Several swastikas have reportedly been found scrawled on the campus of Stanford University and the surrounding neighborhood of Palo Alto, California. “We do not know exactly when it occurred since the university has been on winter break closure since December 21st until today (Wednesday),” Bill Larson, a spokesman for the campus police, told the San…
Lewis Burik may not play in a single Stanford football game this season. At practice, the sophomore inside linebacker trains with everyone else. At games, Burik is on the sidelines, a walk-on to a football team ranked seventh in the country. But Burik, who was raised as a Reform Jew, with a Jewish mother and…
A former Stanford University swimmer was released from jail on Friday after serving just half of a six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, a sentence widely criticized as too lenient. Brock Turner, 20, left the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose shortly after 6 a.m. PDT (1300 GMT), just three months…
Former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner will be released on Friday after serving three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman near a fraternity party, a sentence that has ignited fierce debate over the way California defines and punishes rape. Turner’s sentence to months in county jail instead of years in state prison stoked international…
A Jewish teenager from London felt something was terribly unjust about senior citizens and other needy people being hit with unjust parking tickets. So he created a crusading ‘chatbot,’ an internet tool based on articial intelligence, to fight the powers that be. Joshua Browder, the creator of DoNotPay, told the Forward the elderly and disabled,…
A juror in the Stanford University sexual assault case wrote to the judge expressing his disappointment over what was seen by many as a very lenient sentence handed down to former student-athlete Brock Turner. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky is facing a recall campaign following public anger over his decision to sentence…
Students and rights groups plan to demonstrate at Stanford University’s commencement on Sunday to express outrage over the 6-month jail sentence handed to a former student convicted of sexual assault on the California campus, organizers said on Saturday. UltraViolet, a women’s rights group, said it commissioned a plane to fly over Stanford’s Palo Alto campus…
When Lauren Chief Elk heard the name of the judge whose sentence in the case of a former Stanford athlete accused of sexual assault drew outrage, something clicked. Five years earlier she had been a witness in a trial over which Aaron Persky presided that bore some striking similarities to the Stanford case, she said….
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