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Egyptian Protests Shed Light on Rape Epidemic
BY MARY STROKA Photo by Gigi Ibrahim from Cairo, Egypt [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons....
Jul 3, 20132 min read
Recent Media Focus on Rape Prevention
BY MARY STROKA How do we eliminate rape? Several articles published today were about various ideas of methods on how to lower the...
Jun 5, 20131 min read
Sticks and Stones . . . But Words Can Still Break You
BY NICKI JURINA This post is the first in a series on suicide and abuse prevention by Nicki Jurina, one of our newest social media...
Jun 4, 20134 min read
An Interview with "Nips" Matheson of Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA)
Perhaps the first thing you think of when you hear the word “bikers” is a quaint little cruiser bicycle with teal spokes, or maybe a...
Apr 1, 20134 min read
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.2: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." The first two posts about domestic abuse focused on Candace and Sam, two...
Mar 2, 20136 min read
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.1: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." The last post featured domestic abuse and the effects it had on Charlie’s...
Feb 23, 20133 min read
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.0: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." Why do people stay in abusive relationships? From the outside, it seems...
Feb 17, 20137 min read
Early Feminists on Abortion: A Still-Relevant Herstory
BY MARY KRANE DERR Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s were hardly the first to address abortion. Their 19th- and early 20th-century...
Oct 12, 20126 min read
Drawing Connections: Intimate Partner Violence, Poverty, and Abortion
BY JEN ROTH The consistent life ethic is traditionally seen as a way to draw connections among issues that do not seem related at first...
Oct 12, 20125 min read
Make it History: Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University of Steubenville
BY KEITH MICHAEL ESTRADA What does it mean to be "pro-life"? This is a question I asked myself when I first dived into the student...
Oct 12, 20123 min read
A Just Defense of Self
BY AIMEE MURPHY Photo by NMR Photography; some rights reserved. I promised this issue that I would expound a little greater upon the...
Jul 16, 20124 min read
On Date Rape: Responding To and Decreasing Sexual Violence in Our Communities
BY MARY STROKA There's a problem that plagues many campuses across the nation and around the globe. It's not an issue of low-quality...
Mar 30, 20124 min read
No Mad.
BY LISA GROVES No Mad. When I was six years old I deliberately dropped my brand new baby doll into a long-abandoned well in my parents'...
Dec 20, 20112 min read
Penn State: Evidence of a Larger Problem
BY AIMEE BEDOY The cult of celebrity reaches far and wide and covers a multitude of sins, it seems. At least in the United States, fans...
Dec 20, 20112 min read
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