Morning Metro: A Seven-Leaf Clover, Clifton Corridor Plan Approved, and Stealing Like an Artist
Decatur Metro | April 10, 2012- Decatur boy finds seven-leaf clover [Patch]
- MARTA green-lights Clifton Corridor plan, seeks fed funding for Stonecrest line [AJC]
- Park at Ponce and East Lake needs volunteers [East Lake Neighborhood]
- Portable classrooms coming to Inman Middle School [Patch]
- Dunwoody and Alpharetta consider growlers [AJC]
- 5 more sexual assaults reported at Emory [Emory Wheel]
- “Steal Like an Artist” author at Decatur Library Wednesday – Interview [AJC]
The Emory report attributes the rise in the reports of campus assaults of women to an increase in education and support for sexual assault survivors at Emory. To this Emory graduate it looks like Emory needs to contract with a group like Men Stopping Violence to begin to educate and socialize the male students.
+1 Million. People need to learn that no means no, that just because someone invites you back to their room/house (or comes with you back to yours) doesn’t give you license to do what you please, and that any sexual encounter that happens when one or both of the parties is too drunk to soberly & lucidly consent is rife with the possibility of criminal charges. Too many victims get the “s/he should’ve known better than to [fill in the blank]…”, which is why so much of these types of assaults go unreported.
I’m kind of bothered by Emory’s emphasis on the point that this cluster may be due to an increase in reporting. It may or may not be, hard to verify. But even one rape is too many.
For anyone interested the “final” APS redistricting proposal is on the web: http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/Page/413