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Diamars 10 augustus 2021
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di
nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Sabina Rugia Ras-Girigori
*11-07-1956 - †07-08-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia
despues.
“Ora bida bira un sufrimento ta bon pa
bai sosega”
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Teodosio Ho King Lin
Mihor conoci como: “Dr.Lin of Teo”
*14-04-1938 - †07-08-2021
Ta invita pa asisti na acto di despedida
y cremashon diahuebs 12 augustus 2021
for di 6’or di atardi pa 9’or di anochi na
Aurora Funeral Home
Suit: Brown failed to protect women
from sexual misconduct
(AP) - Brown University has systematically to sexual misconduct allegations violates numer-
and repeatedly failed to protect women from ous provisions of Title IX, the federal law barring
rape and other sexual misconduct, according gender-based discrimination, resulting in negli-
to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently gence, breach of contract, and “intentional inflic-
by four current and former female students. tion of emotional distress.”
The suit, which was filed last Friday in Providence They also say the university’s Title IX office is
federal court, alleges the Ivy League school in woefully undersized and that its training on sexual
Rhode Island actively prevented the reporting of misconduct policies and procedures do not meet
incidents of sexual violence and perpetuated a cul- federal standards.
ture of silence on campus.
The women named in the litigation are Chloe
One of the women said she was advised against Burns, a 2019 graduate; Taja Hirata-Epstein, a 2020
making a formal complaint after being sexually as- graduate; Katiana Soenen, a rising sophomore; and
saulted at a party hosted by rugby team members Carter Woodruff, who matriculated in 2016 but
because it happened off-campus, where officials went on medical leave and is seeking reinstate-
said it would be more difficult to hold someone ment. The Associated Press does not generally
accountable. identify alleged victims of sexual misconduct un-
less they decide to speak out publicly.
Another said the university found her alleged as-
sailant responsible for her sexual assault, but then If granted by a judge, their class action suit would
named him a speaker at the school’s commence- cover all women who attended Brown starting in
ment ceremony while he was appealing the case. 2018 and were survivors of sexual violence.
The woman said the university overturned his
assault finding and sanctioned her after she went Evans said the women want a court order compel-
public with her concerns about his role in com-
ling the university to comply with federal Title IX
mencement. The male student ultimately didn’t requirements, as well as any damages allowable
speak at graduation. under law.
Kim Evans, one of the lawyers representing the The lawsuit follows protests this spring led by a
women, said Monday that the women’s experienc- student group critical of the university’s handling
of sexual assault claims, said Elizabeth Bailey, an-
es dealing with university administrators are par-
ticularly shocking given they come years after the other lawyer representing the women. But the
#MeToo movement sparked a global reckoning on problems at the university stretch back to 1985, she
sexual misconduct. said, when survivors began a campaign of writing
the names of their perpetrators on the library bath-
“It’s hard enough for a survivor of abuse to come room walls, she said.
forward with their truth, even under the best cir-
cumstances,” she said. “But here we have Brown Other prominent colleges have recently settled
survivors who are met with apathy and indiffer- lawsuits dealing with widespread sexual assault on
ence, which makes a really hard situation even campus.
more traumatic.”
In March, the University of Southern California
Cass Cliatt, the university’s senior vice president agreed to an $852 million settlement with more
for communications, said Monday that the univer- than 700 women who have accused the college’s
sity is aware of the lawsuit but has not been for- longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse.
mally served. In 2019, Dartmouth College settled a federal law-
She said in an email that Brown has taken a “strate- suit with nine women who sued the Ivy League in-
gic and sustained approach” to confronting sexual stitution in New Hampshire over allegations that it
misconduct on campus, including recommenda- ignored years of harassment and assault by former
tions from the university’s sexual assault task force psychology department professors. That settle-
released in 2015. ment included some $14 million in compensation
for current and former students.
“Brown has made it an institutional priority to cre-
ate an environment in which no incident of sexual Meanwhile Brown, which was founded in 1764
violence is tolerated, and the experiences and per- and has more than 10,000 students, settled a fed-
spective of students and others impacted by sexual eral lawsuit in September challenging its decision
violence have been instrumental in informing the to reduce several women’s varsity sports teams, in-
actions we’ve taken,” she said. cluding fencing, golf and skiing to club status.
In a joint statement, the four women named in the
suit dismissed the school’s recent efforts as “be-
grudging, minor changes to policy and procedure”
that have “failed to ameliorate the rampant public
health crisis of sexual violence” on campus.
“The so-called systems of justice and support at
Brown, as well as the faculty, staff and administra-
tors who implement them, actively perpetuate and
exacerbate the injustices and harm they claim to
remedy,” the women said. “Survivors at Brown are
silenced, harmed, dismissed and discouraged from
seeking justice by the university.”
They say in their suit that Brown’s poor response