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Sexual harassment widespread in schools

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. — Grace endured two months of sexual harassment at school before she found the courage to tell her parents. A boy kept staring at Grace and making gross comments while masturbating beneath his jacket at the desk adjacent to hers. After hearing from her concerned father, the principal suspended the boy …

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Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Tracking down priests’ actions years later

WASHINGTON, D.C. — I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church. When I lived at home before college, my family and I went to church every Sunday. I got ashes on my forehead every Ash Wednesday. When I was accepted into Georgetown University, my delighted grandmother called it Catholic Harvard.  I knew I was Catholic, …

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Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Uncovering decades of abuse

NEW YORK — At the beginning of my sophomore year at the University of Michigan, I wrote a column for The Michigan Daily, UM’s student newspaper, about the overwhelming lack of diversity in classical music and the question of separating artists from their artwork. I study classical music composition; at the time, I was a …

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Posted on February 28, 2020

Female reporters refuse to remain silent about sexism

Allison Donahue had “just laughed it off” when sources made sexist comments about her, she told the Investigative Reporting Workshop. But the 22-year-old rookie reporter from Michigan drew the line in January when Michigan state Sen. Peter Lucio told her in front of a group of high school boys that they “could have a lot …

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