Emma Johnson

Stuart Croft blogs on university sexual violence

University of Warwick Vice-Chancellor Stuart Croft has published a blog tackling the topic of sexual violence at UK universities, including at Warwick. The blog, entitled “Beyond Zellick”, was published on Monday 10 October and particularly attacks the Zellick Report, a 1994 publication that still guides how universities treat sexual violence...
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Posted Oct. 15, 2016

Why do we protect rapists?

It is difficult to know where to start when looking at the Stanford University rape case. The circumstances which have followed show just how incapable we are to deal with sexual violence. I find it terrifying that a rapist is being presented with such pity, and you should should be...
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Posted Jul. 3, 2016

To stay or not to stay with the NUS?

By now it should be no huge shock that Warwick are having a referendum on whether or not to remain a part of the NUS. Great. First Brexit and now this. As if I didn’t have enough choices to make already. Waltzing around the mean streets of campus or the feeds...
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Posted May. 18, 2016

Alternative study spaces

It is a commonly known fact that the library is a graveyard of fun, happiness and love during third term. I daren’t even look at the building for too long while I pass by on my way to the Humanities building. Therefore it has, over the last year or so,...
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Posted May. 18, 2016

Reader’s Response: ‘I’m just as valid as a man’

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a student who has always experienced comprehensive co-ed schooling, I can see that ‘male’ subjects are not a product of mixed schooling, but rather they are a norm created by society – these specialisations were around far before mixed education was standard after all. Supposedly ‘female’ subjects are taught...
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Posted Feb. 29, 2016