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Akshaya Annapragada

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Challenging Rape Culture from the White House: A Lasting Legacy?

After years of working to build infrastructure to prevent campus sexual assault and alter campus cultures, the White House announced in July a further measure: President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, and cabinets will no longer visit schools that fail to make adequate progress toward eliminating sexual assault. The Obama administration placed much emphasis on combating campus sexual assault, and this latest policy is another component of that progressive legacy. But whether this legacy continues depends largely on who is elected the next commander-in-chief.

No Choice in Belfast

In April, a 21-year-old woman from Northern Ireland was given a three-month jail sentence for committing a crime considered heinous in her country. It...