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Peeping Tom pleading not guilty

Peeping Tom pleading not guilty

Deborah Wilber February 28, 2019

The 36-year-old Weber State University student and registered sex offender has plead not guilty to eight counts of voyeurism. Between Dec. 12, 2018, and Dec. 19, 2018, Anthony Ray Sunford was captured...

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Poet laureate finds creativity in tragedy

Tori Waltz October 26, 2018

“What is the power of art to represent some of the worst things that can happen to us?” Paisley Rekdal, a University of Utah english professor and esteemed poet, asked the audience at a poetry...

The Walk of No Shame is supposed to be a protest against the dismissal and silencing of victims of sexual assault. (Hillary Reilly)

Survivors of sexual assault march to the capitol in protest

Hillary Reilly September 28, 2018

In downtown Salt Lake City, The Walk of No Shame, a march toward the state capitol in protest of the lack of justice for victims of sexual assault took over the streets on Sep. 22. During 2017, the #MeToo...

Statistics show that most victims of sexual assault know their attackers and that 85 to 90 percent of assaults are alcohol related. Sexual assault victims at Tinker can call 734-SARC, which is a 24-hour hotline. (Air Force photo illustration by Margo Wright)

Women’s Center confidentiality status furthers fight against sexual assault

Briana Whatcott September 15, 2017

The Women's Center's recent change to confidentiality status furthers the efforts of Weber State University to protect victims of sexual assault. Before this change, students who came to the Women’s...

Open book against grunge background (graphicstock.com)

The darker side of English literature

Nic Muranaka September 1, 2017

As a note: this column will be discussing material some readers might find distressing, disturbing or traumatizing. In this column, I delve into literature which focuses on extremely dark aspects of sex...

Digital news editor Rachel Piper, left; reporters Jessica Miller, Erin Alberty and Alex Stuckey; along with Managing Editor Sheila McCann celebrate winning the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. (Francisco Kjolseth, The Salt Lake Tribune)

WSU alumna, Salt Lake Tribune win Pulitzer Prize for campus rape coverage

Ezekiel Lee April 11, 2017

Weber State University alumna and former editor-in-chief of The Signpost Jessica Schreifels Miller, along with The Salt Lake Tribune staff, won a Pulitzer Prize on April 10 for Local Reporting in their...

Women march in Montreal for a Take Back the Night protest for womens rights. WSU Womens Center is holding its second Take Back the Night event on April 14. (Source: Howl Arts Collective / flickr / https://www.flickr.com/photos/howlcollective/11143099765)

Sexual assault survivors and allies hold fast and ‘Take Back the Night’

Jeweliette Cordero April 9, 2017

The battle against sexual assault on campus continues on April 14 as the Women’s Center at Weber State University hosts “Take Back the Night,” its second annual march against sexual assault. ...

Weber State University Police Department Chief Dane LeBlanc listens to Lillian Llanos in 2015, a WSU student at the time, and the importance of students safety from sexual violence. (The Signpost Archives)

Know your Title IX rights: Stay safe on campus

Ashton Corsetti April 2, 2017

  Sex discrimination and sexual violence are pressing issues on college campuses, but Weber State University has established resources for victims. Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments...

Painted T-shirts addressing violence against women hang along a clothesline above the Union atrium. The shirts were made for The Clothesline Project, hosted by Weber State Universitys Womens Center. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

Clothesline Project draws attention to effects of violence

Rachel Badali October 4, 2016

Dozens of T-shirts are hanging on clotheslines in the Shepherd Union Atrium and Stewart Wasatch Hall, each painted with a message to honor survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The string of...

Ted Bunch, co-founder of A Call to Men, speaks against sexual assault at Weber State Universitys Diversity Symposium in Wildcat Theater on Thursday, Sept 22. (Dalton Flandro / The Signpost)

Diversity Symposium: Breaking down the “Man Box”

Alexis Rague September 25, 2016

People left with a new perspective on boots Thursday morning after attending the Third Annual Diversity Symposium at Weber State.That’s right. Boots. During his speech, “Preventing Sexual Assault:...

(Maddy Van Orman / The Signpost)

Be your own Batman

Alexandra Harris June 27, 2016

As the gavel came down in the Stanford rape case, fury ignited across the nation. The crime was heinous, the defendant and his family perpetuated the trauma with callous and unapologetic statements, and...

WSU student alleges off-campus rape

January 28, 2015

A female Weber State University student has reported she was raped in a neighborhood between campus and the Dee Events Center by multiple attackers during the first week of the semester. The Ogden City...

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