Universities looking for answers to ‘intimate partner’ violence

By Scott Calvert, Tricia Bishop

“Every new student at the University of Virginia attends an orientation where they break into small groups to discuss sexual consent and respect. October brings a flurry of public events pegged to Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and students are confronted with ubiquitous "red flag" posters. Then in April it's the weeklong Take Back the Night program, with students sharing their own harrowing stories of abuse.”

“The inadequacy of those anti-violence strategies materialized in graphic detail last week, with the discovery of 22-year-old Cockeysville native Yeardley Love dead in her off-campus apartment, allegedly murdered at the hand of a former boyfriend who acknowledges kicking in her bedroom door. Police say they are investigating the role that alcohol might have played in the killing and are exploring reports that the accused, George Huguely, had a history of violence and drunkenness…”

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