Sexual Assault

opinion

GUEST COLUMN: The hero’s journey for male rape survivors

By Guest writer · Sunday, April 9,2023 4:14 p.m.

IU alum encourages male survivors to find healing and speak out.

student life

Community tells IU, Jacobs ‘time’s up’ for lack of follow through on sexual misconduct policies

By Cate Charron · Saturday, April 2,2022 9:07 p.m.

A protest was organized after an IDS investigation into a music student's sexual assault allegations.

Black Voices

Black Voices: Alice Sebold versus Anthony Broadwater

By Stefan Townes · Wednesday, Dec. 8,2021 9:52 a.m.

Sebold has sent the wrong man behind bars and 40 years later, he's proven innocent.

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crime & courts

October sexual battery reported at Eigenmann Hall

By Luzane Draughon · Monday, Nov. 29,2021 12:57 p.m.

The case is listed as open.

student lifebloomington

Experts, advocacy groups recommend changes to IUPD’s crime log policy

By Emily Brown · Wednesday, Oct. 13,2021 5:26 p.m.

IUPD does not always publish locations in its daily crime log.

IU, Middle Way House offer public safety resources to help women stay safe

By Sophie Suter · Thursday, April 8,2021 7:55 p.m.

IU offers a ride service so students don’t have to walk home alone.

Column: We need to hold celebrities and non-famous people equally accountable

By Rachel Choi · Thursday, March 25,2021 3:40 p.m.

Accountability goes beyond cancel culture.

IU releases 2019 campus climate survey data about sexual misconduct

By Cate Charron · Monday, May 18,2020 7:03 p.m.

Undergraduate women experienced an increase of non-consensual sexual touching from 29% to 42%.

They waited six weeks

By Hannah Alani · Tuesday, Dec. 6,2016 12:35 a.m.

IU found a total of seven alleged victims of a former ballet instructor.

The red zone

By Grace Palmieri · Friday, Dec. 2,2016 1:02 a.m.

Two years later, she still thinks about that night. Read the full story at idsnews.com/redzone

A question of consent

By Taylor Telford · Thursday, Dec. 1,2016 2:03 a.m.

One night, two IU students and the thin line between a hook-up and a rape.

Police investigate four connected break-ins south of campus

By Carley Lanich , Emily Miles and Hannah Alani · Thursday, Sept. 8,2016 9:30 p.m.

A masked man broke into six homes Monday and Tuesday.

COLUMN: It's not over til the assaulted lady sings

By Sarah Kissel · Wednesday, July 22,2015 8:26 p.m.

"Opera breathes. Sexual assault committed on stage is unbearably repulsive."

COLUMN: Columbia University president's disregard for rape activist deepens

By Sarah Kissel · Wednesday, May 27,2015 9:34 p.m.

On Tuesday May 19th, Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz became an alum of her prestigious university and solidified her status as the encapsulation of collegiate rape culture.

Emily Smith, 23, remembers the night she woke up in her bed to a man on top of her. In the months after, she withdrew from classes at Indiana University Bloomington, slept in her roommates’ bed and searched for control of the life she remembered before everything changed.“It’s not stranger danger," she said. "It’s your neighbor, it’s your friend. It’s the cute guy you met at the party who you’re really hitting it off with. It went further than you were comfortable with. You feel taken advantage of. You feel like you didn’t have a say in the matter."

Sexual assault: Caught in the gray zone

By Samantha Schmidt · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 10:32 p.m.

Hours are missing from her memory of that Saturday night.

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