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Former Basketball Star Committed to Jail on Sexual Assault Charge

By Karena Landler January 25, 2019

Security footage of Victor Page, a former Georgetown University basketball player, assaulting and attempting to rape his girlfriend’s 17 year-old daughter before neighbors intervened surfaced on TMZ...

Carmen Livesay (COL 17) as protagonist Lexi and Katherine Pietro (COL 17) as her best friend Jessie
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Black Theatre Ensemble Haunts With ‘Hookman’

By Kathryn Baker April 3, 2017

From Georgetown’s Black Theatre Ensemble comes the hauntingly thought-provoking “Hookman.” Adapted from the show by playwright Lauren Yee, it follows Georgetown freshman Lexi, played by Carmen...

Sony: Don’t Let Kesha’s Career Die Young

By Femi Sobowale February 26, 2016

For the past week, and for the first time in years, pop singer Kesha, best known for hit singles such as “Tik Tok” and “Die Young,” has been plastered across every form of social media I have visited....

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Student activists, including author Zoe Dobkin (SFS 16), back left, carry a mattress during Octobers Carry the Weight event, a day of sexual assault awareness at college campuses across the country.

I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors

By Zoe Dobkin and Willa Murphy July 21, 2015

In the spring of 2013, Willa Murphy was violently raped by a fellow Georgetown student. It was such a traumatic experience that it took over a year after her rape before she was able to tell anyone,...

What Rape at UVA and Domestic Abuse in the NFL Tell Us About Greed and Society

By Laura Wagner December 3, 2014

On Wednesday Nov. 19, a widely circulated Rolling Stone article told the story of a University of Virginia student’s brutal gang rape in a fraternity house. On Wednesday Nov. 19, the NBA suspended the...

Perpetuating a Cultural Standard

Perpetuating a Cultural Standard

By Kate Riga November 26, 2014

The recent Rolling Stone article about sexual assault at the University of Virginia has sent the Internet into a raging tailspin. Again. Everyone is disgusted by the brutality, shocked at the nonchalance...

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The New Normal of Digital Age Harrassment

By Kate Riga September 15, 2014

Earlier this month, a 16-year old girl was brutally gang-raped in India. One man held a gun to her head while another filmed the attack with his cellphone. Afterward, the men threatened the girl with...

Rape Reporting Rises After Definition Change

By Maddy Moore September 5, 2014

The Metropolitan Police Department reported a significant increase in reported rapes last year, coinciding with the department changing its definition of rape to match FBI-Uniform Crime Reporting’s definition...

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Defining the Culture of Sexual Assault

By Sophia Yang July 4, 2014

Erin Cavalier, a rising junior at Catholic University, recently spoke to The Washington Post about being a victim of sexual assault. When it happened, she brought it to Catholic's administration, which,...

The Danger of Our Rape Culture

By Meagan Kelly March 28, 2013

When it first occurred to me to write a viewpoint on the Steubenville rape case, I initially backed away from the idea. How much more could I say that hasn’t already been said? What more could I argue...

FBI: Violent Crimes Down, Forcible Rape Up in DC

By Annie Chen and Anne Skomba September 23, 2011

While the District saw a moderate reduction in 2010 violent crime levels, reports of forcible rape jumped 25 percent, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report released on Monday. Forcible rapes numbered...

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