justice department on campus - including MU s Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Multicultural Center (MCC), and the Women s Center.