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JACKSON, Miss. — At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the 11 students in Carol Jussely's "Essential College Skills" class were talking about sex. Crammed into school chairs and clustered in groups of three or four, they leaned together to confer and then shouted out answers to trivia
sex
Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) — A current proposal by a federal agency has raised concerns that doctors may be punished for believing that there are only two genders, rooted in biological sex. The proposed rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says that it
progressive
WASHINGTON – At American University in the nation's capital, a division has emerged among the college's female students between those who regard themselves as progressive feminists and those who align themselves with feminism's more conservative wing. The controversy arose earlier this year when the university&
Massachusetts
AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College has responded to a raunchy wrongful-dismissal lawsuit by describing its allegations – that a supervisor urged female teaching assistants to have sex with students to boost enrollment in Spanish classes – as "frivolous," and by asserting that the lecturer who sued was legitimately let go. The
sex
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge refused to throw out the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby on Wednesday, sweeping aside a former district attorney's claim that he granted the comedian immunity from prosecution a decade ago. Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill issued the ruling after a
equality
Feb. 1, 2016 The NewBostonPost this month will tackle the topic of "Sex and gender on campus." This theme is broad and poses a vast array of questions on sexual mores, campus sexual assault, equality of the sexes, feminism, and academic disparities – to name just a few.
transgender
When Simone de Beauvoir's landmark book, "The Second Sex" landed on shelves in 1949, sex differences were clearly defined: people born male were men, and people born female were women. De Beauvoir's book challenged this assumption, writing, "One is not born, but rather
rape
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education published yet another story under the headline, "Should colleges be judging rape?" This article, like many others, delved into the complexities of real and fabricated accusations, the need to balance protection of victims with due process for the accused, administrator'
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