Domestic violence is sometimes referred to as intimate partner violence, which is what the CDC calls it. In the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey State Report 2010-2012, CDC researchers find that: In the U.S., 1 in 4 women (27.4%) and 1 in 9 men (11.0%) have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or…
This summer I interned at the Alice Paul Institute (API) in my hometown of Mount Laurel, New Jersey. API is set up at the exact house, known as Paulsdale, where Alice Paul was born and returned to during her days of campaigning for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century. For those who are unfamiliar…
Over the 1983-84 holiday break, Dickinson’s women’s basketball team traveled to Europe to compete. In a June 22, 1983 memo to Deans Allan and Goldberg, Coach Judy Yorio notes that the team “will be the first group to undertake such an endeavor.” Yorio made a compelling case for the need to “expand the educational experience…