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Tag: Sexual assault

Crime and Justice

Judge rejects meeting with lawmakers over ‘slap on the wrist’ for rapist

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 9:01 AM Jun 27, 2018
12

Some Wisconsin lawmakers want to meet with a judge who decided a three-year sentence for an Edina man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three women was fair. Read more →

Politics

Why it’s legal in Minnesota to grab a woman’s butt

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 8, 2018, 6:41 AM Mar 8, 2018
25

The state Senate is moving to close a loophole in the state’s sexual conduct law which grants an exception to people who grab someone’s butt as long as they still have their clothes on. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

Why do scandals keep happening at the U of M?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2017, 6:47 AM Jan 4, 2017
157

The firing of University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys reinforces a good piece of advice: Be careful what you tweet. And don’t thumb your noses at the people who sign your paycheck.

Claeys was a success on the field and really bad at social media off it. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

AP: Gophers players almost reinstated boycott over suspensions

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2016, 7:16 AM Dec 27, 2016
13

The Associated Press is reporting that the decision by the University of Minnesota football team to end its “boycott” to protest the suspension of 10 players alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman, was not as final as first reported. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Woman sexually assaulted 3 times: ‘Rape happens because some men are rapists’

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2016, 9:40 AM Jun 9, 2016
18

Minneapolis woman: Staying silent hasn’t made the emotional scars go away, she writes, ‘and it hasn’t held the men who victimized me responsible for what they did to and stole from me. I’ve realized all too late that our voices are our strongest asset.’ Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

Retired prof rips St. Olaf on sexual assault response

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 13, 2016, 8:30 AM Apr 13, 2016
44

Victims of sexual abuse and assault at St. Olaf in Northfield had hoped a meeting to address complaints that the school was ignoring them would begin to change things on campus, but after a closed meeting they say they’re ‘disheartened’ by the response.
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