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Reported Domestic Violence Cases Rise in Utah

By Jamie Faux, News Writer November 1, 2023

  In the past, statistics have shown that around 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in Utah will experience domestic violence at some point in their life. Now, increased reports on abuse reveal that those...

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U Works to Open Conversations about Sexual Assault and Awareness

By Stevie Shaughnessey, Home Stretch Producer, Host April 17, 2023

  Over the past few years, the University of Utah has worked to create a safe space for survivors of sexual assault on campus and is continuing to do so for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This...

Maddie Hair (center) is running for ASUU president with Hailee Fell (right) and Jasmine Aguilar (left).

ASUU Elections: The Hair Ticket

By Stevie Shaughnessey, Home Stretch Producer, Host January 30, 2023

  Maddie Hair is a junior majoring in psychology, economics, political science, and health, society and policy, and is running alongside Jasmine Aguilar-Lopez and Hailee Fell. Hair has wanted...

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U Staff Recognize Male Victims of Domestic Violence

By Stevie Shaughnessey, Home Stretch Producer, Host November 20, 2022

  When his girlfriend snapped one day about two years ago, Salt Lake City man Josh Murray was physically abused. He told Fox 13 news that the way he saw "the woman he knew and loved for [over 10]...

Taylor VanderToolen answers a question at the town hall meeting for his ASUU presidential ticket on Feb. 7, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Hinckley Institute livestream)

Kincart: Can the VanderToolen Ticket Create Effective Change?

By Sydney Kincart, Print Chief, Opinion Writer February 7, 2022

  On Friday, Feb. 5, The VanderToolen ticket announced their candidacy for the ASUU Student Body Presidency. Their ticket is comprised of Taylor VanderToolen (President candidate), Ashlee Roberts...

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Kincart: You and an Unsafe Campus

By Sydney Kincart, Print Chief, Opinion Writer October 4, 2021

  The 2019 University of Utah Annual Security and Fire Safety Report stated that 20 instances of rape, 21 instances of burglary, 18 instances of motor vehicle theft and 62 instances of...

Protesters march to the John R. Park Building on University of Utah campus on Sept. 3, 2020. (The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Weglinski: The U Owes Us a Safer Campus

By Sonia Weglinski, Opinion Writer January 7, 2021

  The University of Utah recently released the 2020 campus safety report. This annual report is meant to offer transparency and standardized data on campus crime to the public. This year’s findings...

UnSafe U protesters gather at the Public Safety Building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City to protest the actions of officers involved in the Lauren McCluskey case on Aug. 6, 2020. (Chronicle archives)

Campus Safety Alerts and their Implications

By Ivana Martinez and Kayleigh Silverstein October 27, 2020

  Every day Grace Mason, like so many, checks their phone — the notifications, the news, the happenings of their friends — when they get the alert.  Mason, a health society and policy and...

UnSafe U protesters gather at the Public Safety Building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City to protest the actions of officers involved in the Lauren McCluskey case on Aug. 6, 2020.

Title IX: The Changes and the Culture

By Ivana Martinez and Kayleigh Silverstein October 13, 2020

  On Aug. 14 the new Title IX changes went into effect on campus, the final rule was drafted earlier in May by the Department of Education and Education Secretary Besty DeVos. Title IX, is a...

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Poma: What is Consent? Utah Needs a Clearer Definition of it.

By Sasha Poma, Assistant Opinion Editor March 16, 2020

  Rep. Angela Romero’s H.B. 213 Consent Language Amendments passed the Utah House and the Senate during this year’s general session and made important clarifications about consent. Unfortunately,...

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