Australia is currently being rocked by allegations by Brittany Higgins, 24, working for the then defense industry minister, Linda Reynolds, that she was raped at Parliament House by a male colleague in March 2019, Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, writes in an op-ed in The Guardian. While full details of the alleged crime have yet to come to light, Manne questions the way Reynolds and her office handled the incident.
“It is long past overdue to conceive of female victims as people in their own right, with human rights, rather than as some man’s somebody – his wife, mother, sister, daughter, and so on – and as mattering because of that,” Manne writes in the piece. “She is her own person, and a person is – or ought to be – inviolable by others’ acts of sexual violence.”
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From left, Xi Yang, PhD '10, senior lecturer of finance in the SC Johnson College of Business; Christine Ye; Christine Ye Award recipient Margaret E. Foster, doctoral candidate in communication; Cornelia Ye Award recipient Naman Agrawal, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and behavior; Cornelia Ye; and Derina Samuel, associate director of graduate student development at the Center for Teaching Innovation.
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Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD 1856 b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is 7 times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. WD 1856 b has methane and hazes in its atmosphere, which would give it a similar color to Saturn's moon Titan. The white dwarf formed from a star that died 5 billion years ago, and has been cooling ever since, giving it an orange colour similar to the Sun.
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Dressed in clean-room suits, the Warrior-Scholar Project’s STEM boot camp cohort toured the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
