Halloween Shooting Leaves Four Wounded, Penn State Holds First Sex Abuse Prevention Conference

Students Disciplined for 'Straight But Supportive' T-Shirts. 20 students at Celina High School in Ohio were disciplined for wearing t-shirts that read, "I Support [Rainbow]...Express Yourself" and "Straight But Supportive". School Principal Phil Metz claimed that the shirts violated the school handbook because they were "political" in nature. However, one of the students involved noted online that "[s]tudents in the pro-life recruitment organization Students for Life, which meets regularly after school, are allowed to wear their shirts 'whenever they want.'" The students and the school both have lawyers, although it is clear from legal precedent that the students will likely prevail.[ThinkProgress]

Elizabeth Smart Praises Child Sex Abuse Conference Held By Penn State. Elizabeth Smart, the famous victim of kidnapping and sexual assault who was abducted in 2002 and found alive 9 months later, was the keynote speaker at an inaugural conference on child sex abuse held this week. She praised the conference, saying it was an "incredible opportunity to not only change the community but change the nation ... to change how we do things, how we look at victims and how we work around them." One year after the discovery of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of children, Penn State has pledged to work to prevent, research, and treat child sexual abuse. [Huffington Post]

Halloween Shooting at USC Leaves Four Wounded. Wednesday night, four people were wounded in a shooting on University of South Carolina's campus, just six months after the university's last shooting incident took the lives of two graduate students. This most recent instance of gun violence took place outside a large party hosted by a student group on campus, but neither the gunman nor the wounded were USC students."Everyone started running. I saw a guy who was shot in the leg. He was limping and screaming for his friends to help him. 'I got shot. Can someone give me a ride?' His friends were helping him walk [...] People were screaming and running away," said a USC student who witnessed the incident. [Los Angeles Times]

Custodians Rehired Following Student Protest of Layoffs. Last week, over 50 students and UC Berkeley community members protested the layoff of five custodians. The custodians work in Eshleman Hall, which will be undergoing demolition and renovation in the near future. The protest was led by AFSCME Local 3299, "the statewide UC service and patient care workers’ union". An organizer of the protest described the reasoning behind the layoffs, saying "Their rationale was, ‘We’re getting rid of the building, so get rid of workers.’” [The Daily Californian]



 

Sydney Hofferth is a Communications Intern for Campus Progress. You can follow her on twitter at @squidhoff10.

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